Defending Nat Turner Defending Nat Turner
In response to Herbert Aptheker's critical review of The Confessions of Nat Turner the late William Styron wrote a passionate letter to the editor in defense of his novel.
Nov 3, 2006 / William Styron
The Case for Engagement The Case for Engagement
If US officials stopped their saber-rattling over Iran's nuclear ambitions and began to negotiate directly, they would have an eye-opening experience.
Nov 3, 2006 / Feature / Scott Ritter
Bring Democracy Home Bring Democracy Home
To repair our broken voting system, declare Election Day a holiday, establish national election standards and require reliable voting machines and a paper trail.
Nov 3, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Shut ‘Em Up Shut ‘Em Up
Shut 'em up – that's the tried-and-true policy of the Bush gang when it comes to people whose views contradict their own. Scientists want to speak out on global warming? Mu...
Nov 2, 2006 / The Nation
The Baker Report, Leaked! The Baker Report, Leaked!
Stay the course? Cut and run? Cut the crap? What will former Secretary of State James A. Baker III propose after the midterm elections, when the bipartisan Iraq Study Group reveals...
Nov 2, 2006 / Evan Eisenberg
Extraordinary Rendition, Deluxe Extraordinary Rendition, Deluxe
The evil nature of our enemies has, it turns out, certain advantages -- at least when secret imprisonment and torture are at stake. The Bush administration has proved adamantly un...
Nov 2, 2006 / The Nation
Bullish Democrats Bullish Democrats
Senator Chuck Schumer, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC), held a press conference with reporters this afternoon and was absolutely bullish about the ...
Nov 2, 2006 / The Nation
Dear John Kerry: Shut Up! Dear John Kerry: Shut Up!
With all due respect to my Notion colleagues, John Kerry is a pathetic loser --indeed, an almost compulsive gaffe-maker -- and we shouldn't waste time and energy defending him. He...
Nov 2, 2006 / The Nation
Down by Law Down by Law
Todd Snider has a songwriter's flair for the absurd--and he's morphed from a barroom wiseacre to a keen observer of life at the workaday fringes of Bush's America.
Nov 2, 2006 / Books & the Arts / K. Leander Williams
In God’s Country In God’s Country
The secular left should think twice before casting religious people as its foes. After all, alienating potential allies and confining ourselves to a small sect of like-minded belie...
Nov 2, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Eyal Press