Heck of a Job, Maliki! Heck of a Job, Maliki!
In some ways, amid the internecine bloodletting, torture, spiking American casualties, death-dealing confusion, general mayhem, and especially the recent coup rumors that Robert D...
Oct 20, 2006 / The Nation
The Queen Is Dead The Queen Is Dead
Reviews from the New York Film Festival, including Marie Antoinette, Climate, 49 Up and more.
Oct 20, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Lamont vs. Lieberman, Round 2 Lamont vs. Lieberman, Round 2
Lamont now lags behind Liebermans, but the Connecticut electorate is so volatile that the outcome is far from certain.
Oct 20, 2006 / Feature / Bruce Shapiro
Show Him the Money Show Him the Money
Diversity can be cringe-making, arbitrary, insincere and sappy. But take it away and you won't get more equality--you'll only get more privilege.
Oct 20, 2006 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Soldiers of Conscience Soldiers of Conscience
A peace activist argues that if soldiers like Lieut. Ehren Watada succeed in convincing the courts that they have a right to refuse to fight in unjust and illegal wars, the world w...
Oct 19, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Staughton Lynd
Salvaging Their Future Salvaging Their Future
You still sometimes hear periodic laments from progressives over the apathy of today's students in the face of major political turmoil. The Nation's investigations, however, have ...
Oct 19, 2006 / Peter Rothberg
Armitage’s 5 Year Plan Armitage’s 5 Year Plan
Former Deputy Secretary of State (and Valerie Plame leaker) Richard Armitage called for the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq yesterday. Sort of. "We notify the Iraqis that we're...
Oct 19, 2006 / The Nation
Death in the Family Death in the Family
Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost represents one man's search to find the truth about himself, his family and the Holocaust.
Oct 19, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Gideon Lewis-Kraus
A Rebel in Defense of Tradition A Rebel in Defense of Tradition
As composer Steve Reich turns 70, he is winning recognition from the classical establishment for the creativity and power ever-present in his music.
Oct 19, 2006 / Books & the Arts / David Schiff
The Moral Minimum The Moral Minimum
As the lagging minimum wage is being turned into a moral issue instead of an economic one, states are beginning to act where the federal government has not.
Oct 19, 2006 / Feature / Sasha Abramsky