9/11 in a Movie-Made World 9/11 in a Movie-Made World
What if the Twin Towers hadn't collapsed? Would the Bush Administration have so easily advanced its fear-inspired "war on terror" without the images that played on a culture's secr...
Sep 10, 2006 / Feature / Tom Engelhardt
Hold the Schadenfreude Hold the Schadenfreude
David Stockman, the controversial wunderkind of the Reagan revolution25 years ago, is back in hot water again. As the WashingtonPost reported Friday, SEC lawyers notified Reagan'...
Sep 8, 2006 / The Nation
GOP Loves Black People? GOP Loves Black People?
Has the Republican Party suddenly caught a case of jungle fever? Thisyear Republicans will most likely run three African-Americans instatewide elections: Kenneth Blackwell (for g...
Sep 8, 2006 / The Nation
It’s Not a ‘War’ on Terror It’s Not a ‘War’ on Terror
It's time to stop calling the post 9/11 struggle against terrorism a "war." The struggle against stateless terrorists is not the same thing. And framing it as a war was a consciou...
Sep 8, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Ho-hum, Another $63 Billion Ho-hum, Another $63 Billion
How humdrum can you get? My hometown paper, the New York Times, today reported that the Senate had approved "$63 billion More for War in Iraq" in a 7-paragraph Associated Press p...
Sep 8, 2006 / The Nation
Cashing In on Catastrophe Cashing In on Catastrophe
Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is now using his public image, burnished by 9/11, to conceal crooked business deals and reap handsome profits from a national tragedy.
Sep 8, 2006 / Feature / Wayne Barrett and Dan Collins
Knock on Wood Knock on Wood
The Bush Administration's illegitimate use of renditions, disappearances, torture and an illegal war has fostered the growth of a loose-knit global band of fanatics willing to do u...
Sep 8, 2006 / David Cole
Armitage Confesses–and Prompts a Question for Rove Armitage Confesses–and Prompts a Question for Rove
On Thursday, Richard Armitage went on CBS News and confessed: he was the o...
Sep 8, 2006 / David Corn
A Most Ridiculous Lawsuit A Most Ridiculous Lawsuit
Back when watching Bill O'Reilly was still fun -- before he became a creepy, obsessive nativist -- I enjoyed a feature called "The Most Ridiculous Item of the Day." (He's become s...
Sep 7, 2006 / The Nation
Bin Laden Determined… the Prequel Bin Laden Determined… the Prequel
Recently, researching a Nation piece (9/11 in a Movie-Made World) on the response to the attacks of 2001, I read the New York Times (as well as other newspapers) for September 12-...
Sep 7, 2006 / The Nation