How Not to Spot a Terrorist How Not to Spot a Terrorist
The NSA's use of artificial intelligence for "data-mining" surveillance is not only constitutionally illegal, but a technological fantasy. Why aren't the Democrats challenging it?
Feb 9, 2006 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Government’s the Problem Government’s the Problem
Complicated drug plans are the result of promises fulfilled.
Feb 9, 2006 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Democratic Alarms in PA Democratic Alarms in PA
Robert Casey Jr.'s endorsement of Samuel Alito could cost him the support of Pennsylvania Democrats and illustrates the perils of early intervention by DC Democrats in Senate races...
Feb 9, 2006 / John Nichols
Who Killed the Miners? Who Killed the Miners?
Recent mining disasters demonstrate that the Bush Administration should be called to account for replacing federal mine regulators, who were identifying hazards and meeting require...
Feb 9, 2006 / Erik Reece
Jose Bove’s Not Welcome in Bush’s USA Jose Bove’s Not Welcome in Bush’s USA
Few figures have contributed more to the debate about corporate globalization than Jose Bove, the French farmer whose dismantling of a McDonald's restaurant that was under constru...
Feb 9, 2006 / John Nichols
The Right to Be Offended The Right to Be Offended
The question raised by cartoons deemed offensive to Islam has never been whether or not to draw the line but where it should be drawn.
Feb 9, 2006 / Gary Younge
The Cartoon Bomb The Cartoon Bomb
The controversy over cartoons is all about power: the power of images; the power that divides Muslim and non-Muslim Europeans, the West and the Middle East; the power of radical Is...
Feb 9, 2006 / The Editors
Letters Letters
Two recent Nation offerings have brought in huge amounts of mail: Elizabeth Holtzman's "The Impeachment of George W.
Feb 9, 2006 / Our Readers
A Letter to the American Left A Letter to the American Left
The American left is in a semi-comatose state, thanks to the striking ideological transformation wrought by its neoconservative battalions.
Feb 9, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Bernard-Henri Lévy
Reversing ‘Right to Work’ Reversing ‘Right to Work’
Labor activists in Idaho hope to repeal repressive "Right To Work" laws and educate a new generation on the history of labor struggles.
Feb 8, 2006 / Feature / Sasha Abramsky