The Soccer Star and the President The Soccer Star and the President
Who is Diego Maradona, and how did a former Argentinian soccer star become the nemesis of an American President?
Nov 8, 2005 / Feature / Dave Zirin
Lying with Intelligence Lying with Intelligence
A newly declassified Defense Intelligence Agency document discrediting reports of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq disproves the Bush Administration's claim that they went to w...
Nov 8, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer
Swift Boat Attack on Bernie Sanders Swift Boat Attack on Bernie Sanders
The latest polls from Vermont show that U.S. Representative Bernie Sanders, the only independent member of the House, has a dramatic lead in the race for that state's open U.S. Se...
Nov 8, 2005 / John Nichols
Gas Price-gouging or Business as Usual? Gas Price-gouging or Business as Usual?
As the Senate opens hearings this week calling energy execs to account for their windfall profits on gasoline and natural gas, the question must be asked: Is this price-gouging or ...
Nov 7, 2005 / Feature / Nicholas von Hoffman
Passing the Torch Passing the Torch
Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel takes on the role of publisher and general partner at the magazine, and Victor Navasky becomes publisher emeritus and a member of the magazine's...
Nov 7, 2005 / The Editors
¿Cómo Se Dice ‘Spin’? ¿Cómo Se Dice ‘Spin’?
George Bush had a tough time of it last weekend in Argentina. Mass demonstrations of opposition to the President's trade and economic policies greeted his every move. And even in...
Nov 7, 2005 / John Nichols
The Wrong Journalistic Decision The Wrong Journalistic Decision
If one needed more reason to criticize the Washington Post's decision to withhold information, at the government's request, about the CIA's network of prisons in Eastern Europe f...
Nov 7, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Chávez and Maradona Lead Massive Rebuke of Bush Chávez and Maradona Lead Massive Rebuke of Bush
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and Argentine soccer hero Diego Maradona led thousands in a massive rebuke of George W. Bush, his trade policies and his neoconservative age...
Nov 5, 2005 / Feature / Jordana Timerman
The Virginia GOP’s Dirty Money The Virginia GOP’s Dirty Money
Republican candidates in Virginia do a lot of posturing on being tough on crime--but behind their self-righteous political ads, there is a hidden history of racism, questionable fu...
Nov 4, 2005 / Feature / Max Blumenthal
Sheryl Swoopes: Out of the Closet–and Ignored Sheryl Swoopes: Out of the Closet–and Ignored
WNBA star Sheryl Swoopes has just come out of the closet. But why didn't anyone care?
Nov 4, 2005 / Dave Zirin