Congress on Steroids Congress on Steroids
When appearing before the House Government Reform Committee last week, Mark McGwire didn't want to talk about his past. It was an appropriate place to develop historical amnesia. ...
Mar 22, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Congress Fails to Function Congress Fails to Function
The speed with which the Congress leapt to intervene in the Florida right-to-die case of Terry Schiavo might create the impression that the US House of Representatives is a functi...
Mar 21, 2005 / John Nichols
Losing Ground Losing Ground
Black farmers and the agrarian culture they embody are rapidly disappearing.
Mar 20, 2005 / Feature / Habiba Alcindor
Baghdad Under Siege Baghdad Under Siege
A growing detainee population, but still no control--two years after the US invasion, the war continues.
Mar 18, 2005 / Feature / David Enders
Sweet Victory:Taking Back the Campuses Sweet Victory:Taking Back the Campuses
For all the talk of left-wing bias in academia, little notice has been given to the right's growing influence on America's college campuses. As part of the conservative message ma...
Mar 18, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Blogging, Journalism and Credibility Blogging, Journalism and Credibility
Journalists, bloggers, news executives, media scholars and librarians try to make sense of the new media environment.
Mar 17, 2005 / Feature / Rebecca MacKinnon
Two Years Later Two Years Later
Last week we featured a series of of antiwar events being planned by Nation readers in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania and in Memphis, Tennessee to mark this weekend's second an...
Mar 17, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
Invisible Women Invisible Women
Women don't shout. Women don't like politics. Women shrink from intellectual debate. Women don't try.
Mar 17, 2005 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Three-Card Monte and the One-Party State Three-Card Monte and the One-Party State
How lionlike the Democrats sound as they circle around Social Security, roaring their defiance!
Mar 17, 2005 / Column / Alexander Cockburn