Is That All There Is? Is That All There Is?
It's hard to resist the misery of V.S. Naipaul's late fiction, hard not to surrender to its bleak and wary authority.
Dec 9, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Michael Wood
Subcontinental Homesick Blues Subcontinental Homesick Blues
Nearly twenty years ago, in a village in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, a young woman called Roop Kanwar was burned to death at her husband's funeral pyre.
Dec 9, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Siddhartha Deb
Lessons for Labor Lessons for Labor
What unions did right--and wrong--in the 2004 election.
Dec 9, 2004 / Feature / David Moberg
New Power for ‘Old Europe’ New Power for ‘Old Europe’
The EU is an emerging geopolitical force that corporate America must reckon with.
Dec 9, 2004 / Feature / Mark Schapiro
Letters Letters
SUCH, SUCH WERE THE JOYS... Washington, DC
Dec 9, 2004 / Our Readers, Jeremy Bernstein, and Bruce Robbins
Guarantee the Right to Vote Guarantee the Right to Vote
As US Rep. John Conyers, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, chaired Tuesday's hearing on irregularities in the presidential voting in Ohio on November 2, the ...
Dec 8, 2004 / John Nichols
Holding Torturers Accountable Holding Torturers Accountable
In a historic effort to hold US officials accountable for acts of torture, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and four Iraqi citizens recently filed a criminal complaint ...
Dec 8, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
Operation Self-Destruction Operation Self-Destruction
This article, from the August 26, 1968, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published on...
Dec 8, 2004 / Feature / Karl M. Purnell
Webletters Webletters
A MORAL MINIMUM WAGE, by Peter Dreier and Kelly Candaele
Dec 8, 2004 / Our Readers
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
I've never had a strong appetite for travel literature.
Dec 7, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Stacy Torres