Avoiding Dean’s Mistakes Avoiding Dean’s Mistakes
Barack Obama's victory in the hard-fought Democratic primary for an open US Senate seat from Illinois has instantaneously made him a political star. CNN analysts were calling the ...
Mar 19, 2004 / John Nichols
Self-Determining Haiti Self-Determining Haiti
This essay, from the August 28, 1920, 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 H...
Mar 18, 2004 / Feature / James Weldon Johnson
One Year Later One Year Later
On the heels of yesterday's car-bomb attack against a central Baghdad hotel, Iraqi insurgents launched more deadly attacks today in advance of the first anniversary of the US inv...
Mar 18, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
Remembering Rachel Corrie Remembering Rachel Corrie
Why has Corrie's killing gone unchallenged by the United States?
Mar 18, 2004 / Feature / Adam Shapiro
The New Critic The New Critic
The American foreign affairs establishment seems finally to have gotten worried about the antics of the Boy Emperor.
Mar 18, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Chalmers Johnson
Moses Goes Down Moses Goes Down
If upon reading the first sentence of Moses Isegawa's debut novel, Abyssinian Chronicles, in an Amsterdam bookstore a few years back, I quickly re-read it a few times and committ...
Mar 18, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Matt Steinglass
The Secret Sharer The Secret Sharer
Although the epigraph of Damon Galgut's novel is taken from Chekhov, it is the ghost of Graham Greene that hovers most palpably over The Good Doctor, and even in the cadence of i...
Mar 18, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Claire Messud
Accidental Friends Accidental Friends
"One does not jail Voltaire." So responded the president of France to calls that Jean-Paul Sartre be arrested for backing an independent Algeria.
Mar 18, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Russell Jacoby
Whatever It Takes Whatever It Takes
Exxon has used the legal system to avoid paying damages for the Valdez spill.
Mar 18, 2004 / Feature / Ashley Shelby
The Battle Over the Pledge The Battle Over the Pledge
It's offended people from the start; now the Supreme Court will wade in--again.
Mar 18, 2004 / Feature / Elisabeth Sifton