Stop the NRA Stop the NRA
The National Rifle Association recently targeted hundreds of organizations and individuals for having the temerity to have "lent their names and notoriety" to the "anti-gun cause...
Nov 25, 2003 / Peter Rothberg
In the Driftway In the Driftway
This essay, from the November 25, 1931, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published, c...
Nov 25, 2003 / The Editors
GOP Scare Tactics GOP Scare Tactics
Want to see some thuggish Republican fear-mongering? Check out the GOP's first ad for the 2004 election, which starts running Sunday in Iowa. It accuses Democratic presidential c...
Nov 25, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Ann Coulter’s Religious War Ann Coulter’s Religious War
Republicans and conservatives say the darnest things. First, Ann Coulter. Don't think I am obsessing over here just because this is my second mentio...
Nov 24, 2003 / David Corn
Wal-Mart’s Big City Blues Wal-Mart’s Big City Blues
The mega-retailer has set its sights on the urban market, but the living-wage movement is putting up a fight.
Nov 24, 2003 / Feature / Dan Levine
Alabama on My Mind Alabama on My Mind
The weblog below was originally posted on November 2. We received some powerful responses, which convinced us to re-post the article, a look at why people frequently vote against...
Nov 22, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Reader’s Mailbag Reader’s Mailbag
I read with interest Katrina vanden Heuvel's weblog in which she laments the recent decision by Alabama voters to vote down a referendum that would shift taxes from the "folks" t...
Nov 22, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
John Berger, best known for the essay collection Ways of Seeing, is not a timid writer. His oeuvre comprises novels, poems, criticism and plays.
Nov 21, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
Trade Ministers Get Out of Dodge Trade Ministers Get Out of Dodge
The final FTAA declaration essentially lays out a road map for a free-trade non-agreement.
Nov 21, 2003 / Feature / Sarah Anderson
The Bubble The Bubble
To Londoners, even many who did not oppose the war, Bush's visit felt like an assertion of absolute, arrogant power.
Nov 21, 2003 / Feature / Maria Margaronis