What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
I'd like to say that I came across the poet Agha Shahid Ali of my own accord, browsing through the shelves of a bookshop or library and taking immediately to his finely structure...
Sep 8, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Priyanka Motaparthy
Iraqmire: Bush Gets Desperate Iraqmire: Bush Gets Desperate
Television viewers on Sunday night had a choice of two George W. Bushes. They could see him standing tall on a Showtime docudrama on 9/11 (produced by a pro...
Sep 8, 2003 / David Corn
Richard Perle: The Price of Arrogance? Richard Perle: The Price of Arrogance?
So, Richard Perle--a man whose arrogance knows no limits, whose countless op-eds and television appearances about the imminent threat Iraq posed to the US deceived the American p...
Sep 6, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Help Save Overtime Pay Help Save Overtime Pay
Lower pay, longer hours and unpredictable work schedules are some of the increased challenges working families will face if the Bush Administration is able to pass its proposed c...
Sep 6, 2003 / Peter Rothberg
When H.G. Wells Split the Atom When H.G. Wells Split the Atom
This essay, from the August 18, 1945, 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 n...
Sep 4, 2003 / Feature / Freda Kirchwey
The Blue Laws The Blue Laws
My mother, a brunette, hurried in her cloth coat through postwar Sundays, which fell
Sep 4, 2003 / Books & the Arts / William Logan
Liberal Pieties Liberal Pieties
CORRECTION: The Fisher family of Six Feet Under is Episcopalian, not Catholic. (10/1)
Sep 4, 2003 / Books & the Arts / JoAnn Wypijewski
Our Families, Ourselves Our Families, Ourselves
Eyal Press is working on a book about the abortion wars in Buffalo, New York.
Sep 4, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eyal Press
An Empire of Their Own An Empire of Their Own
"I have never had such a bad feeling about a war ever before," wrote Sha Twa Nee on the Prophecy Club message board in April.
Sep 4, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Melani McAlister
Toward a Global Parliament Toward a Global Parliament
An institution representing citizens, not states, would advance world democracy.
Sep 4, 2003 / Feature / Richard Falk and Andrew Strauss