For Halliburton, Iraq Is a Cash Cow For Halliburton, Iraq Is a Cash Cow
War is a tragedy for some and a boon for others. As American soldiers continue to die in Iraq, and the length of the war and its costs escalate, Halliburton, the company headed b...
Aug 20, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
August Wakeup Calls August Wakeup Calls
How skewed are this Administration's priorities? Consider the insanity of throwing away billions of dollars on hightech military boondoggles like Star Wars that don't work. Or d...
Aug 19, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Higher Tax on All Your Houses A Higher Tax on All Your Houses
Warren Buffet makes sense in rebuking Prop. 13--but the politicians jump up to save this sacred cow.
Aug 19, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
Occupied Voices Occupied Voices
"Many years have passed in which Palestinians were not really living. What we need is a huge change. And maybe then there will be peace."
Aug 19, 2003 / Feature / Wendy Pearlman
Bogus Blair, Bogus Bush Bogus Blair, Bogus Bush
The headline in Tuesday's editions of London's Guardian newspaper read: "No. 10 knew: Iraq no threat." The headline in London's Daily Mirror shouted: "NO THREAT -- Revealed: Emai...
Aug 19, 2003 / John Nichols
Slim Shady vs. Dubya Slim Shady vs. Dubya
It sounds like a Texas wrestling match: Slim vs Dubya. But in a recent poll that asked about truthfulness, rapper Eminem scored higher than President Bush. According to a global ...
Aug 18, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Form of Looting A Form of Looting
George Akerlof is becoming a household name. Well, sort of. The 2001 Nobel Prize Laureate for Economics, who teaches at Berkeley, was recently cited by Al Gore in his rousing spe...
Aug 17, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The 2003 Blackout The 2003 Blackout
Electricity has now been restored across much of the northeast region of Canada and the United States, but officials are urging consumers and businesses to conserve electricity t...
Aug 16, 2003 / Peter Rothberg
Will the CIA Protect the White House? Will the CIA Protect the White House?
Will there be an investigation into whether Bush administration officials violated the law and undermined national security in order to mount a political ve...
Aug 16, 2003 / David Corn
California Politics: From Our Archives California Politics: From Our Archives
This letter, from our December 7, 1911 issue, and editorial, from October 27, 1962, are special selections from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Natio...
Aug 14, 2003 / Feature / The Nation