Smart Letters/Mad George’s Revisionism Smart Letters/Mad George’s Revisionism
Have you noticed that many days, in newspapers nationwide, the letters to the editor are more enlightening and provocative than the op-eds or editorials they're sandwiched betwee...
Jul 21, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Help Save the FOIA Help Save the FOIA
As Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel noted in a recent weblog, the Freedom of Information Act has been under severe assault from the Bush Administration since October 2001, w...
Jul 21, 2003 / Peter Rothberg
Blair’s Crisis, Bush’s Crisis Blair’s Crisis, Bush’s Crisis
Only hours after British Prime Minister Tony Blair told a cheering US Congress that history would forgive the United States and Great Britain for using dubious data to make the ca...
Jul 19, 2003 / John Nichols
Freedom Summer Freedom Summer
Despite threats of violence, volunteers from around the world have arrived in the occupied territories for Freedom Summer.
Jul 17, 2003 / Feature / Adam Shapiro
Badlands Badlands
It's always good fun to see a boy wax romantic over the first girl to give him a handjob--and if the boy should be a black-hatted Jew, the fun is only improved.
Jul 17, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Charlotte’s Web Charlotte’s Web
In 1890 the American feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote a remarkable short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," about a woman--genteel, educated, with more than a casual taste f...
Jul 17, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick
Written in Memory Written in Memory
Helen Keller may be the world's most famous supercrip.
Jul 17, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Michael Bérubé
Lady Day Lady Day
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's new book, The Majesty of the Law, appears at a particularly auspicious moment. As the swing vote on and author of Grutter v.
Jul 17, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Herman Schwartz
The Bourgeois Revolutionary The Bourgeois Revolutionary
Publishers, even academic presses, know that the public likes biography and cater to this taste with a stream of handsomely produced, and often quite well-written, volumes.
Jul 17, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Robin Blackburn
…and the Poor Get Poorer …and the Poor Get Poorer
Collateral damage mounts in Bush's ideological war on the welfare state.
Jul 17, 2003 / Feature / Kim Phillips-Fein