White House Ducks Smear Inquiry White House Ducks Smear Inquiry
The White House--at least in public--doesn't seem willing to do much to determine whether administration officials blew the cover of an undercover CIA opera...
Jul 23, 2003 / David Corn
Media Giants Get Slapped Media Giants Get Slapped
In an unprecedented rebuff to the agenda of big media, the House of Representatives on Wednesday approved by a 400-21 vote an appropriations bill that includes languarge blocking ...
Jul 23, 2003 / John Nichols
Back to the UN? Back to the UN?
Next time you hear the Bush Administration boast about the multinational support for its occupation of Iraq, remember the story of the Hungarian truck company. It turns out tha...
Jul 23, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Witch Hunt Against the BBC Witch Hunt Against the BBC
In England, they're shooting the messengers--and at least one man is dead already.
Jul 22, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
I've been bashfully mute amidst the chatter over Norman Rush's new novel, Mortals, because he wasn't on the modest list of Writers I Know About.
Jul 21, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Timothy Bradley
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