Articles

Understanding Ashcroft Understanding Ashcroft

I am beginning to suspect that Nation readers may not fully appreciate the challenges Attorney General John Ashcroft faces. What would you do in his place? Your intelligence agenc...

Apr 18, 2002 / David Cole

The Loneliest Road The Loneliest Road

Late in the evening in back-road America you tend to pick the motels with a few cars parked in front of the rooms. There's nothing less appealing than an empty courtyard, with ma...

Apr 18, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Alexander Cockburn

The Enemy The Enemy

The buildings' wounds are what I can't forget; though nothing could absorb my sense of loss, I stared into their blackness, what was not supposed to be there, billowing of soot...

Apr 18, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Rafael Campo

Ghost Buster Ghost Buster

To immerse oneself in Robert Caro's heroic biographies is to come face to face with a shocking but unavoidable realization: Much of what we think we know about money, power and p...

Apr 18, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman

American Dreams, Lost and Found American Dreams, Lost and Found

In this excerpt from his 2002 book, Studs Terkel recalls an encounter with Dennis Kucinich, "the boy-mayor of Cleveland," and follows his political odyssey.

Apr 18, 2002 / Feature / Studs Terkel

Is Smuggling a Patriotic Act? Is Smuggling a Patriotic Act?

On the one-month anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tobacco industry took aim at Congress's first effort to respond to the crisis with a major piece of new leg...

Apr 18, 2002 / Mark Schapiro

It’s Only a Beginning It’s Only a Beginning

Nearly four years have elapsed since that merry month of May when France and the whole world were taken aback by a sudden and momentous upheaval.

Apr 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer

Sharon Wears Oppressor’s Cloak Sharon Wears Oppressor’s Cloak

What is the fundamental difference between Slobodan Milosevic and Ariel Sharon? The former is on trial for war crimes, while the latter still leads an occupying army.

Apr 16, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

It’s Time to Turn the Farm Bill Debate Into a Food Fight It’s Time to Turn the Farm Bill Debate Into a Food Fight

Would someone in Congress please, please, please propose changing the name of the "farm bill" to the "food bill"? Maybe if the issue at hand had a more dramatic name the media a...

Apr 15, 2002 / John Nichols

Talking With Jeff Tweedy Talking With Jeff Tweedy

Jeff Tweedy may be best known to Nation readers as Billy Bragg's collaborator (along with his band Wilco) on the Mermaid Avenue recordings of recent years--two great albums that s...

Apr 11, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Hillary Frey

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