Smoking Out Smuggling Smoking Out Smuggling
It's hard to imagine a tale of corporate mischief that would shock veteran observers of the US tobacco industry. But even the most jaded reader may raise an eyebrow at the allegat...
Apr 18, 2002 / The Editors
Lonesome Cowboy Lonesome Cowboy
On April 11, as John Anderson notes in this issue, the International Criminal Court was scheduled to go into effect after being ratified by the required sixty nations. Although Bi...
Apr 11, 2002 / The Editors
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From a short essay on "Nationaljudenthum und Zionismus," in Die Kritik (Berlin) for August 7, we learn that the movement for the reestablishment of an independent Jewish state in...
Apr 5, 2002 / Feature / The Editors
Rights on the Line Rights on the Line
Recent days have brought the first tentative but welcome roadblocks to the Bush Administration's war-fevered assault on civil liberties. In Newark, Superior Court Judge Arthur D'I...
Apr 4, 2002 / The Editors
The Road Not Yet Taken The Road Not Yet Taken
Even as the Middle East plunged deeper into the maelstrom of fear, hatred, violence and despair, recent diplomatic developments, ironically, made the conditions for achieving peac...
Apr 4, 2002 / The Editors
Lieberman in Enronland Lieberman in Enronland
It has come to this: The investigation of Enron as a political scandal appears for now to depend on Senator Joseph Lieberman, an Enron Democrat who bagged Enron campaign contribut...
Mar 28, 2002 / The Editors
In Fact… In Fact…
AWARDS TIME The Nation is a finalist in the single-topic-issue category of the National Magazine Awards for "Death Trip: The American Way of Execution" (Jan. 8/15, 2001). This fe...
Mar 28, 2002 / The Editors
The US & the Mideast The US & the Mideast
What was originally billed as Dick Cheney's mission to recruit Arab nations' support for ousting Saddam Hussein became a lecture tour on the urgency of dealing with the Israeli-Pa...
Mar 21, 2002 / The Editors
In Fact… In Fact…
In Fact... UNSKEWING THE FEDERAL COURTS The Senate Judiciary Committee's 10-to-9 rejection of Mississippi Federal Judge Charles Pickering for the Court of Appeals for the Fifth C...
Mar 21, 2002 / The Editors
Bush Goes Nuclear Bush Goes Nuclear
George W. Bush went out of his way to praise America's allies in his speech marking the six-month anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In a clear...
Mar 14, 2002 / The Editors