Another Republican Ditches Bush Another Republican Ditches Bush
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher was Jack Abramoff's best friend in Congress. The two were so close that Rohrabacher was the only member of Congress to sign a letter asking a federal judge t...
Apr 25, 2006 / The Nation
Nuclear Madness Nuclear Madness
First the Bush Administration undermines the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) by supplying India with nuclear technology, then it flirts with the use of tactical nuclear wea...
Apr 25, 2006 / The Nation
Bush Enters Border Fray Bush Enters Border Fray
With the Senate coming back from its recess, will it now pick up from where it left off two weeks ago and finally get around to passing comprehensive immigration reform? Under pr...
Apr 25, 2006 / The Nation
Does the Washington Post Read Its Own Business Columnist? Does the Washington Post Read Its Own Business Columnist?
Maybe it was Exxon's CEO raking in $144,573 a day in compensation that moved mainstream media outlets to look more closely at the way corporations are shredding their social contr...
Apr 24, 2006 / The Nation
When Will James Dobson See The Light? When Will James Dobson See The Light?
In her smart Los Angeles Times op-ed, "E-Gitator" Laurie David (as she was dubbed in a lavish spread in Vanity Fair's current "Green Issue,") observes that "the issue of global wa...
Apr 23, 2006 / The Nation
Giuliani Distancing Himself From Pro-Gay Past? Giuliani Distancing Himself From Pro-Gay Past?
An interesting tidbit from the Advocate shows Giuliani's continuing campaign to woo evangelicals. Seems he's really going all-out in embracing these guys, as was reported during h...
Apr 21, 2006 / The Nation
Bush the Unpopular Bush the Unpopular
The numbers from the new Survey USA polling on President Bush are stunning. As EJ Dionne notes in his Washington Post column today, a majority of voters approve of Bush in just fo...
Apr 21, 2006 / The Nation
Populist Potential in the South Populist Potential in the South
At a time when the red-blue political map looks close-to-obsolete, check out the fascinating snapshot of Southern politics offered up in the Pew Research Center's latest poll. The...
Apr 20, 2006 / The Nation
Keeping it Real Keeping it Real
The New York Times has an interesting story on street fiction, the ever-rising genre of "urban" (read: Black) fiction that is moving from stalls on Brooklyn's Fulton Street to Ma...
Feb 14, 2006 / The Nation
Your Questions for Alito Your Questions for Alito
As confirmation hearings unfold before the Senate Judiciary committee, readers of TheNation.com--and at least one high-profile magazine editor--posed their own questions about Samu...
Jan 11, 2006 / Feature / The Nation