William Greider

National Affairs Correspondent

William Greider is The Nation’s national-affairs correspondent.

The President Is Not Smiling The President Is Not Smiling

Card is out, Bolten in. The Senate is stuck on immigration. And every day brings more bad news. Take care of this, will you, Josh?

Mar 28, 2006 / Feature / William Greider

Learning to Love the Bomb Learning to Love the Bomb

Could the world learn to live with a nuclear Iran? A new power equation of nuclear proliferation is emerging to challenge the Bush Administration's bluster on the subject.

Mar 21, 2006 / Feature / William Greider

A Peculiar Politician A Peculiar Politician

Senator Russell Feingold should be praised for calling on the Senate to censure the President for breaking the law and lying about his domestic spying program. Instead, he's mocked...

Mar 14, 2006 / William Greider

Will Greenspan Tell the Truth? Will Greenspan Tell the Truth?

A Greenspan memoir will do fine in the marketplace. It is the kind of Important Book daughters buy for father's birthday. In the unlikely event Greenspan tells the truth, it would ...

Mar 8, 2006 / Books & the Arts / William Greider

Olympic Swagger Olympic Swagger

Swagger was America's chosen posture at the Winter Olympics. Once again, sport imitated life: boasting got us nowhere at the Turin games or in the world.

Feb 28, 2006 / Feature / William Greider

The Boy Who Cried Wolf The Boy Who Cried Wolf

The Dubai Ports flap is bogus, but it's fun to see Democrats and Republicans frothing in unison. Hysteria has defined the Bush presidency; now the fearmonger-in-chief is getting a ...

Feb 23, 2006 / Feature / William Greider

A Warning Bell A Warning Bell

Democrats can capitalize on the current economic stall and gain control of Congress with a return to bedrock principles: creating jobs, restoring incomes and rescuing families from...

Feb 2, 2006 / William Greider

Rebels Rebels

With persistence and strong convictions, insurgents can change a political party. Galvanized by the war and disgusted with weak-spined party leaders, rank-and-file Democrats may at...

Dec 20, 2005 / Feature / William Greider

Apollo Now Apollo Now

Industrial society is on a collision course with nature. The devastation of New Orleans is a metaphor for what can happen next to us all. Will America decide to reshape the future ...

Dec 15, 2005 / Feature / William Greider

All the King’s Media All the King’s Media

The scandals suffocating the Bush Administration seem less like Nixon and Watergate and more like Louis XV and pre-Revolutionary France. They are harbingers of a potent cultural ev...

Nov 3, 2005 / Books & the Arts / William Greider

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