States Support the Underdogs States Support the Underdogs
What a month for the Green Mountain State. on March 18th, the VermontCatamounts stunned heavily favored Syracuse for their first NCAAtournament win in the team's 100-year history....
Mar 25, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Cultural Barbarism Cultural Barbarism
The sterile term "collateral damage" justifiably brings to mind the human tragedy of war. But the devastating and wanton damage inflicted on the ancient city of Babylon by US-led ...
Mar 23, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Congress on Steroids Congress on Steroids
When appearing before the House Government Reform Committee last week, Mark McGwire didn't want to talk about his past. It was an appropriate place to develop historical amnesia. ...
Mar 22, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Congress Fails to Function Congress Fails to Function
The speed with which the Congress leapt to intervene in the Florida right-to-die case of Terry Schiavo might create the impression that the US House of Representatives is a functi...
Mar 21, 2005 / John Nichols
Sweet Victory:Taking Back the Campuses Sweet Victory:Taking Back the Campuses
For all the talk of left-wing bias in academia, little notice has been given to the right's growing influence on America's college campuses. As part of the conservative message ma...
Mar 18, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Two Years Later Two Years Later
Last week we featured a series of of antiwar events being planned by Nation readers in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania and in Memphis, Tennessee to mark this weekend's second an...
Mar 17, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
Andy Stern Speaks His Mind Andy Stern Speaks His Mind
"Andy Stern is not shy about speaking his mind," veteran labor reporter David Moberg wrote in our recent cover story, Can't Workers of the Word Unite? In these last months, Stern ...
Mar 16, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Talking with Andy Stern Talking with Andy Stern
Excerpt from DMI "Marketplace of Ideas" Series with SEIU President Andy Stern. March 14, 2005. New York City, New York. Hon. Carl McCall: President Stern I have a practical quest...
Mar 16, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Celtic Tiger Bites the Poor Celtic Tiger Bites the Poor
The music of St. Patrick's Day, if it is political at all, tends to pick at old wounds and recall even older fights. That doesn't make it bad – a good many of the old rebel song...
Mar 16, 2005 / John Nichols
Without DeLay! Without DeLay!
We've spent considerable time at The Nation detailing the increasingly muddy ethics trail being traveled by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. And, every day, new details come out ...
Mar 15, 2005 / Peter Rothberg