Weird Religion, Anglican Edition Weird Religion, Anglican Edition
According to two senior Church of England bishops, recent terrible floods in the UK are expressions of God's wrath at excess consumption -- or possibly excess gayfriendliness...
Jul 5, 2007 / Katha Pollitt
Creating a Foundation Creating a Foundation
Co-written by Emily Greenhouse For the last few years students have been steadily debunking the old saw that young people are politically apathetic. Young people might not be nea...
Jul 5, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Tom Paine’s 4th of July Advice for Congress Tom Paine’s 4th of July Advice for Congress
The Fourth of July ought surely, and above all else, to be a celebration of Tom Paine's resolve. As the American colonies moved tentatively toward the fateful declaration of inde...
Jul 4, 2007 / John Nichols
Five for the Fourth Five for the Fourth
As my boss and Nation editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel wrote in Editor's Cut, The Nation's "definition of patriotism is fighting to make sure your country lives up to it...
Jul 3, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
The Most Patriotic Act of All The Most Patriotic Act of All
The Nation has always marched to a different drummer, opposing US involvement in the Spanish-American War and World War I and the Vietnam War, while giving all-out support to the ...
Jul 3, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Jackson: Impeachment Is the Right Response Jackson: Impeachment Is the Right Response
Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., a member of the House of Representatives so Constitutionally-minded that he wrote a book on the subject, responded as a founding father wou...
Jul 3, 2007 / John Nichols
To the Courts, Then, on Behalf of the Constitution! To the Courts, Then, on Behalf of the Constitution!
The founder of the Republic, conscious of the excesses that resulted when King George III and his Parliament cooperated, endeavored to put the legislative and executive branches o...
Jul 2, 2007 / John Nichols
The Pulitzer Prize Winner and Her Husband The Pulitzer Prize Winner and Her Husband
It was less than one year after winning a Pulitzer Prize that columnist Connie Schultz took a leave from her job with the Cleveland Plain Dealer. She wanted to campaign full-time...
Jul 2, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Bloomberg the Philanthropist Bloomberg the Philanthropist
Veteran journalist Roger Simon put it well: " Should [Mayor Bloomberg] spend a billion dollars on a quixotic campaign for President or [does he] spend the same billion dollars to ...
Jul 1, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Another World Is Possible; Another U.S.A. is Necessary Another World Is Possible; Another U.S.A. is Necessary
ATLANTA -- The political discussion in the United States is, for the most part, disappointing -- not merely because it is too ideologically and intellectually narrow but also beca...
Jun 30, 2007 / John Nichols