New Medicare Benefit Helps Only Drug Companies New Medicare Benefit Helps Only Drug Companies
Why are so few elderly people signing up for the new Medicare drug benefit? It's cumbersome, costly and totally confusing.
Nov 16, 2005 / Dr. Marc Siegel
Support Our Troops Support Our Troops
It's easy to slap a magnet on your SUV and feel like you're supporting American soldiers fighting a brutal, far-off war. But the way to really support them is to work to extricate ...
Nov 10, 2005 / Medea Benjamin and Gayle Brandeis
Majority/Minority Majority/Minority
Joe Biden buoys up Samuel Alito's nomination by tamping down speculation of a filibuster. But California's George Miller convinced the President to revoke an executive order that w...
Nov 10, 2005 / David Sirota
Letter From the (Outgoing) Publisher Letter From the (Outgoing) Publisher
As Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel becomes the latest in a long line of publisher/owners of The Nation, Victor Navasky looks ahead to his new role as publisher emeritus and member of ...
Nov 10, 2005 / Victor Navasky
Arnold Show: Canceled Arnold Show: Canceled
Buoyed by their defeat of Schwarzeneggar's "referendum revolution," Democrats and organized labor are now energized to defeat the governor's re-election bid next year.
Nov 10, 2005 / Marc Cooper
Yes, Virginia… Yes, Virginia…
Democratic gubernatorial wins in Virginia and New Jersey gave the lie to the GOP contention that "conservatism is on the march." But infighting among Dems doomed electoral reform i...
Nov 10, 2005 / John Nichols
The Delphi Oracle The Delphi Oracle
The cynical restructuring plan for bankrupt Delphi Automotive calls for massive wage and benefit givebacks for 51,000 American workers. Governors of affected states must craft stra...
Nov 10, 2005 / The Editors
Democrats and the War Democrats and the War
In 2005, The Nation declared it would only support candidates who made a speedy end to this war a major campaign issue.
Nov 10, 2005 / The Editors