Security for Sale Security for Sale
This article is adapted from Sifry and Watzman's just-published Is That a Politician in Your Pocket? Washington on $2 Million a Day.
Sep 16, 2004 / Micah L. Sifry and Nancy Watzman
Agents of Influence Agents of Influence
Did Ariel Sharon, the Prime Minister of Israel, run a covert program with operatives in high-level US government positions to influence the Bush Administration's decision to go t...
Sep 16, 2004 / Bob Dreyfuss
Election Matters Election Matters
The presidential pageant has now risen full in the sky and is blocking out the sun.
Sep 16, 2004 / William Greider
Command of the Truth Command of the Truth
It's one measure of the decay--and the promise--of American political discourse that Seymour Hersh's Chain of Command arrives at a moment when John O'Neill and Jerome Corsi's Unf...
Sep 16, 2004 / The Editors
Peace Demonstrations, 1971 Peace Demonstrations, 1971
This essay, from the May 10, 1971, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published on Viet...
Sep 13, 2004 / The Editors
Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero
Auden had in mind the secondary worlds of literature, but as the Arendt quote indicates, his idea has wider application.
Sep 9, 2004 / Jonathan Schell
Rudy Makes His Move Rudy Makes His Move
Back in the fog of war in Vietnam, LBJ super suckup Jack Valenti let the world know how he felt.
Sep 9, 2004 / Noel E. Parmentel Jr.
Infotainment at the RNC Infotainment at the RNC
With the candidates in the bag, and no hope of drama, the Democratic and Republican conventions can be fairly judged only as extended advertisements for the parties that staged t...
Sep 9, 2004 / John Sayles
Pinochet, Stripped Pinochet, Stripped
In years past, the cronies of Gen.
Sep 9, 2004 / Peter Kornbluh
Putin’s War Putin’s War
The bloody end to the hostage crisis in Beslan resulted in unfathomable human suffering.
Sep 9, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel