Abramoff’s Last Stand

Senator John McCain's latest Senate inquiry into über-lobbyist Jack Abramoff strikes deep in the corrupt heart of the Bush Administration.

Ari Berman

Changing the Electoral Game in Colombia

In a landmark ruling, Colombia's Constitutional Court has allowed President Alvaro Uribe to seek a second term. That's good news for the Bush Administration, which considers Uribe ...

Liliana Segura

Senate Democrats Show Some Spine

Senate minority leader Harry Reid forced Republicans into a closed-door session Tuesday to examine the Administration's use and misuse of intelligence on Iraq. Could Democrats fina...

John Nichols

Rising Prices + Higher Interest Rates = Middle-Class Misery

Interest rates nosed higher today as the Federal Reserve Board sought to control inflation. But the impact of runaway inflation is already being felt by workers whose wages will st...

Nicholas von Hoffman

Did Cheney Know Plame Was Undercover?

The indictment of I. Lewis Libby indictment casts Vice President Dick Cheney in a key role in the CIA leak investigation: It suggests Cheney had reason to suspect Valerie Wilson wa...

David Corn

Scott Ritter and Seymour Hersh: Iraq Confidential

Iraq is a nation on fire, a conflagration of America's making that threatens to consume everything the nation stands for. How did we get there? How do we get out? Can we get out?

The Nation

The White House Criminal Conspiracy

The Bush Administration should be prosecuted for conspiracy to defraud the United States by using half-truths and recklessly false statements to lead the country into an illegal wa...

Elizabeth de la Vega

Salvador Memories

An exhibit at the International Center of Photography showcasing the brutal images of the civil war in El Salvador should remind the Pentagon and the public that the "Salvador Opt...

Scott Sherman

Say It Ain’t So, Big Leagues

Strip-mining the Dominican Republic for talent, Major League Baseball periodically plucks one lucky boy from his home and family and gives him a dream for a better life. But what h...

Dave Zirin

Corruption of Hope in Brazil

Luis Inacio Lula da Silva came into power in 2002 on a wave of populist support for an era of socialist politics and participatory democracy. But da Silva has offered the people of...

Hilary Wainwright

The Question of Kurdistan

The Kurds have almost no natural resources and suffer from a culture of corruption. But their call for autonomy is a serious threat to the building of a united Iraq.

Christian Parenti

Madam President, Madam President

As the backlash against women gets daily more open and absurd, our real-life female politicians seem paralyzed. It's up to television now: Run, Geena, run!

Katha Pollitt

Another Miracle From Bill Frist

Calvin Trillin

State of the Magazines

On both sides of the Atlantic, liberal news magazines facing declining circulation have started to play into the celebrity culture. But there are gems that have the power to carry ...

Victor Navasky

Salvador Memories

An exhibit at the International Center of Photography showcasing the brutal images of the civil war in El Salvador should remind the Pentagon and the public that the "Salvador Opt...

Scott Sherman

Passion

It isn't the choir of small boys, casting about, singing shyly or
It isn't  with perfect oval mouths,

David Mason

Writer’s Block

An e-mail from my rabbi, who's moved to the West Coast,
says they're "happier than pigs in shit." Something
forced about that. People with a new grandchild don't...

Alan Feldman

The Uncertainty Principle

By writing a novel about a conventional novelist writing about a conventional man, J.M. Coetzee's latest work illuminates the role of the novel and cuts through typical and tired t...

Pankaj Mishra

The War of the Liberals

Power and the Idealists clings to the notion that the Iraq War was waged for humanitarian ideals, while At the Point of a Gun documents the inner torment of humanitar...

Stephen Holmes