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November 26, 2007 Issue

John Nichols on Michael Mukasey, Patricia J. Williams on judicial activism in the US and Pakistan, an Elizabeth Willis poem…

Cover art by: Cover art by Steve Brodner, design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels

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Editorial

Immigrant Drivers License Plan Unravels

New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer had a good idea about how to issue driver's licenses to undocumented workers. Too bad he caved.

Andrea Batista Schlesinger and Amy Traub

Writers Strike, Silence Falls

As the screenwriters strike enters its second week, take a moment to appreciate those without whom late night comics are struck mute, movies are left unmade and on TV, there's no...

Barbara Ehrenreich

Nation Notes

Farewell, David Corn, and best of luck in your new venture. Welcome, Christopher Hayes to The Nation's Washington bureau.

The Editors

Reading Lincoln in Pakistan

Pervez Musharraf wraps himself in Lincoln's mantle, but no one is fooled.

Eric Foner

All Cowboys Out Now

Firms like Blackwater operate in a demand-based industry, and it is this demand that must be cut off.

Jeremy Scahill

Noted.

Peter Rothberg on extremist judges, Peter C. Baker on Radiohead.

The Editors

Musharraf’s Emergency

If the United States is so keen on spreading democracy and fighting radical Islamists, why does it continue to back a leader who has suspended the Constitution and gone to war with...

Graham Usher

Voting for Torture

By approving Michael Mukasey's nomination for Attorney General despite his evasions on waterboarding, the Senate has led us all across a dangerous line.

The Editors

Column

The Subprime Bailout

One way or another, banks will get taxpayer help to undo the subprime mess, but it won't be cheap. And the rest of us can bank on getting robbed in the process.

Nicholas von Hoffman

Bush Stands By His Dictator

Bush's coddling of Pervez Musharraf defies all reason--and bears some unsettling similarity to his own offenses and misteps as President.

Robert Scheer

Of Lies, Catfights and Rock ‘n’ Roll

Official lies have always been with us. But our political life--as depicted by Maureen Dowd, among others--has been poisoned by the even more insidious unrebuttable lie.

Eric Alterman

Judicial Activism in a Time of No Irony

Contemplating Mukasey, Musharraf and the imprisoned lawyers of Pakistan: how easily a modern liberal democracy can slide into a totalitarian state.

Patricia J. Williams

Rudy G. Responds to Accusations of Using Phony Statistics

Calvin Trillin

Fancy That!

Robert Grossman

Letters

Readers react--positively and negatively--to design changes in the print edition of The Nation.

Our Readers

Feature

Bush, Pakistan and the Bomb

The Bush Administration's failed war on terror has stoked the fires it was meant to quench. And in Pakistan, the risk of nuclear terrorism is on the rise.

Jonathan Schell

The Coming Foreclosure Tsunami

As Congress grapples with the wave of foreclosures and bankruptcies resulting from the subprime mess, why are some Dems siding with the banks?

Chris Hayes

Syria’s Dangerous Gambits

Ostracized by the Bush Administration, Syria is flirting with rogue status. But if Washington restarts dialogue, there is plenty of room for common ground.

Mohamad Bazzi

Susan Faludi: America’s Terror Dream

A discussion with the author of The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America, the master narrative of our national security myth.

Rashi Kesarwani

Executive Excess on Capitol Hill

Faced with a no-brainer fix to close a tax loophole, Senate Democrats are dithering, caught between the interests of their donors and their voters.

Chris Hayes and Charlie Cray

Clinton Under Fire for Planting Fake Questions

Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign came under fire over the weekend for planting fake questions at town hall events--and the netroots are on to her

Ari Melber