Wanted: A Real Leader

Steny Hoyer spouts Beltway conventional wisdom no matter what the cost to his party; Jack Murtha has the potential to help revise our national security and economic priorities. Is ...

David Sirota

Ellen Willis, 1941-2006

Friends and colleagues remember Ellen Willis, political essayist, journalist, rock critic and valued contributor to The Nation, who died November 9.

The Nation

A Win for Women

Thanks to a thoughtful grassroots campaign, voters in South Dakota rejected a draconian abortion ban.

Liza Featherstone

Haggard Values

The homophobic values vote took a body blow in the midterm elections, helped along by hypocrisy in high places.

Richard Kim

Fixing Elections

Let's stop obsessing over conspiracy and focus on the real problem: lack of reliability, transparency and accountability in our electoral system.

Andrew Gumbel

A New Southern Strategy

The midterm elections proved to Democrats that the South must not be written off. The key to winning rural and working-class voters in Dixie is the same as anywhere else.

Bob Moser

And Now, Iraq

The election is over; the war is not. And George W. Bush is suddenly in one tight corner.

David Corn

Measuring the Mandate

Democrats will claim their electoral mandate by understanding how they won: by fielding activist candidates with a clear antiwar message and by defending civil liberties.

John Nichols

It’s Over for Bush

As voters expressed their disgust, this election signaled a repudiation of the corrupt Bush regime, a clear antiwar victory and the collapse of the conservative order.

The Editors

The Death of News

In cities across America, reporters are being laid off, TV stations are cutting back coverage and the newspaper industry is crumbling to dust. When it all shakes out, will Wikipedi...

Nicholas von Hoffman

Murtha’s No Leftie: He’s Right

As Democrats choose between a stalwart critic of the Iraq War and a proponent of Bush policies for Majority Leader, Fox News gets in the act, casting centrist Pennnsylvania Rep. J...

Robert Scheer

Time to Abolish the Editorial Page?

Do newspapers really need special pages for political pronouncements, stentorian tone and candidate endorsements?

Eric Alterman

Keeping Up Appearances

What are we to make of those who would equate Muslim women who wear the veil with the threat of terrorism?

Patricia J. Williams

A Silver Lining for House Republicans

Calvin Trillin

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