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September 22, 2003 Issue

Mark Weisbrot derides Venezula’s recall, David Cole details John Ashcroft’s publicity tour and David Sarasohn lauds patriots fig…

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Editorial

Letter From Ground Zero

The basic mistake of American policy in Iraq is not that the Pentagon--believing the fairy tales told it by Iraqi exile groups and overriding State Department advice--forgot...

Jonathan Schell

Venezuela’s Recall

Venezuela appeared to take a couple of steps closer to a recall referendum on the presidency of Hugo Chávez in recent weeks, but there is little chance that he will b...

Mark Weisbrot

Alabama Breakup

While the national media gaze has fixed upon the battle to move a two-and-a-half-ton Ten Commandments monument out of view in the state's judiciary building, Alabama is abou...

Allen Tullos

UK Sideshow to Iraq

With its daily dominance of the headlines and a stellar cast from the worlds of government, secret intelligence and the media, the Hutton inquiry, playing here until the end...

D.D. Guttenplan

September 11, 2003

Anniversaries are historical page markers; they denote a time to pause and reflect.

The Editors

Column

Dean, Healthcare and Medical Marijuana

Dr. Marc regularly answers readers' questions on matters relating to medicine, healthcare and politics. To send a query, click here<...

Dr. Marc Siegel

Bush Must Admit the Error of His Ways

Or at least change his cockamamie foreign policies.

Robert Scheer

Stacked Decalogue

If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published on religion and politics, click here for inform...

Katha Pollitt

Colin Powell and ‘The Power of Audacity’

One of the problems with the media coverage of this Administration is that it requires bad manners.

Eric Alterman

A Short Conversation With a Sissy-Hawk on the Possibility of a Quagmire

Calvin Trillin

Letters

BURGLING IN BAGHDAD

New York City

Katha Pollitt and Our Readers and Patrick Seale

Feature

Two-Bullet Roulette

American nuclear power plants are in serious danger from an easily fixable problem.

Matt Bivens

Toward a Global Parliament

An institution representing citizens, not states, would advance world democracy.

Richard Falk and Andrew Strauss

Homeland Insecurity

The President claims he is doing everything he can to protect us. But he's not.

David Corn

The Twilight-Zone Court

The attacks of September 11, 2001, ushered in a multitude of legal transformations that restrict civil liberties in the name of national security.

Steven Donziger

Patriots vs. the Patriot Act

When Attorney General John Ashcroft felt obliged to go out campaigning in August in defense of the USA Patriot Act, his problem wasn't just what people were saying about the...

David Sarasohn

On the Road With Ashcroft

He's trying to talk up the Patriot Act, but americans may no longer be buying.

David Cole

Marching on Cancún

Peasants, punks, students, green activists, union workers, social leaders and many more will meet in Cancún to say no to the WTO. The Zapatista Army has also announce...

Tania Molina Ramírez