Bachelet’s Big Win Bachelet’s Big Win
Michelle Bachelet's election as Chile's first female president represents many things for her fellow citizens: the certainty of political continuity, the possibility of change and ...
Jan 18, 2006 / Feature / Laila Weir
Monetary Zombies Monetary Zombies
We're on our way to being a society of economic zombies, half dead and half alive, buried in debt but prevented by credit card companies from declaring bankruptcy.
Jan 17, 2006 / Feature / Nicholas von Hoffman
Gore’s Challenge to Congress and the Media Gore’s Challenge to Congress and the Media
Al Gore did not use the "I" word. But the former vice president did use his Martin Luther King Day speech in Washington to declare that: "A president who breaks the law is a threa...
Jan 17, 2006 / John Nichols
Can Karen Hughes Spin the CIA Attack in Pakistan? Can Karen Hughes Spin the CIA Attack in Pakistan?
Imagine this: a drone launched from a ship off the Eastern coast of the United States fires a missile that destroys a neighborhood of Stamford, Connecticut....
Jan 17, 2006 / David Corn
Sammy, We Hardly Knew Ya Sammy, We Hardly Knew Ya
For a man reported to have such a sharp legal mind, Judge Samuel Alito was certainly comfortable with his own ignorance, saying, "I don't know" 29 times during the hearings. Desp...
Jan 16, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
‘Let Justice Roll Down’ ‘Let Justice Roll Down’
From 1961 to 1966, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. wrote an annual essay for The Nation on the state of civil rights and race relations in America. His 1965 contribution was p...
Jan 16, 2006 / Peter Rothberg
Rev. King’s Message to the Faithful Rev. King’s Message to the Faithful
Five decades ago this years, in the fall of 1956, the young Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., newly prominent because of the role he played in the boycott by African-Americans of Montg...
Jan 15, 2006 / John Nichols
Confirmation and Crisis Confirmation and Crisis
If the Alito confirmation hearings were a test of Democratic strategy, the Alito vote to come is a test of moderate Republican integrity and mettle.
Jan 14, 2006 / Feature / Bruce Shapiro
Unequipped to Cure Unequipped to Cure
Vaccine production in the United States is in an alarming condition--with drug-makers wedded to outmoded techniques and government more focused on terror than pandemics.
Jan 14, 2006 / Feature / Dr. Marc Siegel
The Cost of Integrity The Cost of Integrity
The recent controversy over false claims in James Frey's The recent controversy over false claims in James Frey's best-selling memoir "A Million Little Pieces" raises questions abo...
Jan 13, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kluger