Rembrandt’s Year Rembrandt’s Year
2006 marks Rembrandt's 400th birthday, and an array of exhibitions, from the sublime to the silly, will open in Amsterdam, Washington and beyond. As the aesthetic hype escalate...
Dec 19, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Abigail R. Esman
Cheney’s Cheerleading Falls Flat Cheney’s Cheerleading Falls Flat
Even as President Bush was trying, once more on Sunday, to spin the fantasy that the Iraq invasion and occupation are some kind of success, Vice President Dick Cheney's visit to I...
Dec 19, 2005 / John Nichols
Dances With Ghosts Dances With Ghosts
As the House of Representatives voted to allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Ohio Democrat Dennis Kucinich decried the back-door methods and contemplated t...
Dec 19, 2005 / Feature / Dennis Kucinich
Shoot the Moon Shoot the Moon
How realistic is it to stop the Bush Administration from pursuing its war agenda? Former prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega offers some hard-core advice about how to challenge the sta...
Dec 19, 2005 / Feature / Elizabeth de la Vega
Bush’s New Rhetoric on the War Bush’s New Rhetoric on the War
Rhetoric only goes so far in trumping reality--especially when it comes to a messy war. George W. Bush has been on a roll the past two weeks, delivering one...
Dec 19, 2005 / David Corn
Spying and Lying Spying and Lying
"This shocking revelation ought to send a chill down the spine of every American." Senator Russell Feingold, December 17, 2005 As reported by the New York Times on Friday, "M...
Dec 18, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Feingold Beats Bush In Patriot Act Fight Feingold Beats Bush In Patriot Act Fight
Four years ago, U.S. Senator Russ Feingold distinguished himself as the Senate's premier defender of the Constitution, when he cast the chamber's sole vote against enactment of th...
Dec 16, 2005 / John Nichols
The Wonder and Horror of 2005 The Wonder and Horror of 2005
In the gloom of post-election 2004 few people, if any, could have anticipated the wild surprises of 2005. Focusing on three unforeseen developments of the past year, a meditation o...
Dec 15, 2005 / Feature / Rebecca Solnit
‘Nation’ Readers on the Iraq War ‘Nation’ Readers on the Iraq War
Our editorial statement that "The Nation will not support any candidate for national office who does not make a speedy end to the American war in Iraq a major issue in his or h...
Dec 15, 2005 / Our Readers
East Fifth Street: A Poster for the Oresteia East Fifth Street: A Poster for the Oresteia
Pasted bumpily on brick, life-sized. Inside, in a former foundry's casting vault, my father in the role of Agamemnon died. A thin-browed bronze mask skating
Dec 15, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Anne Winters