Is Syria Next? Is Syria Next?
Shortly after 9/11, the government received an extraordinary gift of hundreds of files on Al Qaeda, crucial data on the activities of radical Islamist cells throughout the Midd...
Oct 16, 2003 / The Editors
Letters Letters
PRISON FAMILIES Easthampton, Mass.
Oct 16, 2003 / Richard Falk, Our Readers, and Andrew Strauss
Dick’s Special Interest in $87 Billion Dick’s Special Interest in $87 Billion
Vice President Dick Cheney has a special interest in this week's Congressional debate on the Bush administration's request for $87 billion to maintain the occupation of Iraq and o...
Oct 15, 2003 / John Nichols
Where Does He Stand? Where Does He Stand?
Every day brings more evidence that this Administration and its rightwing cronies want to unmake everything good about this country, from Head Start to habeas corpus. Their ...
Oct 15, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
I Am No Novak I Am No Novak
I'm no Bob Novak. The conservative columnist, it seems, receives different treatment from the CIA than yours truly. After senior administration off...
Oct 15, 2003 / David Corn
Free Rush Limbaugh! Free Rush Limbaugh!
Sorry to betray such a low level of lust for revenge, but as a card-carrying member of the American Civil Liberties Union, I am duty-bound to defend the rights of even those I lo...
Oct 14, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
Collapse in Cancún Collapse in Cancún
The movement against corporate globalization has made impressive strides. Now it needs to think carefully about what it stands for.
Oct 10, 2003 / Feature / Doug Henwood
Love Streams Love Streams
Clint Eastwood's Mystic River, which opened this year's New York Film Festival on a somber but resonant note, is perhaps the finest western ever to be set in South Boston.
Oct 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Two Poems by Marianne Moore Two Poems by Marianne Moore
Eight of Marianne Moore's major poems were published in The Nation in the 1940s and '50s, including "The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing," "In Distrust of Merits" and "A Carriage F...
Oct 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / The Nation
La Japonaise La Japonaise
With each last reverberation from the world of 1960s and '70s radicalism--the recent parole of Kathy Boudin, for example, a member of the Weather Underground who served twenty-...
Oct 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Egan