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‘Shoot Movies, Not Iraqis’ ‘Shoot Movies, Not Iraqis’

Well, we can rest assured that the Academy Awards voting is not rigged. Going into Sunday night's Oscars' ceremony, it was a safe bet that, if the people who run the movie-indust...

Mar 24, 2003 / John Nichols

Fighting for Peace–UPDATED Fighting for Peace–UPDATED

****HELP GREET BUSH IN FLORIDA**** George W. Bush is going to Florida tomorrow. Help the local progresive community give him a proper greeting. He'll be at MacDill Air Force Bas...

Mar 23, 2003 / Peter Rothberg

Against the Hijacking of Patriotism Against the Hijacking of Patriotism

"In all good conscience, I cannot and will not vote for a resolution that supports and endorses a failed policy that led us to war," declared US Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, as he ...

Mar 22, 2003 / John Nichols

Rachel Corrie’s Echo Rachel Corrie’s Echo

In the last note that 23-year-old American college student Rachel Corrie wrote to her father from a Palestinian community on the Gaza Strip, she thanked Craig Corrie for stepping ...

Mar 20, 2003 / John Nichols

Global Dispatches Global Dispatches

The Nation elicited comment on reaction to the war against Iraq from all corners of the globe.

Mar 20, 2003 / Feature / The Nation

An American Tragedy

An American Tragedy An American Tragedy

The tragedy of America in the post-cold war era is that we have proved unequal to the responsibility that our own power placed upon us.

Mar 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell

The Poodle That Barked The Poodle That Barked

George Bush is supposed to be the cowboy, Tony Blair the sidekick--or, in some versions, the presidential poodle.

Mar 20, 2003 / D.D. Guttenplan

Antiwar America Antiwar America

"This is what democracy looks like" chanted twenty-four antiwar demonstrators as they were arrested outside Toledo's Navy and Air Force recruitment office on the day George W.

Mar 20, 2003 / John Nichols

Frost at Foggy Bottom Frost at Foggy Bottom

Is the government's foreign policy apparatus a casualty of war? The recent resignations of two career State Department officials, who left to protest George W.

Mar 20, 2003 / David Corn

The Loyal Opposition The Loyal Opposition

The Senate Democrats sat mum, Like doves afraid to coo. So history will soon record This war as their war too.

Mar 20, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin

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