War Against Iraq: The Context War Against Iraq: The Context
The terrorism war begins to sag. The perpetrator we were meant to bag Remains at large, and wartime fervor fades. Then Bush and all his hawkish White House aides Drop sanctio...
Sep 5, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The New Bush Doctrine The New Bush Doctrine
Fighting terrorism requires new thinking but not a US imperial role.
Jun 27, 2002 / Feature / Richard Falk
War on Iraq Is Wrong War on Iraq Is Wrong
If the Bush Administration has its way, Iraq will be the first test of its new doctrine of pre-emption. To adopt such a destabilizing strategy is profoundly contrary to our interes...
Jun 20, 2002 / The Editors
The Battle of Algiers The Battle of Algiers
A new memoir stirs long-suppressed memories of the “war without a name.”
May 31, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Adam Shatz
The Gift of Time The Gift of Time
The case for abolition of nuclear weapons.
Feb 2, 1998 / Jonathan Schell
Mythologizing the Bomb Mythologizing the Bomb
The beauty of the atomic scientists' calculations hid from them the truly Faustian contract they scratched their names to.
Aug 14, 1995 / E.L. Doctorow
Requiem for the American Empire Requiem for the American Empire
“Empires are restless organisms. They must constantly renew themselves; should an empire start leaking energy, it will die.”
Jan 11, 1986 / Gore Vidal
A Spartacan Manifesto A Spartacan Manifesto
Shortly after the murders of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, The Nation published the manifesto of the German Spartacists, a group the pair co-founded to incite a Marxist revol...
Mar 8, 1919 / Clara Zetkin, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Franz Mehring