US Wars and Military Action

A Reply to Peter Beinart A Reply to Peter Beinart

In my last column, I focused on the Kerry campaign's inability to articulate an alternative national security strategy.

Dec 22, 2004 / Column / Eric Alterman

War Resisters Go North War Resisters Go North

Protests over the conduct of the Iraq war are mounting from what seems an unlikely place: the ranks of the military.

Dec 16, 2004 / Alisa Solomon

Operation Self-Destruction Operation Self-Destruction

This article, from the August 26, 1968, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published on...

Dec 8, 2004 / Feature / Karl M. Purnell

The War That Never Was The War That Never Was

As war threatened Europe in the 1930s, a physicist turned to a psychiatrist to help understand the impending violence.

Dec 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Russell Jacoby

Farewell, Colin Powell Farewell, Colin Powell

We need to say farewell to Colin Powell, Who should have long ago tossed in the towel. Instead he lent his good name to the team In vouching for its cockamamie scheme.

Nov 24, 2004 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Thousands Protest SOA Thousands Protest SOA

A report from the SOA protests at Ft. Benning.

Nov 23, 2004 / Feature / Patrick Mulvaney

Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero

For some time now, American political discussion has seemed to revolve around little stock phrases, such as "defining moment" (at the time of the first Gulf War), "the end of his...

Nov 18, 2004 / Jonathan Schell

The Costs of War The Costs of War

TERI WILLS ALLISON Teri Wills Allison, a massage therapist and a member of Military Families Speak Out, lives near Austin, Texas.

Nov 4, 2004 / Feature / Various Contributors

War Games War Games

In the players' handbooks that once circulated among commedia dell'arte troupes, the wandering actors of early modern Italy used to set down inventories of the lazzi, or comic tu...

Oct 28, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Iraq’s Civilian Casualties Iraq’s Civilian Casualties

The civilians of Falluja are negotiating to stave off a threatened US-led military incursion.

Oct 28, 2004 / Jefferson Morley

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