US Wars and Military Action

We Could Have Danced All Night We Could Have Danced All Night

(The Bushes Do "My Fair Lady" at the Inaugural Balls)

Jan 27, 2005 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Battling the Pentagon Battling the Pentagon

On issues of war and peace, progressives should take heart from the fact that no matter how aggressive the Bush Administration's intentions may be, its ability to carry them out ...

Jan 27, 2005 / William D. Hartung and Michelle Ciarrocca

On the Confirmation of Condoleezza (‘Mushroom Cloud’) Rice as Secretary of State On the Confirmation of Condoleezza (‘Mushroom Cloud’) Rice as Secretary of State

The mushroom-shaped cloud Condi spun As being the next smoking gun Was hooey invented to show Attacking Iraq's apropos.

Jan 20, 2005 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Pomp and Improper Circumstance Pomp and Improper Circumstance

Some might say it's tacky to rain on the President's parade, but two crucial news stories compel it.

Jan 18, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer

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

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