Antiwar and Proud of It Antiwar and Proud of It
The throngs of Vietnamese who hailed Bill Clinton as "the antiwar President" demonstrated that they as a people remember something that we as a people have chosen to forget. It i...
Nov 27, 2000 / H. Bruce Franklin
The American Conscience The American Conscience
This essay, from the December 12, 1969, 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...
Nov 22, 2000 / The Editors
Anthropologists as Spies Anthropologists as Spies
Collaboration occurred in the past, and there’s no professional bar to it today.
Nov 2, 2000 / Feature / David Price
The Former Yugoslavia The Former Yugoslavia
During the Kosovo crisis of last year, it was commonplace if not routine to hear two mantras being intoned by those who had decided that "never" would be about the right ...
Oct 5, 2000 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
The Cartography of Death The Cartography of Death
Certainly...get him hanged! Why not? Anything--anything can be done in this country. --Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness So here we are, barely into the next century, and...
Oct 5, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Tom Engelhardt
CIA Outrages in Chile CIA Outrages in Chile
"Covert action," the late Senator Frank Church concluded in 1976 after his long inquiry into CIA operations in Chile and elsewhere, is a "semantic disguise for murder, coercion, ...
Sep 28, 2000 / Peter Kornbluh
Aid for Nuclear Workers Aid for Nuclear Workers
Madame Curie's denial of radiation dangers is emblematic of the legacy we now face as America's romance with the atom draws to a close.
Sep 25, 2000 / Robert Alvarez
Trulock Is Source of Botched Lee Case Trulock Is Source of Botched Lee Case
In a bad spy flick, there's got to be a character like Notra Trulock, an obsessed sleuth who always gets his man--even if it's the wrong man.
Sep 12, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
George Smiley, Move Over George Smiley, Move Over
"This is a story about a spy," writes Millicent Dillon in Harry Gold: A Novel.
Jun 29, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Elsa Dixler
Want to Know a Secret?–There Are No Secrets Want to Know a Secret?–There Are No Secrets
These days, the once highly revered nuclear weapons lab at Los Alamos is the butt of jokes and investigations over the latest revelation--that top-secret files supposedly locke...
Jun 27, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer