A New Day in Madrid A New Day in Madrid
Spaniards were bewildered by the American view of their vote to kick out the ruling conservative party as a sign of weakness.
Mar 21, 2004 / Feature / Samuel Loewenberg
Letter From London Letter From London
In Labour Britain there's a deep sense of pessimism and betrayal.
Mar 21, 2004 / Feature / Maria Margaronis
Opposing Occupation Opposing Occupation
"I am Jewish. I am Israeli. I am a citizen of this state, and I am very upset."
Mar 20, 2004 / Feature / Ellen Cantarow
Self-Determining Haiti Self-Determining Haiti
This essay, from the August 28, 1920, 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 H...
Mar 18, 2004 / Feature / James Weldon Johnson
Remembering Rachel Corrie Remembering Rachel Corrie
Why has Corrie's killing gone unchallenged by the United States?
Mar 18, 2004 / Feature / Adam Shapiro
The New Critic The New Critic
The American foreign affairs establishment seems finally to have gotten worried about the antics of the Boy Emperor.
Mar 18, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Chalmers Johnson
Moses Goes Down Moses Goes Down
If upon reading the first sentence of Moses Isegawa's debut novel, Abyssinian Chronicles, in an Amsterdam bookstore a few years back, I quickly re-read it a few times and committ...
Mar 18, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Matt Steinglass
The Secret Sharer The Secret Sharer
Although the epigraph of Damon Galgut's novel is taken from Chekhov, it is the ghost of Graham Greene that hovers most palpably over The Good Doctor, and even in the cadence of i...
Mar 18, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Claire Messud
Accidental Friends Accidental Friends
"One does not jail Voltaire." So responded the president of France to calls that Jean-Paul Sartre be arrested for backing an independent Algeria.
Mar 18, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Russell Jacoby
Trying Saddam Trying Saddam
The capture of Saddam Hussein has raised the question of how best to hold him accountable for the horrendous human rights violations committed by his regime.
Mar 18, 2004 / Balakrishnan Rajagopal