Recently added articles from The Nation:
True prophets.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
Apr 11, 2005; ... Atlanta * In these times of imperial overreach and the erosion of constitutional protections, there is plenty of reason, as Arthur Miller once wrote, to "tear at our collars and get red in the face" ["Arthur Miller," March 7]. Framed on my wall is a yellowed New York ...
Pension fund superheroes.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
Apr 11, 2005; ... Tucson * I am a Libertarian and a financial planner. I disagree with your politics on almost every issue. But William Greider's "The New Colossus" [Feb. 28], on pension funds' muscle, was brilliant. One thing I agree with is using financial clout to advance your agenda. We as ...
True profits.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
Apr 11, 2005; ... West Bridgewater, Mass. * As a progressive, for-profit social change organization, we were pleased to see Michael H. Shuman and Merrian Fuller's "Profits for Justice" [Jan. 24]. When we were dreaming up our organization in the mid-1980s we debated many of the pros and cons ...
The ex-terminator?(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
Apr 11, 2005; ... Hollis, NH * Apropos the troubles of Tom DeLay [Robert Grossman, "Glimmer of Hope Department," March 28]: <Pre>Patty-cake, patty-cake,Tommy the ...
Clarification.(Letters)(Correction Notice)
Apr 11, 2005 ... * The woman featured on our March 28 cover was Cindy Sheehan, ...
Hugo Chavez and Petro Populism.
Apr 11, 2005; ... The views from the slopes of Barrio San Agustin del Sur are spectacular. Tight passageways frame Caracas and the lush, cloud-draped Avila Mountain beyond. Along the neighborhood's rough cement steps, teenagers lounge around, flirting, arguing or lost in the cheap text-messaging functions ...
The minister of minstrelsy: meet Jesse Lee Peterson, who says what the right would like to, but can't.(Interview)
Apr 11, 2005; ... In late February, inside a sterile conference hall at Washington's premier conservative think tank, the Heritage Foundation, a crowd of no more than seventy took off their snow-flecked coats and settled in for an afternoon with a group of speakers billed as "The New Black Vanguard." ...
Backsliding in the Balkans.(Letter From Kosovo)
Apr 11, 2005; ... Ramush Haradinaj, who resigned as Kosovo's prime minister on March 8, had been expecting his indictment for alleged war crimes for almost three months. American and European diplomats spent much of that time coaxing him to surrender voluntarily when the announcement was made. "He started ...
Security the progressive way: the lockdown strategy has made America less safe. There's a better approach.
Apr 11, 2005; ... The Democratic Party is missing a golden opportunity to beat the GOP on homeland security issues. Although the 2004 election hinged on Americans' concerns about domestic terrorism, the Democrats typically give the subject unimaginative or predictable responses: Spend more money for first ...
Patriotism is nonpartisan: challenging a mistaken war can take more courage than fighting one.
Apr 11, 2005; ... There is a notion abroad in American politics, carefully crafted by its proponents, that is both disturbing and false. It is especially disturbing to me personally because it is frequently associated with my campaign for the presidency in 1972. The notion is that my party, and especially ...
The imagination of disaster.(Saturday by Ian McEwan)(Book Review)
Apr 11, 2005; ... Saturday. By Ian McEwan. Doubleday. 289 pp. $26. Saturday begins with its main character, Henry Perowne, getting out of bed because he's unable to sleep and going to stand by an open window. It is a chilly night, a Friday night, a few hours before dawn. ...
Dreams and delusions.(Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990-2003)(Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913)(The Conquest of Bread: 150 Years of Agribusiness in California)(The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire)(Photographing Farmworkers in California)(Book Review)
Apr 11, 2005; ... California inspires people to think big, and to write big books. Take, for example, Kevin Starr. As a graduate student at Harvard in the 1960s, Starr decided to write a history of California, his home state, organized around an idea: the dream of a good life for ordinary people. Now, ...
Quartet for the end of time.(Music - Hindu spirituality as well as the legacy of jazz masters have shaped the music of David Ware)
Apr 11, 2005; ... DAVID S. WARE When David Spencer Ware was a baby, his mother pronounced a blessing over him. Go See the World became the title of the saxophonist's first major-label record, for Columbia. Now, his new three-CD set suggests that he may have taken her mission statement a step ...
Habeas corpus.(Diary Of A Mad Law Professor)(analyzing implications of Terri Schiavo case)
Apr 11, 2005; ... There was an article in The New York Times Magazine not long ago about people who collect hyperrealistic "reborn" dolls. Reborning, we're told, "is the name that has emerged for a curious process of altering and enhancing a baby doll to look and even to feel as much like a human baby as ...
In re Rather: the target is journalism.(The Liberal Media)
Apr 11, 2005; ... That the resignation of Dan Rather from his CBS News anchor job is a humiliation for the so-called liberal media (SCLM) is taken as a given across the conservative and mainstream press. An unsigned Wall Street Journal editorial crowed of "A Media Watershed," celebrating "the end of the ...
Democrats: MIA.(Editorials)(Democrats back Republicans too often)(Editorial)
Apr 11, 2005 ... After giving George W. Bush far too easy a ride in his first term, the Democratic leadership in Congress promised that the second term was going to be different. "This is not a dictatorship," announced Senate minority leader Harry Reid. The new head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign ...
The Schiavo hypocrites.(Comment)
Apr 11, 2005 ... With their handling of the heart-wrenching Terri Schiavo case, George W. Bush and his Republican allies in tragedy exploitation were awash in the currency of Washington: hypocrisy. The party that has looked to cut Medicaid services to millions of poor Americans (to close a budget gap ...
Missing WMD report.(Comment)
Apr 11, 2005; ... When is a priority not a priority? When it's after the election. Last July the Senate Intelligence Committee released a much-anticipated report on the prewar intelligence on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The study concluded that the intelligence community--led by the ...
It's Easter: he is Recut.(Comment)(The Passion Recut)(Critical Essay)
Apr 11, 2005; ... No flaying below the belt: That's the guiding principle behind the kinder, gentler version of Mel Gibson's biblical blood fest, which has hit the cineplex in time for the Easter season. Aptly called The Passion Recut, it is six minutes shorter due to a trimming of gore that, Gibson hopes, ...
Elite protectionists.(Comment)(US should introduce import tariffs)
Apr 11, 2005; ... A man-bites-dog story of momentous implications is unfolding in Washington: The US multinational establishment, having successfully championed free-trade orthodoxy for decades, may now be flirting with protectionist heresy--a stiff tariff against China to stanch America's hemorrhaging ...