The Old and New Shapes of Nuclear Danger
Jonathan Schell : During the cold war, the driving force was the bilateral arms race; now it's proliferation.
The Editors on Iran, Bill Weinberg on Iraq's civil resistance, Benjamin Paloff on poetry.
Articles
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Iraq's Civil Resistance
Bill Weinberg : The secular left brings together unionists, women's organizations and students.
Letters
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Letters
Our Readers & Jim Sleeper : Letters on Steve Brodner's caricatures, Graham Usher's metaphors and an exchange between Jim Sleeper and Joe Klein.
Editorials & Comment
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Iran's Nukes Fade Away
: The revised National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's nukes makes a military strike less likely and opens the door to real diplomacy.
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Noted.
: Facebook's about-face on privacy; life in the Garden State; Midnight Oil's Peter Garrett, Australia's new environment minister.
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Ron Paul's Roots
Christopher Hayes : His phenomenal candidacy is giving the long-fractured libertarian movement a Kumbaya moment.
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Blackwater's Bu$ine$$
Jeremy Scahill : Undeterred by scandal, Blackwater's global business is booming and continues to pursue its political agenda from deep inside the Mitt Romney campaign.
Reviews
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film
Chaos, Clocks, Juxtapositions
Kent Jones : With the release of the Dylan pastiche I'm Not There, Todd Haynes revises our cultural memory by adjusting familiar clichés.
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book
A Kind of Waiting Always
Joshua Clover : A new book of Rod Smith's poems maps the geometry of social life in thoughts and phrases.
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book
The Madman and the Poet
Benjamin Paloff : In a new collection of poems by the mentally ill Czech dissident Ivan Blatný, the world and the poet's interpretations of it are continuously transforming.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
A Short Summary of What Karl Rove Now Says About the Origins of the War
Calvin Trillin : War? What war?
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DIARY OF A MAD LAW PROFESSOR
The Audacity of Oprah
Patricia J. Williams : The combined power of Oprah & Obama could reinvigorate our embattled political landscape.
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THE LIBERAL MEDIA
What's Really Wrong With the MSM?
Eric Alterman : They've lost our trust by providing conservatives a platform for deliberate deceptions, silencing reporters for revealing the truth and excusing their own self-serving behavior.
Web
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Bad Sex in the City
JoAnn Wypijewski : There's something untrustworthy about a man who can't conduct a decent affair. Rudy Giuliani never could.
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Hoodwinked in Bali on Carbon Credits
Daphne Wysham : A UN conference touts carbon trading as the best response to global warming. Why adopt a framework that pits rich against poor, exploits the indigenous and gives the biggest corporate offenders more power?
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Why I Won't Be Invited to Mitt Romney's White House
Annabelle Gurwitch : My top-ten list of reasons why I gave God the old heave-ho.
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TruthDig
Waterboarding Democracy
Robert Scheer : Why did four key members of Congress failed to inform the public and the 9/11 Commission about the use of torture on terror suspects?
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Torture Tapes: Failure at All Levels
Aziz Huq : CIA, Department of Justice, White House--and members of Congress--ran through every legal and procedural red light designed to prevent criminal conduct and its cover-up.
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Israel's Palestinians Speak Out
Nadim Rouhana : Israel's indigenous Palestinian population rejects the efforts of Israel and the United States to seal our fate as a permanent underclass in our own homeland.
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Bonfire of the Disney Princesses
Barbara Ehrenreich : Disney's idea of sex doesn't belong in the pre-K playroom. Parents, unite: make a holiday bonfire of all that plastic and tulle: let your girls be girls again.
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Southpaw
Sports 2007: It Was a Very Bad Year
Dave Zirin : Michael Vick's sentencing to twenty-three months in prison caps a depressing and scandalous year for professional sports.
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False Alarm
Ted Gup : A predawn fire drill propels a writer into an unexpected encounter with a former CIA director--and an unexpected lesson on the uses and limits of intelligence.
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It's Our Web
VideoNation : Stop corporate robots from taking over the Web. Freespeech.org explains how relentless marketing and data-mining puts your privacy in peril.
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Moral Compass
A Precious and Painful Vision of the Future
Al Gore : We have everything we need to address the environmental crisis, save perhaps political will. But political will is a renewable resource.
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Our Inalienable Human Rights
Alan Jenkins : Despite their political differences, Americans are strikingly united on the value of human rights, according to a new poll sponsored by The Nation.
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Setting the Record Straight on FISA
John Conyers : Civil liberties and national security are not contradictory: they are inextricably linked.
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Howl
Sovereign Wealth: Theirs, Not Ours
Nicholas von Hoffman : As the US economy sickens, foreign governments are on a shopping spree, scooping up bargains paid for by sovereign wealth funds.
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Fear on the Campaign Trail
Glenn Hurowitz : As Democratic candidates strive to keep their messages upbeat and cheerful, they should take a lesson from the environmental movement on the power of fear to motivate political change.
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Forum on Venezuela
Differing views on the defeat of constitutional reforms championed by President Hugo Chávez from Mark Weisbrot, Sujatha Fernandes, Chesa Boudin, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl and Greg Grandin.
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Chavismo and Democracy
Greg Grandin : An honest account of the referendum cuts through neoliberal propaganda and looks at what's really at stake.
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Progressive Change in Venezuela
Mark Weisbrot : The stuggle is not between pro-Chávez and anti-Chávez factions but between left and right.
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Behind the Student Movement's Victory
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl : First and foremost, Venezuelans rejected Chávez's political proposals.
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A Silver Lining for the Bolivarian Revolution
Chesa Boudin : Losing the referendum may be the best outcome for Chávez--and his movement.
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What Does the 'No' Vote Mean?
Sujatha Fernandes : The referendum defeat may temporarily revive a flagging opposition, but it does not spell the collapse of the movement Chávez has inspired.
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Thoughts for the Weary on Ending the War
Tom Hayden : Press Democratic front-runners on the tough questions and prepare for a real fight with whoever the Republican nominee turns out to be.
Cover by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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