Julian Brookes

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An Anxious World, Contemplating a Fiery Extinction, Turns to...Harvard
Thu Oct. 12, 2006 4:12 PM PDT

North Korean Nuclear Test Rattles Asia -- and Planet
Mon Oct. 9, 2006 12:05 PM PDT

Foley Investigations and Fresh Revelations
Mon Oct. 9, 2006 11:24 AM PDT

Mike DeWine, Cat Whisperer
Fri Oct. 6, 2006 5:08 PM PDT

Is "Salacious Exchanges With Underage Male Pages"-gate the Dems' October Surprise?
Thu Oct. 5, 2006 5:51 PM PDT

Fox: Republicans in Meltdown! Massive Losses! Hastert Must Go!
Thu Oct. 5, 2006 5:23 PM PDT

Foley: Who Knew What and When
Wed Oct. 4, 2006 1:17 PM PDT

Hastert Will Go -- It's the Disloyalty, Stupid
Wed Oct. 4, 2006 10:24 AM PDT

Salacious Exchanges With Underage Male Pages
Mon Oct. 2, 2006 6:26 PM PDT

Supreme Court Declines to Take Up Sex Toys
Mon Oct. 2, 2006 1:24 PM PDT

Foley Resigns Over Sexually Explicit Emails (Or, "...sick sick sick sick sick.")
Fri Sep. 29, 2006 1:29 PM PDT

Why Did Bush Want the NIE Released When It So Obviously Contradicts His Happy Talk?
Thu Sep. 28, 2006 6:05 PM PDT

Al Qaeda in Iraq: Calling all Weapons Experts
Thu Sep. 28, 2006 12:44 PM PDT

What Will Karl Rove Do This Time?
Tue Sep. 26, 2006 6:44 PM PDT

Unexploded Cluster Bombs Left Behind in Lebanon
Tue Sep. 26, 2006 3:34 PM PDT

UN: Gaza Crisis Intolerable
Tue Sep. 26, 2006 11:50 AM PDT

Gordon Brown: Too Different From Blair...and Too Similar
Mon Sep. 25, 2006 1:37 PM PDT

Iraq and Global Jihad
Mon Sep. 25, 2006 11:24 AM PDT

Census Bureau Loses 100s of Laptops
Fri Sep. 22, 2006 5:49 PM PDT

Democrats' Strategy on the War on Terror
Fri Sep. 22, 2006 5:26 PM PDT

Branson Sees a Business Opportunity in the Global Warming Crisis
Fri Sep. 22, 2006 3:43 PM PDT

Hugo Chavez: Mediocrity or Thug? (Or Both?)
Fri Sep. 22, 2006 12:16 PM PDT

U.N. Says Guantanamo Facilitates Torture
Thu Sep. 21, 2006 5:02 PM PDT

British Royal Society Slams ExxonMobil on Global Warming
Thu Sep. 21, 2006 1:30 PM PDT

Iraq: Kidnappers Use Victims as Unwitting Bombers
Thu Sep. 21, 2006 12:01 PM PDT

Obama: Debate About National Security? Bring It.
Thu Sep. 21, 2006 11:26 AM PDT

Good News! Federal Court Reinstates Roadless Rule
Wed Sep. 20, 2006 3:52 PM PDT

Media Coverage of Voting Shenanigans Needs to Improve
Wed Sep. 20, 2006 1:02 PM PDT

Opposing Torture Hurts McCain in 2008? (That's Sick.)
Tue Sep. 19, 2006 6:04 PM PDT

When Even Kerry Gets Religion It's Time to Start Praying
Tue Sep. 19, 2006 3:16 PM PDT

Gore Speech on Global Warming: "An opportunity for bipartisanship and transcendence"
Tue Sep. 19, 2006 1:09 PM PDT

New York Times Appoints a Futurist-in-Residence (A Sure Sign the Future is Now Pass&eacute)
Tue Sep. 19, 2006 12:07 PM PDT

Military Coup in Thailand
Tue Sep. 19, 2006 11:20 AM PDT

Bush Admin Takes War on Drugs to YouTube
Mon Sep. 18, 2006 6:12 PM PDT

Iraq Reporting Should Come With a Warning
Mon Sep. 18, 2006 4:16 PM PDT

Red Letter Christians: Religious Values Go Beyond Same Sex Marriage and Abortion
Mon Sep. 18, 2006 3:22 PM PDT

Election 2006: Get Ready for "Major" Voting Problems
Mon Sep. 18, 2006 12:20 PM PDT

Ney Pleads Guilty, Could Face 2 Years in Jail
Fri Sep. 15, 2006 2:18 PM PDT

Money Can't Buy Happiness. Yes It Can.
Fri Sep. 15, 2006 11:36 AM PDT

Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers
Fri Sep. 15, 2006 10:57 AM PDT

Tracing the Digital Trails We Leave -- and Government Follows
Thu Sep. 14, 2006 4:11 PM PDT

Princeton: Diebold's Newest Voting Machine...Sucks
Thu Sep. 14, 2006 3:51 PM PDT

Politicians Cast Opponents as Villains. No, Really.
Thu Sep. 14, 2006 3:16 PM PDT

Palestinian Refugees Targeted by Shia Militia
Thu Sep. 14, 2006 2:45 PM PDT

Amnesty: Hizbollah Guilty of War Crimes
Thu Sep. 14, 2006 2:30 PM PDT

Camel Jockeys in Dubai's Sinister Paradise
Thu Sep. 14, 2006 1:20 PM PDT

House Intel Report on Iran: "Erroneous, Misleading and Unsubstantiated"
Thu Sep. 14, 2006 12:49 PM PDT

U.S. Can't Stay in Iraq and Can't Leave
Thu Sep. 14, 2006 12:43 PM PDT

Voting Glitches on Primary Day
Thu Sep. 14, 2006 12:22 PM PDT

Judge to Saddam: "You Are Not A Dictator"
Thu Sep. 14, 2006 11:16 AM PDT

Iraq, Bush and Writing Long: Interview with Tom Engelhardt

Meet the man behind the obsessional, addictive Tomdispatch.

Tue Dec. 19, 2006 1:00 AM PST

The Permanent Energy Crisis: Interview with Michael T. Klare

On the costs and consequences of the United States' dependency on foreign oil

Mon Jun. 19, 2006 12:00 AM PDT

The Dolphin Defender: Hardy Jones on filmmaking and conservation

Filmmaker Hardy Jones on reasons for hope in a sea of troubles.

Wed Mar. 1, 2006 1:00 AM PST

Kwame Anthony Appiah on How to Be a Citizen of the World

A philosopher issues a call for a pragmatic, humane stance toward difference in a world of strangers.

Thu Feb. 23, 2006 1:00 AM PST

My Holy War: Jonathan Raban On Our New Era of Religious Ferocity

In a series of essays, a novelist examines our new era of "religious ferocity."

Thu Feb. 23, 2006 1:00 AM PST

Postwar: An Interview with Tony Judt

The fall of Communism didn't just change Europe's future; it transformed its past.

Tue Dec. 20, 2005 1:00 AM PST

Lawless World: How the US is wrecking international law

The United States is wrecking the international legal order?against its own interests.

Mon Dec. 19, 2005 1:00 AM PST

The Collapse of Globalism: An Interview with John Ralston Saul

The more extravagant promises of globalization theory have come to naught. Where do we go from here?

Wed Nov. 9, 2005 1:00 AM PST

Three Billion New Capitalists: Interview with Clyde Prestowitz

On current trends the US is headed for serious economic trouble.

Wed Nov. 9, 2005 1:00 AM PST

The Turks Today: An Interview with Andrew Mango

In time, Turkey will become a fully modern liberal democracy, E.U. membership or no.

Wed Oct. 26, 2005 12:00 AM PDT

Interview: Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century

Welcome to the New European Century

Tue Oct. 18, 2005 12:00 AM PDT

Steal This Vote: An Interview with Andrew Gumbel

The US electoral system is deeply dysfunctional?and always has been.

Tue Oct. 18, 2005 12:00 AM PDT

Hugo Chavez and His Bolivarian Revolution

A veteran Latin America correspondent on the past, present, and possible future of Venezuela's president.

Tue Oct. 4, 2005 12:00 AM PDT

Return to Greatness: An Interview with Alan Wolfe

Goodness isn't good enough, says Alan Wolfe. America is best when it strives for greatness.

Tue Apr. 19, 2005 12:00 AM PDT

Who She Was: An Interview With Samuel G. Freedman

A son's search for his mother's life—and for atonement

Wed Apr. 13, 2005 12:00 AM PDT

Free World

A British historian of the present ponders America, Europe and the future of the West.

Mon Nov. 22, 2004 1:00 AM PST

Nailing the Hammer: An Interview with Lou Dubose

A veteran Texas journalist ponders the astonishing rise -- and likely fall -- of Tom DeLay.

Wed Oct. 27, 2004 12:00 AM PDT

Media Event

The public may or may not care about the conventions, but the news media <i>loves</i> them.

Mon Jul. 26, 2004 12:00 AM PDT

Charles Lewis: Clipping the Presidential Price Tag

Yes, the Oval Office is for sale again, and Charles Lewis is back to tell the world who the buyers are.

Mon Mar. 29, 2004 1:00 AM PST

An Interview With Dan Perkins, aka Tom Tomorrow

Tomorrow's Modern World

January/February 2001 Issue

Day Early and a Dollar Short
May/June 1999 Issue

A Helping Hand
March/April 1999 Issue

Prison Keepsake
November/December 1998 Issue

Product Placement

Magnavox Remote Locator (Philips Electronics) .95

November/December 1998 Issue

Sailing Out

<I>The Nation</i> invites you and your favorite columnists on a fun-filled Caribbean fundraising cruise (please ignore the environmental violations and underpaid workers).

September/October 1998 Issue

Tobacco and Rupe

Secret documents show that Philip Morris loves Rupert Murdoch's tobacco-friendly media. That might explain why he's on their board.

Tue Aug. 25, 1998 12:00 AM PDT