Julian Brookes

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An Anxious World, Contemplating a Fiery Extinction, Turns to...Harvard
Thu Oct. 12, 2006 3:12 PM PDT

North Korean Nuclear Test Rattles Asia -- and Planet
Mon Oct. 9, 2006 11:05 AM PDT

Foley Investigations and Fresh Revelations
Mon Oct. 9, 2006 10:24 AM PDT

Mike DeWine, Cat Whisperer
Fri Oct. 6, 2006 4:08 PM PDT

Is "Salacious Exchanges With Underage Male Pages"-gate the Dems' October Surprise?
Thu Oct. 5, 2006 4:51 PM PDT

Fox: Republicans in Meltdown! Massive Losses! Hastert Must Go!
Thu Oct. 5, 2006 4:23 PM PDT

Foley: Who Knew What and When
Wed Oct. 4, 2006 12:17 PM PDT

Hastert Will Go -- It's the Disloyalty, Stupid
Wed Oct. 4, 2006 9:24 AM PDT

Salacious Exchanges With Underage Male Pages
Mon Oct. 2, 2006 5:26 PM PDT

Supreme Court Declines to Take Up Sex Toys
Mon Oct. 2, 2006 12:24 PM PDT

Foley Resigns Over Sexually Explicit Emails (Or, "...sick sick sick sick sick.")
Fri Sep. 29, 2006 12:29 PM PDT

Why Did Bush Want the NIE Released When It So Obviously Contradicts His Happy Talk?
Thu Sep. 28, 2006 5:05 PM PDT

Al Qaeda in Iraq: Calling all Weapons Experts
Thu Sep. 28, 2006 11:44 AM PDT

What Will Karl Rove Do This Time?
Tue Sep. 26, 2006 5:44 PM PDT

Unexploded Cluster Bombs Left Behind in Lebanon
Tue Sep. 26, 2006 2:34 PM PDT

UN: Gaza Crisis Intolerable
Tue Sep. 26, 2006 10:50 AM PDT

Gordon Brown: Too Different From Blair...and Too Similar
Mon Sep. 25, 2006 12:37 PM PDT

Iraq and Global Jihad
Mon Sep. 25, 2006 10:24 AM PDT

Census Bureau Loses 100s of Laptops
Fri Sep. 22, 2006 4:49 PM PDT

Democrats' Strategy on the War on Terror
Fri Sep. 22, 2006 4:26 PM PDT

Branson Sees a Business Opportunity in the Global Warming Crisis
Fri Sep. 22, 2006 2:43 PM PDT

Hugo Chavez: Mediocrity or Thug? (Or Both?)
Fri Sep. 22, 2006 11:16 AM PDT

U.N. Says Guantanamo Facilitates Torture
Thu Sep. 21, 2006 4:02 PM PDT

British Royal Society Slams ExxonMobil on Global Warming
Thu Sep. 21, 2006 12:30 PM PDT

Iraq: Kidnappers Use Victims as Unwitting Bombers
Thu Sep. 21, 2006 11:01 AM PDT

Obama: Debate About National Security? Bring It.
Thu Sep. 21, 2006 10:26 AM PDT

Good News! Federal Court Reinstates Roadless Rule
Wed Sep. 20, 2006 2:52 PM PDT

Media Coverage of Voting Shenanigans Needs to Improve
Wed Sep. 20, 2006 12:02 PM PDT

Opposing Torture Hurts McCain in 2008? (That's Sick.)
Tue Sep. 19, 2006 5:04 PM PDT

When Even Kerry Gets Religion It's Time to Start Praying
Tue Sep. 19, 2006 2:16 PM PDT

Gore Speech on Global Warming: "An opportunity for bipartisanship and transcendence"
Tue Sep. 19, 2006 12:09 PM PDT

New York Times Appoints a Futurist-in-Residence (A Sure Sign the Future is Now Pass&eacute)
Tue Sep. 19, 2006 11:07 AM PDT

Military Coup in Thailand
Tue Sep. 19, 2006 10:20 AM PDT

Bush Admin Takes War on Drugs to YouTube
Mon Sep. 18, 2006 5:12 PM PDT

Iraq Reporting Should Come With a Warning
Mon Sep. 18, 2006 3:16 PM PDT

Red Letter Christians: Religious Values Go Beyond Same Sex Marriage and Abortion
Mon Sep. 18, 2006 2:22 PM PDT

Election 2006: Get Ready for "Major" Voting Problems
Mon Sep. 18, 2006 11:20 AM PDT

Ney Pleads Guilty, Could Face 2 Years in Jail
Fri Sep. 15, 2006 1:18 PM PDT

Money Can't Buy Happiness. Yes It Can.
Fri Sep. 15, 2006 10:36 AM PDT

Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers
Fri Sep. 15, 2006 9:57 AM PDT

Tracing the Digital Trails We Leave -- and Government Follows
Thu Sep. 14, 2006 3:11 PM PDT

Princeton: Diebold's Newest Voting Machine...Sucks
Thu Sep. 14, 2006 2:51 PM PDT

Politicians Cast Opponents as Villains. No, Really.
Thu Sep. 14, 2006 2:16 PM PDT

Palestinian Refugees Targeted by Shia Militia
Thu Sep. 14, 2006 1:45 PM PDT

Amnesty: Hizbollah Guilty of War Crimes
Thu Sep. 14, 2006 1:30 PM PDT

Camel Jockeys in Dubai's Sinister Paradise
Thu Sep. 14, 2006 12:20 PM PDT

House Intel Report on Iran: "Erroneous, Misleading and Unsubstantiated"
Thu Sep. 14, 2006 11:49 AM PDT

U.S. Can't Stay in Iraq and Can't Leave
Thu Sep. 14, 2006 11:43 AM PDT

Voting Glitches on Primary Day
Thu Sep. 14, 2006 11:22 AM PDT

Judge to Saddam: "You Are Not A Dictator"
Thu Sep. 14, 2006 10:16 AM PDT

Iraq, Bush and Writing Long: Interview with Tom Engelhardt

Meet the man behind the obsessional, addictive Tomdispatch.

Tue Dec. 19, 2006 12:00 AM PST

The Permanent Energy Crisis: Interview with Michael T. Klare

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

Sun Jun. 18, 2006 11:00 PM 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 12:00 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 12:00 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 12:00 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 12:00 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 12:00 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 12:00 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 12:00 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.

Tue Oct. 25, 2005 11:00 PM PDT

Interview: Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century

Welcome to the New European Century

Mon Oct. 17, 2005 11:00 PM PDT

Steal This Vote: An Interview with Andrew Gumbel

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

Mon Oct. 17, 2005 11:00 PM PDT

Hugo Chavez and His Bolivarian Revolution

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

Mon Oct. 3, 2005 11:00 PM 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.

Mon Apr. 18, 2005 11:00 PM PDT

Who She Was: An Interview With Samuel G. Freedman

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

Tue Apr. 12, 2005 11:00 PM PDT

Free World

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

Mon Nov. 22, 2004 12:00 AM PST

Nailing the Hammer: An Interview with Lou Dubose

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

Tue Oct. 26, 2004 11:00 PM PDT

Media Event

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

Sun Jul. 25, 2004 11:00 PM 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 12:00 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.

Mon Aug. 24, 1998 11:00 PM PDT