Double, Double Toil and Trouble Double, Double Toil and Trouble
"Is it just my imagination, or are women wreaking more evil than usual these days?"
Dec 4, 2006 / Column / Katha Pollitt
The ‘Seattle Senators’ The ‘Seattle Senators’
Newly elected advocates of fair trade in the House and Senate could reverse the free-trade absolutism of the Clinton and Bush years.
Dec 4, 2006 / John Nichols
Pinochet Death Watch Pinochet Death Watch
Who's going to definitively catch former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet first? The slow, grinding wheels of earthly justice or the swift ruthlessness of the Grim Reaper? Just ...
Dec 4, 2006 / The Nation
Nancy Pelosi and Impeachment Nancy Pelosi and Impeachment
This coming Tuesday, in San Francisco, the official canvass of the results of the November 7 election must be completed and those results will be certified. On that day, this wil...
Dec 3, 2006 / The Nation
Breathing While Black Breathing While Black
A young black man and an elderly black woman each die in a hail of police bullets; a comedian invokes the era of lynching--suddenly it feels like a crime to be caught breathing whi...
Dec 2, 2006 / Feature / Christopher Rabb
Make It a Mandate for Peace Make It a Mandate for Peace
Peace and social justice groups have formed a new Mandate for Peace coalition to pressure incoming Democratic majorities in the House and Senate to use the power they will assume ...
Dec 2, 2006 / John Nichols
Olbermann’s Hot News Olbermann’s Hot News
News flash: Dissent sells! And the American public does have a taste for serious, high-minded news.
Dec 2, 2006 / Daphne Eviatar
Malachi Ritscher R. I. P. Malachi Ritscher R. I. P.
The Iraq war has produced too many tragedies to count. And in the spectrum of them, from innocent children killed by errant fire, cluster bombs or car bombs, to American soldiers ...
Dec 1, 2006 / The Nation
New Leadership in AIDS Fight New Leadership in AIDS Fight
"This year, on World AIDS Day, we are reminded of the rapidly rising rate of HIV/AIDS and its devastating impact on communities around the world. The global AIDS epidemic has clai...
Dec 1, 2006 / The Nation
A Way Out A Way Out
In the Washington Post yesterday, Dana Milbank wrote, "Political Washington is in a state of suspended animation these days…leaders of both parties seem unable to do much more t...
Dec 1, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel