Sunday, Bloody Sunday Sunday, Bloody Sunday
A recent study by the non-profit Media Matters for America won't surprise Nation readers. The report, If it's Sunday, it's Conservative, demonstrates that conservative guests dram...
Feb 21, 2006 / Peter Rothberg
Cheney Stayed At Uncle Tom’s House Cheney Stayed At Uncle Tom’s House
Newsweek reported an interesting tidbit about Cheney's stay at the exclusive 50,000 acre preserve known as the Armstrong Ranch. It seems that the Vice-President's lodgings were in ...
Feb 21, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Carter: Don’t Punish the Palestinians Carter: Don’t Punish the Palestinians
The yahoo crowd that runs U.S. foreign policy has been struggling to figure out how to get to the right of Israeli's Likud Party when it comes to countering the decision of the Pal...
Feb 21, 2006 / John Nichols
Corporate Control of Ports Is the Problem — UPDATED Corporate Control of Ports Is the Problem — UPDATED
The problem with the Bush administration's support for a move by a United Arab Emirates-based firm to take over operation of six major American ports -- as well as the shipment of...
Feb 21, 2006 / John Nichols
Cheney Again Cheney Again
Jane Mayer's got a whopping-good piece in the latest New Yorker detailing the frustrated crusade of one Alberto J. Mora to stop the institutionalization of torture by Bush admini...
Feb 21, 2006 / Marc Cooper
A Report From The Frontlines Of American Poverty A Report From The Frontlines Of American Poverty
In these last couple days, I've been blogging about the shameful fact that America's minimum wage hasn't risen since 1997 and, adjusted for inflation, is at its lowest since 1956. ...
Feb 20, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Farewell to Ground Zero Farewell to Ground Zero
The structure of our Republic is at mortal risk. Will our Constitution survive or are we in the midst of a transmutation in which the balance of powers and our personal freedoms wi...
Feb 20, 2006 / Jonathan Schell
The Worst President Ever? The Worst President Ever?
In commemoration of President's Day, I dug up a December column by noted presidential biographer Richard Reeves entitled, "Is George Bush the Worst President--Ever?" Tur...
Feb 20, 2006 / Ari Berman
“He Ain’t Kinky, He’s My Governor.” “He Ain’t Kinky, He’s My Governor.”
In this era of ever-more-cautious electioneering, when consultants counsel contenders to stick to the safe, narrow and drab on the warped theory that the lowest common denominator...
Feb 20, 2006 / John Nichols
Only Pictures? Only Pictures?
Two prominent cartoon artists discuss their perspective on the worldwide protests over the Muhammad cartoons.
Feb 20, 2006 / Joe Sacco and Art Spiegelman