Feingold’s Frustrating Fight to Fix Patriot Act Feingold’s Frustrating Fight to Fix Patriot Act
The Patriot Act needs to be reformed so that it can serve as a legitimate national security tool without undermining basic liberties. That's the view of legal scholars, civil liber...
Feb 15, 2006 / John Nichols
Birdshot = WMD? Birdshot = WMD?
For Bill Clinton it was a stain on a blue GAP dress; might Cheney's Waterloo be an errant spray of birdshot? The way the normally dormant Washington press corps has seized upon thi...
Feb 15, 2006 / Richard Kim
Impeachment Is Coming? Impeachment Is Coming?
Has Paul Weyrich, a founding father of the modern conservative movement, been reading The Nation? Via TAPPED, I see that Weyrich is ringing alarm bells over the possibility of Dem...
Feb 15, 2006 / Ari Berman
Shoot First, Blame Others Later Shoot First, Blame Others Later
Time and again, all we've asked of our government is simple honesty. In the war with Iraq, we wanted an honest assessment of the situation. According to the top CIA Middle East ana...
Feb 15, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Cheney, “A Beer or Two” and a Gun — UPDATED Cheney, “A Beer or Two” and a Gun — UPDATED
Vice President Dick Cheney, who was forced to leave Yale University because his penchant for late-night beer drinking exceeded his devotion to his studies, and who is one of the s...
Feb 15, 2006 / John Nichols
In Your Dreams, Condi In Your Dreams, Condi
Condoleezza Rice's myopic optimism mirrors that of the delusional Dick Cheney: Witness her refusal to be alarmed by rise of Moqtada al Sadr.
Feb 15, 2006 / Column / Robert Scheer
Freezing Their Assets Freezing Their Assets
Among the superrich, there's a growing desire to freeze themselves and their bank accounts in hopes of rising again. Talk about Groundhog Day.
Feb 14, 2006 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
V-Day or P-Day? V-Day or P-Day?
Today is Valentine's Day, which on campus means V-Day--over 1,000 productions of The Vagina Monologues will be taking place across the nation to raise funds for battered women's sh...
Feb 14, 2006 / Katha Pollitt
Keeping it Real Keeping it Real
The New York Times has an interesting story on street fiction, the ever-rising genre of "urban" (read: Black) fiction that is moving from stalls on Brooklyn's Fulton Street to Ma...
Feb 14, 2006 / The Nation
An Analysis of Sunday Talk Shows An Analysis of Sunday Talk Shows
In my post on Sunday, How The Mainstream Media Is Missing What's Mainstream, I referred to a forthcoming Media Matters report on skewing to the Right on our Sunday talk shows. The ...
Feb 14, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel