Sweet Victory: Washington State Says No To Discrimination Sweet Victory: Washington State Says No To Discrimination
Co-written by Sam Graham-Felsen. Cal Anderson, Washington's first openly gay state congressman, spent each of his eight years in the legislature fighting for a gay rights bill wh...
Feb 4, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Stop the Gag on Global Warming–UPDATED Stop the Gag on Global Warming–UPDATED
Nation readers don't need me to tell them how frantically the Bush Administration tries to avoid both transparency and accountability. On issue after issue, the Bushies have worke...
Feb 3, 2006 / Peter Rothberg
Reap the Whirlwind Reap the Whirlwind
The rise of Samuel Alito and the death of Coretta Scott King mark the end of an era and the abandonment of our civil rights legacy by both political parties.
Feb 3, 2006 / Bruce Shapiro
“The Long War”? “The Long War”?
So, now, the Bush Administration has given an official name to the war on terrorism. "Long War." Who knows if this term will stick? Last August, Bush reached for his dict...
Feb 3, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Boehner in the Henhouse A Boehner in the Henhouse
Newly-selected House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, is getting some remarkably good press, considering his remarkably sordid political pedigree. ABC News referred to the g...
Feb 3, 2006 / John Nichols
Your New House Majority Leader Your New House Majority Leader
Rep. John Boehner, the Congressman of K Street, Sallie Mae, big tobacco and Jack Abramoff. In other words, a fitting heir to Tom DeLay.
Feb 2, 2006 / Ari Berman
A Real Alternative State of the Union A Real Alternative State of the Union
The antidote to President Bush's vapid and unrealistic repetition of increasingly dangerous delusions about everything from the continued occupation of Iraq to warrantless wiretapp...
Feb 2, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Letters Letters
FRA ANGELICO: NOT A BASEBALL New York City
Feb 2, 2006 / Arthur C. Danto and Our Readers
Coretta Scott King v. George Walker Bush Coretta Scott King v. George Walker Bush
President Bush may have tried to claim a little bit of the legacy of Coretta Scott King with a warm and generous reference to her passing at the opening of his State of the Union a...
Feb 2, 2006 / John Nichols