Crybaby Conservatives Crybaby Conservatives
As George W. Bush's poll numbers plummet, influential conservatives have diagnosed the cause of his misery: he's not conservative enough. Bush is just a softy moderate masqueradi...
May 15, 2006 / The Nation
This Bud’s Not for the World Cup This Bud’s Not for the World Cup
Soccer fans in Germany struck a blow against US corporate blandness by turning up their noses at the notion that Budweiser is the official beer of the games.
May 15, 2006 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
Kaiser Kidney Fiasco Part II Kaiser Kidney Fiasco Part II
Last week I wrote about the Los Angeles Times smart piece of investigative journalism on Kaiser Permanente's troubled kidney transplant program in California. As a result of th...
May 15, 2006 / The Nation
Foucault on The West Wing Foucault on The West Wing
Illegal wire-tapping, millions of civilian telephone records turned over to the NSA, National Guard troops "temporarily" deployed on the Mexican border, "extraordinary rendition" ...
May 15, 2006 / The Nation
Prime Time Bush Bull Prime Time Bush Bull
What will Bush really mean by sending "troops to the border" as anticipated in his Monday night speech on immigration. Probably a lot less than what it is implied as I explain he...
May 15, 2006 / The Nation
Reconstruction Watch Part 6 Reconstruction Watch Part 6
A non-profit company in El Paso -- The National Center for Employment of the Disabled (NCED) -- was raided last week by 70 federal agents investigating whether it violated the ter...
May 14, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Spymaster Disaster Spymaster Disaster
The CIA is in need of reinvention and a director who can oversee the transformation. Gen. Michael Hayden is not the right man for the job.
May 14, 2006 / The Editors
Had Enough? Had Enough?
Had Enough? It's a phrase Newt Gingrich adapted from an ad exec in 1946 and popularized. Now he's telling Democrats to use it against his own Party. For once, Democrats should he...
May 12, 2006 / The Nation
Anthems of Outrage Anthems of Outrage
The crankily contrarian Neil Young has a knack for making music that reflects the times. Living With War, his blistering attack on the Bush presidency, marks the turning of a cultu...
May 12, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Kevin McCarthy
So You Want to Be a Rock & Roll Star? So You Want to Be a Rock & Roll Star?
Remember when your parents used to say, if you study hard you can grow up to be President? Remember when it was, well, the job to aspire to? But what with Bush at 29 percent appr...
May 12, 2006 / The Nation