Limbo to Close: Mass Evictions Expected Limbo to Close: Mass Evictions Expected
The Vatican is about to close limbo, the theological netherworld where unbaptized babies, prophets and philosophers were believed to reside in lieu of heaven. This is causing a who...
Dec 13, 2005 / Feature / Nicholas von Hoffman
The Faith of Eugene McCarthy The Faith of Eugene McCarthy
Eugene McCarthy, the Minnesota senator, frequent presidential candidate and poet who died Saturday at age 89, never had a chance at the Democratic nomination in 1968. But his passi...
Dec 13, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Robert Sherrill
The Limits of Power The Limits of Power
Sometime in the mid-1990s, after it had become quite clear that Bill Clinton's presidency would deliver rather less than had been hoped, and when it was becoming clear that Newt G...
Dec 12, 2005 / John Nichols
Lying, Dirty Tricksters Lying, Dirty Tricksters
"We call our stuff information and the enemy's propaganda," says Col. Jack N. Summe, former commander of the Fourth Psychological Operations Group, in Jeff Gerth's masterful, must...
Dec 12, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Remembering Eugene McCarthy Remembering Eugene McCarthy
Eugene McCarthy's political life was full of contradictions: A conventional cold war liberal and fierce anti-Communist, in the Vietnam era, he was transformed into the standard-bea...
Dec 12, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
Last-Minute Gift Ideas Last-Minute Gift Ideas
If you're really organized you've already completed your holiday shopping for the year. If so, you can take a break from this column. But if you're like me and still looking for h...
Dec 11, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
Eugene McCarthy’s Lyrical Politics Eugene McCarthy’s Lyrical Politics
Even the poets are restless now. They¡¦re not content to go along with Shelley and be the unacknowledged legislators of the world. They want to be acknowledged just a little bit...
Dec 11, 2005 / John Nichols
Amid Hostage Vigils, Peace Work Endures Amid Hostage Vigils, Peace Work Endures
The remaining members of the Christian Peacemaker Teams in Baghdad say their work will go on regardless of what happens to their four colleagues still held hostage. CPT workers wer...
Dec 10, 2005 / Feature / David Enders
Feingold to Fight Patriot Act Reauthorization Feingold to Fight Patriot Act Reauthorization
Four years ago, when U.S. Senator Russ Feingold stood alone in the Senate to oppose the Bush administration's Patriot Act, he was portrayed as a political fringe dweller whose det...
Dec 10, 2005 / John Nichols
The Outsider The Outsider
Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker movement, died 25 years ago this month. Today Catholic Workers are in Cuba, keeping vigil outside the US Naval Prison at Guantanamo Bay ...
Dec 10, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Colman McCarthy