Reconstruction Corruption Watch IV Reconstruction Corruption Watch IV
First, the company's own employee blows the whistle on its failure to use water purification equipment. And now a physician serving in Iraq ties an outbreak of bacterial infection...
Apr 10, 2006 / Adam Howard
Berlusconi Backfires Berlusconi Backfires
Following up on John Nichols' post about Silvio Berlusconi's likely election defeat, I'm posting a dispatch from our ace Washington intern Cora Currier, who lived in Italy and, unl...
Apr 10, 2006 / Ari Berman
Italy Votes for Withdrawal Italy Votes for Withdrawal
George Bush's second closest comrade in the neoconservative "coalition of the willing" occupiers of Iraq has been swept from power. And that means that Italy will soon wi...
Apr 10, 2006 / Adam Howard
When Will Democrats Break With Bush? When Will Democrats Break With Bush?
In light of the news that President Bush authorized a top Administration aide to use previously classified information as part of an orchestrated political attack on a prominent c...
Apr 10, 2006 / John Nichols
Pro-Immigrant Marches Surging Nationwide Pro-Immigrant Marches Surging Nationwide
For the second time in two weeks an American city was rocked Sunday by a pro-immigrant demonstration of undeniably historic magnitude. As many as a half-million people, wearing whi...
Apr 10, 2006 / Adam Howard
Where’s ‘Real Security’? Where’s ‘Real Security’?
Instead of parroting the Republicans' "tough" approach to national security, Democratic candidates should distinguish themselves from the Bush Administration by, for starters, sett...
Apr 9, 2006 / William D. Hartung
Taking Back the Faith Taking Back the Faith
Where are the progressive religious leaders who can fill the shoes of William Sloane Coffin?
Apr 9, 2006 / Feature / Dan Wakefield
No Turning Back No Turning Back
This week The Nation's lead editorial argues that progressives should join forces with immigrant advocates to create a broad social movement placing the rights of immigrants at th...
Apr 8, 2006 / Peter Rothberg
Letter From Baghdad: The Growing Sectarian Divide Letter From Baghdad: The Growing Sectarian Divide
Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army now confronts both the US Army and the Sunni insurgents.
Apr 8, 2006 / Feature / David Enders
Thin Reid: Harry KO’s Border Reform Thin Reid: Harry KO’s Border Reform
The perhaps fatal collapse Friday of a Senate compromise on sweeping and liberalized immigration reform was, in itself, not totally unpredictable. What might astound some, however...
Apr 8, 2006 / Adam Howard