With Friends Like This… With Friends Like This…
An endorsement from James Dobson is scary enough, but the vituperative attack on Harriet Miers by the right raises other questions about why some conservatives are agitated about h...
Oct 11, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer
Ten Questions for Harriet Miers Ten Questions for Harriet Miers
Corporate power and money control our lives and our politics as never before. As the Senate Judiciary Committee prepares for Harriet Miers's nomination hearings, here are ten lega...
Oct 11, 2005 / Morton Mintz
What’s The Matter With What’s The Matter With Kansas What’s The Matter With What’s The Matter With Kansas
I'm a Tom Frank fan. I think he's a wonderful and passionate writer. But, now a respected political scientist is arguing that the "Great Backlash" Frank chronicled in his last boo...
Oct 11, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Rove Scandal: New Mysteries, New Props, New Legal Theories Rove Scandal: New Mysteries, New Props, New Legal Theories
The Plame/CIA leak case is getting what all good scandals need: props. We now have the "missing notebook" and the "missing email." The "missing note...
Oct 10, 2005 / David Corn
Anti-Bush in the Afterlife Anti-Bush in the Afterlife
Sally Baron is not alone in the afterlife. The Wisconsin woman whose August, 2003, obituary created a nation sensation with Americans who had come to resent George W. Bush's disr...
Oct 10, 2005 / John Nichols
Sweet Victory: Cintas Workers Win Big Sweet Victory: Cintas Workers Win Big
In 1999 Cintas Corp, the largest uniformrental provider in the country, signed a contract with Hayward,California to become the officiallaunderer of the city's uniforms. As a cond...
Oct 8, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Melting Away Melting Away
Geophysicists are debating whether recent catastrophic storms signal an abrupt climate change that will trigger seasons of permanent icelessness in the Atlantic and return the eart...
Oct 7, 2005 / Feature / Mike Davis
The Killing of Filiberto Ojeda Ríos The Killing of Filiberto Ojeda Ríos
When the FBI hunted down and killed one of its most wanted fugitives in September, outrage over the botched operation may have energized the Puerto Rican independence movement.
Oct 7, 2005 / Feature / Félix Jiménez
Rove Scandal: Karl Returns to the CIA Leak Grand Jury Rove Scandal: Karl Returns to the CIA Leak Grand Jury
Email is flying, cell phones are humming, Blackberries are bursting. All with the news--broken by Associated Press--that Rove asked to testify one mo' time ...
Oct 7, 2005 / David Corn
A Mess of George Bush’s Own Making A Mess of George Bush’s Own Making
It is fair to say that a good many Americans perceive George W. Bush to be a doltish incompetent who does not know the first thing about fighting terrorism. But, whatever the pre...
Oct 6, 2005 / John Nichols