The Rule of Law versus The Rule of Cheney The Rule of Law versus The Rule of Cheney
In the moment of executive excess, when abuses of the powers of the presidency and -- thanks to Dick Cheney's contributions to the crisis -- the vice presidency are so threatening...
Feb 22, 2006 / John Nichols
Looking for Votes in All the Wrong Places Looking for Votes in All the Wrong Places
In 2004, the Bush-Cheney campaign asked conservative activists to send them their church membership directories for political organizing purposes. Although most religious leaders...
Feb 22, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
In Defense of Free Thought In Defense of Free Thought
An Austrian court sends a crackpot historian to prison for denying the Holocaust; why shouldn't Muslims protesting the Muhammad cartoons question a double standard?
Feb 22, 2006 / Column / Robert Scheer
California Death Penalty Melt-Down California Death Penalty Melt-Down
It's getting rather macabre up in San Quentin's death chamber. For two nights in a row convicted killer Michael Morales was scheduled to die by lethal injection. Two times he didn'...
Feb 22, 2006 / Marc Cooper
Alice Walton’s Fig Leaf Alice Walton’s Fig Leaf
Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton is on a buying spree, filling her Arkansas museum with America's cultural treasures--a fig leaf that seeks to cover Wal-Mart's naked greed and exploit...
Feb 21, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Solnit
Revisionist History Revisionist History
Francis Fukuyama's 1992 book The End of History was arguably the most influential post-Cold War neoconservative tract. But for some time Fukuyama's been uneasy with his fellow neoc...
Feb 21, 2006 / Ari Berman
Juan Cole, the UN and Iraq Juan Cole, the UN and Iraq
Juan Cole's invaluable blog is of special interest today. Cole calls for the United Nations to set a clear timetable for US withdrawal from Iraq. He says it is an important opportu...
Feb 21, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Elegy for GM–and Ourselves Elegy for GM–and Ourselves
When General Motors goes down, it will take us all down with it.
Feb 21, 2006 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
Sunday, Bloody Sunday Sunday, Bloody Sunday
A recent study by the non-profit Media Matters for America won't surprise Nation readers. The report, If it's Sunday, it's Conservative, demonstrates that conservative guests dram...
Feb 21, 2006 / Peter Rothberg
Cheney Stayed At Uncle Tom’s House Cheney Stayed At Uncle Tom’s House
Newsweek reported an interesting tidbit about Cheney's stay at the exclusive 50,000 acre preserve known as the Armstrong Ranch. It seems that the Vice-President's lodgings were in ...
Feb 21, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel