Gitmo’s Shame Gitmo’s Shame
You would hardly know it from watching the news or reading the papers, but there's a two-month-old hunger strike going on at Guantánamo Bay. After more than three years of intern...
Oct 5, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
‘Are You Going to Provide $5 Million for The Nation?’ ‘Are You Going to Provide $5 Million for The Nation?’
In a scathing report issued on September 30, the Government Accountability Office's investigators said the Bush Administration had broken the law by using taxpayer dollars to diss...
Oct 4, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Action-Figure Governator The Action-Figure Governator
Faced with an historic opportunity to give gay couples equal protection under the law, Arnold Schwarzenegger proved he was made of bendable plastic.
Oct 4, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer
Darwin and God Darwin and God
Darwin's discoveries about evolution never argued against the existence of God. And the theory of "intelligent design" is a dangerous attempt to undermine science and justify a lit...
Oct 4, 2005 / Dr. Marc Siegel
Bill Bennett’s Abortion Fantasies Bill Bennett’s Abortion Fantasies
What's really shocking about Bill Bennett's public fantasies of reducing crime by aborting black babies is the ease with which conservative critics cast lawlessness in racial terms...
Oct 4, 2005 / Mark Sorkin
Blacklist=Blackmarket Blacklist=Blackmarket
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Oct 3, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Dalton Trumbo
Not Since Nixon Not Since Nixon
More than three decades have passed since a President nominated someone without judicial experience to serve on the US Supreme Court. The last such nominations--those of William...
Oct 3, 2005 / John Nichols
Harriet Miers: Supreme Court Choice With Few Footprints Harriet Miers: Supreme Court Choice With Few Footprints
Here we go again. Another pick for the Supreme Court without much--or, in this case, any--judicial experience. And that will make it hard for senators--or a...
Oct 3, 2005 / David Corn
25 Questions About the Murder of New Orleans 25 Questions About the Murder of New Orleans
New Orleans did not die an accidental death--it was murdered by deliberate design and planned neglect. Here are twenty-five urgent questions from the people who live in a city subm...
Sep 30, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Mike Davis and Anthony Fontenot
Indicting the President’s Policies Indicting the President’s Policies
In Washington, where it is exceeding difficult to get the political players or the press corps to pay attention to more than one story at once, no0 one would suggest that it was "...
Sep 30, 2005 / John Nichols