Wrong (Leahy) and right (Kennedy) on Roberts Wrong (Leahy) and right (Kennedy) on Roberts
Any doubts about whether the Bush administration's nominee to become the 17th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court will win the endorsement of the Senate Judiciary Committee c...
Sep 21, 2005 / John Nichols
The Red Cross: A Question of Competence The Red Cross: A Question of Competence
The Gulf Coast hurricanes have raised new questions about the integrity and competence of the American Red Cross to respond to national emergencies. In this report from The Nation...
Sep 21, 2005 / Feature / Linda Heller
Blackwater Down Blackwater Down
With military and law enforcement forces combing New Orleans in the wake of the storm, why did the federal government feel compelled to hire private security firms Blackwater USA a...
Sep 21, 2005 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill
Democrats Split on Roberts Nomination Democrats Split on Roberts Nomination
I interrupt the spirited debate raging in the comments section on whether we should care about the police records of Jeb Bush's children--and whether the...
Sep 21, 2005 / David Corn
Readers Respond to Sharon Olds Readers Respond to Sharon Olds
Readers respond to poet Sharon Olds's decision to decline Laura Bush's invitation to dine at the White House.
Sep 21, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Our Readers
One More Time–UPDATED One More Time–UPDATED
Scroll down for a new update on the St. Patrick's Day Four Trial. As antiwar sentiment keeps broadening and calls for withdrawal become more and more mainstream, this weekend's a...
Sep 21, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
Bush Dynasty: The Next Generation Bush Dynasty: The Next Generation
With the challenges and obligations created by the Katrina disaster, some political commentators have declared that George W. Bush's presidency is done, sug...
Sep 21, 2005 / David Corn
“We Can Do Better” “We Can Do Better”
"What does it mean to be poor in America? We can offer no single description of American poverty. But for many, perhaps most, it means homes with peeling paint, inadequate heating...
Sep 20, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Doing the Math Doing the Math
Here's how we identified more than 11,000 empty, rentable homes in New Orleans:
Sep 20, 2005 / Feature / Naomi Klein
Fear Itself Fear Itself
Some people are scaring themselves about the wrong things in ways that are doing terrorists' work for them. Here's one physician's prescription for bringing irrational fears under ...
Sep 20, 2005 / Dr. Marc Siegel