Bush Finally Sees Poor People Bush Finally Sees Poor People
It takes a hurricane to raise awareness that the numbers of poor people are growing on George Bush's watch. Will that be enough for the President to begin to level the playing fiel...
Sep 20, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer
Visionaries Wanted Visionaries Wanted
New homes for those displaced by Hurricane Katrina need not be the penitentiary-style public housing we've come to dread. Bring in architects who know how to create human-scale dwe...
Sep 19, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Nicholas von Hoffman
Calling John Roberts’s Bluff Calling John Roberts’s Bluff
John Roberts, the President's nominee to become the seventeenth Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, says that the 1973 high court ruling that guaranteed a woman's right to choo...
Sep 19, 2005 / John Nichols
Who’s Really Screwing Up America? Who’s Really Screwing Up America?
If you want to understand how the right debases our political culture, take a peek at Bernard Goldberg's screed 100 People who are Screwing up America (And Al Franken is #37), whi...
Sep 19, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Open Letter to Laura Bush Open Letter to Laura Bush
Poet Sharon Olds writes an open letter to Laura Bush, explaining why she won't break bread at the White House.
Sep 19, 2005 / Sharon Olds
Left Behind: Bush’s Holy War on Nature Left Behind: Bush’s Holy War on Nature
Americans care about the environment, but the Bush Administration clearly doesn't. Blame it on Republican ideology and the apocalyptic religious sensibilities of his political base...
Prelude to an Exit Strategy Prelude to an Exit Strategy
As a handful of maverick lawmakers hold unofficial hearings on an Iraq exit strategy, how long will it take Democrats and Republicans on the Hill to recognize the growing distaste ...
Sep 16, 2005 / Ari Berman
Sweet Victory: Bridging the Health Gap Sweet Victory: Bridging the Health Gap
"It is time to come home, America. Time to look within our own borders and within our own souls," Sen. Robert Byrd said Tuesday on the Senate floor. "There are many questions to ...
Sep 16, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Support the St. Patrick’s Day Four Support the St. Patrick’s Day Four
On March 17, 2003, two days before the US invasion of Iraq commenced, four protesters--now known as the "Saint Patrick's Four"--entered a military recruiting center near Ithaca, N...
Sep 16, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
Bush’s Big (and Easy) Speech in New Orleans Bush’s Big (and Easy) Speech in New Orleans
George W. Bush does not do the Big Speech thing well. How many times has a fretting White House dispatched Bush to deliver a Big Speech to rally popular sup...
Sep 16, 2005 / David Corn