An Unconstitutional Amendment An Unconstitutional Amendment
Last Thursday, in a close 49-42 vote, the Senate adopted South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham's amendment to a military budget bill restricting the authority of US courts to hold...
Nov 14, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
Bush Rewrites History To Criticize His Antiwar Critics Bush Rewrites History To Criticize His Antiwar Critics
In a Veterans Day speech on Friday, delivered to troops and others at the Tobyhanna Army Depot in Pennsylvania, George W. Bush veered from the usual commemo...
Nov 14, 2005 / David Corn
Cruising With Scheer Cruising With Scheer
On Thursday, the Los Angeles Times reported that, "In a major shakeup ofits editorial pages," it "...was discontinuing one of its most liberal columnists." Three days later that...
Nov 14, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Right to Trial Imperiled by Senate Vote Right to Trial Imperiled by Senate Vote
Civil libertarians were stunned last week when the Senate approved a measure that would allow government officials to essentially bypass the courts and lock up people suspected of ...
Nov 14, 2005 / Feature / Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith
God’s Pat Problem God’s Pat Problem
It cannot be easy being God these days, what with so many of His self-proclaimed followers launching wars in His name. So the last thing that the Almighty needs is a whackjob cal...
Nov 12, 2005 / John Nichols
Demand Peace Demand Peace
Medea Benjamin and Gayle Brandeis ask a good question for today's holiday in a new piece for The Nation online: "On Veteran's Day, when we honor all of those who have served our c...
Nov 11, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
Dictionary of Republicanisms Dictionary of Republicanisms
We did it! With the support of thenation.com's loyal readers, Nation Books has just published The Dictionary of Republicanisms--an attempt to call out and decode the right's well-...
Nov 11, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sweet Victory: Maine Voters Deny Discrimination Bill Sweet Victory: Maine Voters Deny Discrimination Bill
It was a Super Tuesday for Democrats. Gubernatorial candidates Jon Corzine (D-NJ) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) trounced their Republican counterparts, and California voters terminated all...
Nov 11, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Forcing Bush and Senate Republicans to Honor Veterans Forcing Bush and Senate Republicans to Honor Veterans
Former U.S. Senator Max Cleland, the Georgia Democrat who lost his right arm and both legs in the quagmire that was Vietnam, explained a few years ago that, "Within the soul of ea...
Nov 11, 2005 / John Nichols
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PARDON ME, DO YOU SPEAK LIBERAL? Bellingham, Wash.
Nov 10, 2005 / Eric Alterman, Doug Henwood, Sasha Abramsky, and Our Readers