Hastert Trashes Hayden Hastert Trashes Hayden
General Michael Hayden is getting a warm reception from the Senate Intelligence Committee, who gets first dibs on his nomination as CIA director. But elsewhere on the Hill promine...
May 9, 2006 / The Nation
Bonding With the Babe Bonding With the Babe
Bashing Barry Bonds has become a national sport, as the flawed slugger nears matching Babe Ruth's record. But hasn't anyone considered the faults of the Babe?
May 8, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Dave Zirin
Ray McGovern for CIA Director Ray McGovern for CIA Director
Here's an idea…. instead of appointing the chief architect of the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program, Gen. Michael Hayden, as the new CIA Director--how about the chief archit...
May 8, 2006 / The Nation
Sex, Limos and Government Contracts Sex, Limos and Government Contracts
"The Culture of Corruption" is a clever alliteration, a catchy political phrase, but without a vivid image to bring it to life, it amounts to a series of statistics: the increase ...
May 8, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
“The Only Hookers Fox WON’T Cover” “The Only Hookers Fox WON’T Cover”
As far as scandals are concerned, the widening investigation into former Rep. Duke Cunningham has got it all. The drumroll, in no specific order: Prostitutes. Poker. The Waterga...
May 8, 2006 / The Nation
Forecast for Snow Forecast for Snow
When government refuses to explain itself, it's up to journalists to discover the truth. As Tony Snow debuts as White House Press Secretary, will answers on Porter Goss be forthcom...
Blackout Blackout
Is it possible that George W. Bush didn't know that there are, um, blacks in Brazil? Some have long thought that such a notion -- first aired a couple of years ago-- was an urban ...
May 8, 2006 / The Nation
Sweet Victory: States Make DREAM a Reality Sweet Victory: States Make DREAM a Reality
Co-written by Sam Graham-Felsen. Last week, hundreds of thousands of high school students across the country made the choice that will help shape their futures for years to come-...
May 7, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Hunger for Justice A Hunger for Justice
Twenty-five years ago, IRA prisoner Bobby Sands died after a sixty-six day hunger strike. Today political prisoners from Guantánamo to Iran, Turkey and Eastern Europe contin...
May 6, 2006 / Feature / Denis O’Hearn
Goss in the Cold: A Scandal Skedaddle? Goss in the Cold: A Scandal Skedaddle?
A bolt out of the blue? Or a bolt?
Porter Goss's sudden announcement of his departure from the CIA is puzzling. The former Republican chairman of th...
May 5, 2006 / David Corn