The Standard-Bearers The Standard-Bearers
In a 1990 cover story for The Nation, Contributing Editor Kai Bird called Jimmy Carter "the very model of an ex-president." He described his work on human rights, educat...
Mar 16, 2006 / Adam Howard
George W. Bush’s Approach to Maintaining Constitutional Rule in a Democracy Through a Series of Checks and Balances George W. Bush’s Approach to Maintaining Constitutional Rule in a Democracy Through a Series of Checks and Balances
Bush's approach to maintaining control: Can you say Caine Mutiny?
Mar 16, 2006 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Patriot Act Post-Mortem Patriot Act Post-Mortem
The failure of a complaisant, Republican-controlled Congress to enact meaningful changes to the Patriot Act means that midterm elections are the only true path to reform.
Mar 16, 2006 / David Cole
An American Inquisition? An American Inquisition?
The case of an architect who lost lucrative contracts because of his interest in the Palestinian cause underscores how Americans are becoming inured to enforced patriotism and ideo...
Mar 16, 2006 / The Editors
Too Hot for New York Too Hot for New York
My Name Is Rachel Corrie was a big hit in London, but the New York Theatre Workshop backed off from producing the play. Why is it so hard for Americans to have a healthy debate abo...
Mar 16, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Philip Weiss
Who Knew? GOP says Feingold’s Setting Dem Agenda Who Knew? GOP says Feingold’s Setting Dem Agenda
The Republican National Committee has made a remarkable discovery. U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, the Wisconsin Democrat who has long been thought to be an outsider in the Senate Democr...
Mar 16, 2006 / John Nichols
California’s Cannibal Republicans California’s Cannibal Republicans
Want another way, other than Bush's rock-bottom poll numbers, to measure the depth of the Republican crisis? Take a look at what happened late Wednesday night out here in Californ...
Mar 16, 2006 / Adam Howard
The Bolton Archipelago The Bolton Archipelago
John Bolton's grandstanding vote today opposing the establishment of a UN Human Rights Council might please hard-core isolationists. But no one else.
Mar 16, 2006 / Feature / Ian Williams
Hatchet Man’s Heresy Hunt… Hatchet Man’s Heresy Hunt…
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Mar 15, 2006 / Michael Kazin, Daniel Lazare, Brian Morton, and Todd Gitlin