Iraq’s Lost Election Iraq’s Lost Election
In the run-up to the January 30 election in Iraq, the prospects for a fair and credible outcome have steadily diminished.
Jan 20, 2005 / The Editors
Letter Letter
NORTHERN EXPOSURE Toronto
Jan 20, 2005 / Scott Sherman, Patricia J. Williams, Our Readers, and Miles Schuman
An Empty Exercise in Deceit An Empty Exercise in Deceit
President Bush has not lost his flair for irony. Just as the President hit the point in his second inaugural address where he declared to the dissidents of the world that "when y...
Jan 20, 2005 / John Nichols
Taking It to the States Taking It to the States
As Bush begins his second term today, progressives must fight hard in DC against the dismantling and rollback of the twentieth century's hard-earned rights and liberties. But wit...
Jan 20, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Inaugural on $250,000 a Day The Inaugural on $250,000 a Day
How the upper one-one-hundredth of 1 percent does politics.
Jan 19, 2005 / Micah L. Sifry
An Un-American Inaugural An Un-American Inaugural
The First Lady has always merited her designation as "the brighter Bush." But, clearly, she needs to study up on American history. With concern mounting about the wisdom of the B...
Jan 19, 2005 / John Nichols
Crying Wolf Crying Wolf
Social Security is in danger. We must take preventive action: Baathist dead-enders have targeted the Social Security lockbox with Saddam's nonexistent weapons of mass destruction....
Jan 19, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Pomp and Improper Circumstance Pomp and Improper Circumstance
Some might say it's tacky to rain on the President's parade, but two crucial news stories compel it.
Jan 18, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer
Holding WMD Liars Accountable Holding WMD Liars Accountable
Now that the Bush administration has finally stopped wasting millions of tax dollars each month on the futile search for the weapons of mass destruction it promised would be found...
Jan 17, 2005 / John Nichols
Babushkas Versus Putin Babushkas Versus Putin
In February 1917, bread riots took place in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg), and spread quickly to working-class quarters where the violence increased. Women, many of them elderly,...
Jan 16, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel