The Real Moral Fight The Real Moral Fight
On January 20, hundreds of Republicans will descend on Washington, DC, wearing furs, boots and Stetsons, and partying like the Hollywood stars (they love to loathe) at festivitie...
Jan 12, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Is Al Qaeda Just a Bush Boogeyman? Is Al Qaeda Just a Bush Boogeyman?
A BBC film challenges many articles of faith in the so-called war on terror.
Jan 11, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer
Privatizing the Public Good Privatizing the Public Good
Honest economists will tell you that the financial solvency of Social Security can be guaranteed well into the next century. So why does the President insist on adding private re...
Jan 11, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
An Election Reform Movement An Election Reform Movement
David Cobb, the Green Party presidential candidate who has devoted the past two months to the arduous task of pressing for a full review of the mess that Ohio officials made of th...
Jan 10, 2005 / John Nichols
Armstrong Williams: I Am Not Alone Armstrong Williams: I Am Not Alone
It was a rare moment of talk-show unanimity. On the set of the Fox News Washington bureau, host Tony Snow, fellow guest Linda Chavez (a conservative pundit)...
Jan 10, 2005 / David Corn
Rev. Dyson’s Organizing Wisdom Rev. Dyson’s Organizing Wisdom
Reverend David Dyson has been doing God's work for decades. Pastor of the landmark Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, Dyson worked with Cesar Chavez an...
Jan 7, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Keep Objecting Keep Objecting
The decision of US Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-California, to sign on to the objection raised Thursday by US Rep. John Conyers Jr. and other House Democrats to the counting of Ohio's el...
Jan 6, 2005 / John Nichols
Before Night Falls Before Night Falls
The Chilean coup of 1973 was carried out with a Lone Ranger comic book, a bicycle and several cans of condensed milk.
Jan 6, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Infinite Jest Infinite Jest
This past March, on the closing day of an international literary conference held in Krakow, Poland, an elderly woman stood up before hundreds of scholars and admirers gathered to...
Jan 6, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Paloff
And Justice for All And Justice for All
Affirmative action, in theory, is a matter of distributive justice, which is why liberals and progressives tend to look benevolently on it while conservatives and libertarians co...
Jan 6, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Michael Bérubé