Fox News Goes Corporate Fox News Goes Corporate
It's official: Rupert Murdoch is launching a new business channel that will be "more business friendly" than its competitors, namely CNBC. As if CNBC (owned by General Electric) ...
Feb 11, 2007 / The Nation
Drew Gilpin Faust: Why We Love War Drew Gilpin Faust: Why We Love War
Drew Faust, the historian who has been named Harvard's first female president, has been praised for her "people skills," but she's also done brilliant intellectual work on a cruci...
Feb 10, 2007 / The Nation
Choice time: Unravel Al Qaeda or Fight Iran? Choice time: Unravel Al Qaeda or Fight Iran?
So just how firmly do the Bushists want to pursue the campaign to unravel Al-Qaeda? In today's WaPo, Dafna Linzer has a story, attributed largely to unnamed but concerned adminis...
Feb 10, 2007 / The Nation
Wall Street Whining Wall Street Whining
In response to the massive loss of unionzed, relatively well-paid manufacturing jobs in the US, the barons of Wall Street (Bob Rubin, et al) generally respond with thinly veiled c...
Feb 9, 2007 / The Nation
Ethnomusicologists Against Torture Ethnomusicologists Against Torture
Professional associations can be unaccountable, self-interested and reactionary. (It was the American Medical Association that almost single-handedly killed national health insura...
Feb 8, 2007 / The Nation
Not Your Father’s Antiwar Activist Not Your Father’s Antiwar Activist
Vote Vets, a coalition that includes 1,000 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans, produced some of the most gripping ads of the 2006 cycle, denouncing the war in Iraq and Republicans ...
Feb 8, 2007 / The Nation
The Secret Air War Over Iraq The Secret Air War Over Iraq
Just last week, in a typical air strike of the Iraq War, two missiles were fired at targets somewhere in the city of Ramadi, capital of al-Anbar province in the heartland of the S...
Feb 8, 2007 / The Nation
Mistrial Declared in Lt. Watada Court Martial Mistrial Declared in Lt. Watada Court Martial
U.S. Army First Lieutenant Ehren Watada finally had an opportunity to speak in his own defense Wednesday and in short order raised meaningful concerns about the prospect that he w...
Feb 7, 2007 / The Nation
Filibustering While Iraq Burns Filibustering While Iraq Burns
Ninety US soldiers have died since President Bush announced his plan to escalate the war in Iraq on January 10. There's been a lot of talk about how Congress can challenge Bush's...
Feb 7, 2007 / The Nation
Mike Gravel’s Campaign Mike Gravel’s Campaign
Last weekend, C-Span radio was broadcasting live the speeches of presidential candidates before the Democratic National Committee in Washington. I was listening in the car while r...
Feb 7, 2007 / The Nation