Who’s Paying for Rummy’s Final Show? Who’s Paying for Rummy’s Final Show?
I have a short, direct question. Don Rumsfeld's shameful tenure as Defense Secretary comes to an end a week from Monday. Meanwhile, he jaunts off on a "secret trip" to Baghdad th...
Dec 10, 2006 / The Nation
Dictator Slays Millions in Last-Minute Push to Be Time’s Man of the Year Dictator Slays Millions in Last-Minute Push to Be Time’s Man of the Year
Myanmar's brutal ruler Than Shwe is angling for the honor.
Dec 9, 2006 / The Nation
McCain’s Hatchet Man McCain’s Hatchet Man
During the 2000 Republican primary in South Carolina, GOP operatives spread the lie that Senator John McCain had fathered an illegitimate black child, when in fact his family had ...
Dec 8, 2006 / The Nation
Gates’s GOP Critics Gates’s GOP Critics
Yesterday the Senate confirmed Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense by a vote of 95 to 2. Who were the two dissenters? Barbara Boxer? Russ Feingold? John Kerry? Nope. Republicans...
Dec 7, 2006 / The Nation
A Safe Haven for Torturers A Safe Haven for Torturers
Yesterday's indictment of Roy Belfast, Jr. aka Charles "Chuckie" Taylor, the son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor, was understandably applauded by human rights groups. ...
Dec 7, 2006 / The Nation
Dems Bite Rubin’s Hand Dems Bite Rubin’s Hand
Robert Rubin, the reigning guru on economic policy for the Democraticparty, got a stiff surprise when he appeared today beforethe closed caucus meeting of House Democrats. A bunch...
Dec 6, 2006 / The Nation
A Very Bad Idea A Very Bad Idea
There are some sound ideas contained in the Iraq Study Group report that was finally released after weeks of leaks this morning. The confirmation that the circumstance in Iraq is ...
Dec 6, 2006 / The Nation
The People’s Iraq Study Group The People’s Iraq Study Group
As of this morning, new polling data about American public opinion on Iraq is on the table. The Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA), through its WorldPublicOpinion.or...
Dec 6, 2006 / The Nation
Unlocking the Vote: Activists and disenfranchised former felons restore voting rights in Rhode Island Unlocking the Vote: Activists and disenfranchised former felons restore voting rights in Rhode Island
Activists and disenfranchised former felons restore voting rights in Rhode Island.
Dec 5, 2006 / The Nation
Dartmouth Reviewed: Community protests anti-Native American imagery Dartmouth Reviewed: Community protests anti-Native American imagery
Community protests anti-Native American imagery.
Dec 5, 2006 / The Nation