The LA Times’s “Alamo” The LA Times’s “Alamo”
At a time when the shift toward the Internet and the corporate quest for increased profit are threatening the future of journalism, it's inspiring to see the editor of a major dai...
Sep 20, 2006 / The Nation
GOP Leader Threatens Lobbyists GOP Leader Threatens Lobbyists
The Republican Party's "K Street Project," intended to make lobbyists pledge their allegiance to the GOP, has supposedly been shut down in the wake of the Abramoff scandal. But in...
Sep 19, 2006 / The Nation
Time to Move Beyond Bush-Hating Time to Move Beyond Bush-Hating
You know the peace movement is in trouble when Andrew Rosenthal -- who edited WMD-fantasist Judy Miller at the New York Times -- bemoans its invisibility, as he did in an editoria...
Sep 19, 2006 / The Nation
The War on Torture The War on Torture
In Connecticut today, a statewide interfaith network of religious leaders--Reclaiming the Prophetic Voice-- working with with the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, is ...
Sep 19, 2006 / The Nation
Clooney Cares Clooney Cares
Academy Award winning actor and director George Clooney does not have a new film to promote. He does not want to call attention to a high-profile romance he's involved in. He simp...
Sep 19, 2006 / The Nation
Deja Vu on Iran Deja Vu on Iran
Is the Bush Administration mistaking Iran for pre-war Iraq? Recent events certainly sound eerily familiar. Intelligence experts and counter-terrorism officials say hawkish Repub...
Sep 19, 2006 / The Nation
Rendition Rendered Rendition Rendered
For some time now we've known about the Bush administration's outsourcing of torture to foreign dictatorships. But for the first time we can see the whole process vividly detailed...
Sep 19, 2006 / The Nation
Iraq for Sale Iraq for Sale
The Bush Administration appointed political cronies to run Iraq and gave lucrative no-bid contracts to the former employer of our Vice President. No wonder the occupation is turn...
Sep 18, 2006 / The Nation
Full Disclosure Full Disclosure
Question: What activity burns through money "like jet fuel," involvesthree armored cars, forty-five full-time, Kalashnikov-toting securityguards, and two blast-wall-enclosed house...
Sep 18, 2006 / The Nation
New Bill Would Defend Marriage From Sharks New Bill Would Defend Marriage From Sharks
Some Democrats who say they support sharks' rights have been careful not to oppose the bill outright.
Sep 18, 2006 / The Nation