A Healthy Debate? A Healthy Debate?
Dear Ari, I was provoked enough by the title of your last post and your recent critiques of the Democrats to read onward, expecting some jabs at the hopelessly hobbled party that...
Jun 23, 2006 / The Nation
Enough About Division Enough About Division
As an author of numerous articles about Democratic division on Iraq, I have a confession to make. My ears and eyes can only take so much. Over and over for the past two weeks, a...
Jun 22, 2006 / The Nation
Wal-Mart Helps Defeat Minimum Wage Wal-Mart Helps Defeat Minimum Wage
The great American tragicomedy that is Wal-Mart continues. Last fall, a diverse crew of suckers, ranging from the far-right editorialists at the Wall Street Journal editorial page...
Jun 22, 2006 / The Nation
Shafting the Working Poor Shafting the Working Poor
The GOP just shafted the working people of America. By rejecting an attempt to raise the minimum wage, the Republican-controlled Senate showed that it is far more interested in l...
Jun 21, 2006 / The Nation
Prisoners of Uncertainty Prisoners of Uncertainty
The debate over the war in Iraq has from day one been marked by the disingenuousness of GOP talking points. Al Qaeda is controlling the insurgency. We're fighting them over the...
Jun 21, 2006 / The Nation
Not Exactly Supporting the Troops Not Exactly Supporting the Troops
Here's an interesting political position: Keep U.S. troops in Iraq and signal to the Iraqi government that its O.K. to pardon insurgents who kill Americans. Even in the frequentl...
Jun 21, 2006 / The Nation
What’s the Matter With Ohio? What’s the Matter With Ohio?
Well, for starters, there’s that stolen election people are finally talking about. But now the far right is attempting an additional travesty on the good people of Ohio. A bi…
Jun 20, 2006 / The Nation
Walk the Walk Walk the Walk
I was on a panel this morning about the 2006 elections with twoconsultants--Republican Ed Rollins and Democrat Doug Schoen--andTime magazine columnist Joe Klein. The conversation...
Jun 20, 2006 / The Nation
Oversight? No Thanks Oversight? No Thanks
After all the reports of corporate crimes and contract abuses in Iraq and Afghanistan -- including the recent revelation by Halliburton Watch that Halliburton and its KBR subsidia...
Jun 20, 2006 / The Nation
A Crucial Vote A Crucial Vote
When John Kerry, Barbara Boxer and Russ Feingold offer an amendment to the defense spending bill Wednesday calling on US troops to leave Iraq by July 1, 2007, only a handful of Se...
Jun 20, 2006 / The Nation