Prime Time Bush Bull Prime Time Bush Bull
What will Bush really mean by sending "troops to the border" as anticipated in his Monday night speech on immigration. Probably a lot less than what it is implied as I explain he...
May 15, 2006 / The Nation
Had Enough? Had Enough?
Had Enough? It's a phrase Newt Gingrich adapted from an ad exec in 1946 and popularized. Now he's telling Democrats to use it against his own Party. For once, Democrats should he...
May 12, 2006 / The Nation
So You Want to Be a Rock & Roll Star? So You Want to Be a Rock & Roll Star?
Remember when your parents used to say, if you study hard you can grow up to be President? Remember when it was, well, the job to aspire to? But what with Bush at 29 percent appr...
May 12, 2006 / The Nation
Wolfowitz’s New Comb Wolfowitz’s New Comb
Almost a year has passed since Iraq War architect and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz became president of the World Bank -- and the reviews have been slow to come, largely...
May 11, 2006 / The Nation
Block that Cliche! Block that Cliche!
Most people agree that it's unattractive to try to stop a campusspeaker--however odious--who comes simply to present a point of view.But the choice of commencement speaker is a di...
May 11, 2006 / The Nation
A Corporate Horror Story A Corporate Horror Story
While everyone I know waits for Patrick Fitzgerald's next move--will he or won't he indict Karl Rove?-- I eagerly await the verdict in the Enron trial. Remember that giant corpo...
May 11, 2006 / The Nation
The Bada Bing Club The Bada Bing Club
In a must-read Chigago Tribune op-ed, GWU law professor Jonathan Turley makes the striking but often ignored point that the Bush Administration has a penchant for hiring those who...
May 11, 2006 / The Nation
Mary vs. Kerry Mary vs. Kerry
The election is history, but the war between a Cheney (Mary) and a Kerry (John) lives on. In her new memoir, Now It's My Turn, Cheney's lesbian daughter calls Kerry a "son of a b...
May 10, 2006 / The Nation
Byrd Is Soaring Byrd Is Soaring
U.S. Senator Robert Byrd, ardent critic of President Bush's decision to go to war with Iraq, outspoken opponent of the administration's domestic-spying program and chief Congressi...
May 10, 2006 / The Nation
Shying from Spying Shying from Spying
Democrats are out for the kill. Republicans are on the defensive. Right? Not exactly. When it comes to national security, many Democrats are still pulling their punches, even wit...
May 10, 2006 / The Nation