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101 People Who Are Really Screwing America 101 People Who Are Really Screwing America

For everyone who has been waiting for the response to Bernard Goldberg's awful 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America, Nationbooks has the answer--101 People Who Are Really Screwi...

Jul 26, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Bill Moyers for President? Absolutely! Bill Moyers for President? Absolutely!

Molly Ivins is trying to get Democrats excited about the prospect of running Bill Moyers for president. "Dear desperate Democrats," the nation's most widely-read liberal newspape...

Jul 25, 2006 / John Nichols

The Madness of King George The Madness of King George

Today, a bipartisan American Bar Association task force released its report challenging George Bush's flagrant misuse of signing statements to circumvent the constitutional separa...

Jul 25, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

How to Help in Lebanon How to Help in Lebanon

Researchers for Human Rights Watch, the New York-based non-governmental organization, say they have compiled details on the deaths of more than a quarter of the roughly 400 Leban...

Jul 24, 2006 / Peter Rothberg

A New Openness A New Openness

"It has to be said: there has been nothing in our time like the Bush Administration's obsession with secrecy….It's an old story: the greater the secrecy, the deeper the corrupti...

Jul 24, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Condoleezza “False Promise” Rice Condoleezza “False Promise” Rice

As Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice goes through the charade of meeting with international leaders to discuss the crisis in the Middle East – while showing her true sentiment...

Jul 22, 2006 / John Nichols

Neonuts Neonuts

For them, Afghanistan and Iraq will not suffice. They want to take out Syria and Iran, and speed full steam ahead towards World Wars III and IV. The Weekly Standard asks simply,...

Jul 20, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Lebanon In Crisis; Bush, Most Democrats In Denial Lebanon In Crisis; Bush, Most Democrats In Denial

A little more than a week of Israeli bombing and American neglect has created a humanitarian crisis in Lebanon. In a country that just months ago was being written up in travel ma...

Jul 20, 2006 / John Nichols

Brothers in Arms Brothers in Arms

There's been much chatter about President Bush's earthy open-mic discussion of the Middle East crises with Tony Blair. But it was the joint news conference at the G8 summit betwee...

Jul 19, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Republicans Reject Ralph Reed’s Hypocrisy Republicans Reject Ralph Reed’s Hypocrisy

For those who still claim that the Jack Abramoff scandal will not "play" politically, the Republican voters of Georgia beg to differ. Christian right leader Ralph Reed's plan to ...

Jul 19, 2006 / John Nichols

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