Reconstruction Watch Part 6 Reconstruction Watch Part 6
A non-profit company in El Paso -- The National Center for Employment of the Disabled (NCED) -- was raided last week by 70 federal agents investigating whether it violated the ter...
May 14, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
White House, NSA Block Investigation of Spying White House, NSA Block Investigation of Spying
With news reports exposing the National Security Agency's previously secret spying on the phone conversations of tens of millions of Americans, what is the status of the U.S. Depa...
May 11, 2006 / John Nichols
Will Civilians Control the Military? Will Civilians Control the Military?
President Bush's nomination of Air Force General Michael V. Hayden to direct the Central Intelligence Agency has opened a debate over whether the most fundamental principles of th...
May 9, 2006 / John Nichols
Defending the Constitution Defending the Constitution
Earlier this week I wrote about the constitutional crisis we currently face as a result of George Bush's abuse, overreach and lawlessness. (A recent article in the Boston Globe d...
May 9, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Fighting Back in South Dakota Fighting Back in South Dakota
Early last month, I highlighted an appeal to support progressive South Dakota State Senate candidate Charon Asetoyer. The Executive Director of the Native Women's Health Educatio...
May 9, 2006 / Peter Rothberg
Sex, Limos and Government Contracts Sex, Limos and Government Contracts
"The Culture of Corruption" is a clever alliteration, a catchy political phrase, but without a vivid image to bring it to life, it amounts to a series of statistics: the increase ...
May 8, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sweet Victory: States Make DREAM a Reality Sweet Victory: States Make DREAM a Reality
Co-written by Sam Graham-Felsen. Last week, hundreds of thousands of high school students across the country made the choice that will help shape their futures for years to come-...
May 7, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Rumsfeld Uses Colin Powell as a Human Shield Rumsfeld Uses Colin Powell as a Human Shield
Challenged by veteran CIA analyst Ray McGovern to explain why he had claimed to "know" before the invasion of Iraq that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction when t...
May 5, 2006 / John Nichols
If You Live in a Glass House… If You Live in a Glass House…
Just eight weeks ago I was in Moscow at a conference called, "From Fulton to Malta: How the Cold War Began and Ended." What a difference two months make. In DC and Moscow, it's ...
May 5, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Mission (Really) Not Accomplished Mission (Really) Not Accomplished
President Bush and his acolytes continually suggest that the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq are "success stories" that just have not receiving proper attention from the U.S. ...
May 4, 2006 / John Nichols