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Elementary, Pat, Elementary Elementary, Pat, Elementary

The other night, Pat Buchanan said on Scarborough Country's segment about "The Politics of Impeachment" that my views on the subject are irrelevant. I suggest Pat check out a li...

Feb 10, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Jose Bove’s Not Welcome in Bush’s USA Jose Bove’s Not Welcome in Bush’s USA

Few figures have contributed more to the debate about corporate globalization than Jose Bove, the French farmer whose dismantling of a McDonald's restaurant that was under constru...

Feb 9, 2006 / John Nichols

A Healthy Dose of Reality for Mr. Bush A Healthy Dose of Reality for Mr. Bush

Just as they did following the memorial service for Senator Paul Wellstone in 2002, Republican operatives and their acolytes in the media are now claiming that there was something...

Feb 8, 2006 / John Nichols

A Real King, and a Pretend One A Real King, and a Pretend One

Ten thousand people mourned Corretta Scott King at her funeral yesterday. President Bush was also in attendance. The stark contrast between the life of Mrs. King, and the Man Who ...

Feb 8, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Bush and Blair’s Secret Pact Bush and Blair’s Secret Pact

A new memo leaked to the British media last week asserts that George Bush and Tony Blair agreed in January 2003 to go to war in Iraq--not March 2003, as they insist. It also sugge...

Feb 7, 2006 / Peter Rothberg

Lieberman’s Lapdog Act Not Playing Well Lieberman’s Lapdog Act Not Playing Well

It is no secret that Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman is President Bush's favorite Democrat. With his see-no-evil, hear-no-evil, admit-no-evil defense of the administration's ...

Feb 7, 2006 / John Nichols

“Stuff Happens” Rumsfeld Comes to NY “Stuff Happens” Rumsfeld Comes to NY

On February 17th, Secretary of Defense Donald "Stuff Happens" Rumsfeld will visit the Council on Foreign Relations, the citadel of America's foreign-policy establishment. The topi...

Feb 6, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Sweet Victory: Washington State Says No To Discrimination Sweet Victory: Washington State Says No To Discrimination

Co-written by Sam Graham-Felsen. Cal Anderson, Washington's first openly gay state congressman, spent each of his eight years in the legislature fighting for a gay rights bill wh...

Feb 4, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Stop the Gag on Global Warming–UPDATED Stop the Gag on Global Warming–UPDATED

Nation readers don't need me to tell them how frantically the Bush Administration tries to avoid both transparency and accountability. On issue after issue, the Bushies have worke...

Feb 3, 2006 / Peter Rothberg

A Boehner in the Henhouse A Boehner in the Henhouse

Newly-selected House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, is getting some remarkably good press, considering his remarkably sordid political pedigree. ABC News referred to the g...

Feb 3, 2006 / John Nichols

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