Sweet Victory: Huge Win for Wal-Mart Workers Sweet Victory: Huge Win for Wal-Mart Workers
Try as it might, no amount of spin from Wal-Mart's multimillion-dollar war room in Bentonville, Arkansas can undo the latest bit of bad news for the world's largest corporation. ...
Jan 6, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Samuel Alito v. James Madison Samuel Alito v. James Madison
No member of the Senate who takes seriously the oath they have sworn to defend the Constitution will vote to confirm judicial activist Samuel Alito's nomination to serve on the U....
Jan 6, 2006 / John Nichols
‘Out of Iraq’ ‘Out of Iraq’
Attacks by suicide bombers killed as many as 130 people in Iraq yesterday, rekindling fears of a return to mass sectarian killings after a relative lull. At the same general time ...
Jan 6, 2006 / Peter Rothberg
Abramoff , The GOP Corruption Machine & What Dems Need to Do Abramoff , The GOP Corruption Machine & What Dems Need to Do
It didn't take Republican super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff's guilty plea to three felony counts of conspiracy, mail fraud and tax evasion to understand that the scale of corruption in...
Jan 4, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Jack Abramoff and the Politics of 2006 Jack Abramoff and the Politics of 2006
By any serious definition of the word, Republican super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff is a rat. His decision to enter guilty pleas Tuesday to three felony counts of defrauding his own cl...
Jan 3, 2006 / John Nichols
Look to The Onion for Accurate War Coverage Look to The Onion for Accurate War Coverage
Sometimes, only The Onion gets it right. The satirical weekly, which does for print journalism what Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" does for cable news, finished off 2005 with ...
Jan 2, 2006 / John Nichols
A Year of Sweet Victories A Year of Sweet Victories
In the dark days after the election of 2004, the mainstream media was touting the making of a permanent rightward shift, and the progressive community was deeply deflated. It was...
Dec 30, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Most Valuable Progressives of 2005 The Most Valuable Progressives of 2005
It is hard to complain about a year that began with George Bush bragging about spending the "political capital" he felt he had earned with his dubious reelection and ended with th...
Dec 28, 2005 / John Nichols
The I-Word is Gaining Ground–UPDATED The I-Word is Gaining Ground–UPDATED
In 1998, House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, currently under indictment on corruption charges, proclaimed: "This nation sits at a crossroads. One direction points to the higher road of...
Dec 27, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Short Peace In A Terrible War Short Peace In A Terrible War
Alfred Anderson died last month at the very ripe old age of 109. But it was not the Scotsman's many years that made him remarkable at the end of his long life. It was that, to hi...
Dec 24, 2005 / John Nichols