“Dignified Process”? “Dignified Process”?
The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of John Roberts to serve as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court began with an appropriate message from Wisconsin Senat...
Sep 12, 2005 / John Nichols
Contributing to Hurricane Katrina Relief Contributing to Hurricane Katrina Relief
Yesterday's New York Times's Sunday Styles section had a story about those of us called Katrina, and how we are handling the fact that we share a name with a Hurricane which has c...
Sep 12, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Hurricane Halliburton Hurricane Halliburton
Having finished the search for a luxury vacation home on the eastern shore of Maryland – which preoccupied him during the critical initial days of what is being called the worst...
Sep 11, 2005 / John Nichols
Repairing the Breach Repairing the Breach
It's Time for a New "New Deal" New Orleans is destroyed, the Gulf Coast'sinfrastructure is in tatters and tens of thousands ofcitizens are without jobs as gas prices nationwideri...
Sep 8, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Have You No Shame? Have You No Shame?
As Republicans desperately cry out of one corner of their mouths to stop the blame game, they have been blaming everyone but themselves since this catastrophe. Let's look at their...
Sep 7, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Barbara Bush: It’s Good Enough for the Poor Barbara Bush: It’s Good Enough for the Poor
Finally, we have discovered the roots of George W. Bush's "compassionate conservatism." On the heels of the president's "What, me worry?" response to the death, destruction and d...
Sep 6, 2005 / John Nichols
The Poverty of Our Nation…and the Poverty of Our Politics The Poverty of Our Nation…and the Poverty of Our Politics
Mark Naison on Race, Class and the Disaster As Joan Walsh wrote in Salon last week, "The horror in New Orleans exposed the nation's dirty secrets of race and poverty." But as...
Sep 5, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
‘Indifference Is a Weapon of Mass Destruction’ ‘Indifference Is a Weapon of Mass Destruction’
On Friday, during a special session to provide relief money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, Representative Dennis Kucinich delivered a powerful indictment of the Administ...
Sep 4, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Denny Hastert’s Dark Calculus Denny Hastert’s Dark Calculus
In 1975, when New York City teetered on the brink of financial default, the refusal of then-President Gerald Ford to back an aid package inspired the famous New York Daily News he...
Sep 3, 2005 / John Nichols
The Victims of Hurricane Katrina The Victims of Hurricane Katrina
Numerous Nation readers have written us asking for suggestions on where they can send funds to help those devastated by Hurricane Katrina. For straight donations, the American Red...
Sep 2, 2005 / Peter Rothberg