Torture is Unpatriotic Torture is Unpatriotic
This July 4th, a diverse coalition of groups including the Center for Constitutional Rights, Code Pink, The Culture Project, Not In Our Name, United For Peace and Justice, and WED...
Jul 3, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
Toward a More Perfect Union Toward a More Perfect Union
On this July 4th, when it comes to challenges facing America, the Bush Administration demonstrates that the conservative agenda is, to borrow a phrase, part of the problem, not th...
Jul 3, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
An Opening on the Supreme Court An Opening on the Supreme Court
This morning, President Bush said he will make a quick decision on a nominee to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and issued a thinly veiled warning to th...
Jul 1, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
Not Dominion, But Liberty Not Dominion, But Liberty
As the 229th anniversary of the founding of the American experiment approached, President Bush provided a painful reminder of how far the United States has drifted from the ideals...
Jul 1, 2005 / John Nichols
Court Fight: It’s More Than Left vs. Right Court Fight: It’s More Than Left vs. Right
"A nation's success or failure in achieving democracy is judged in part by how well it responds to those at the bottom and the margins of the social order.... The very problems th...
Jul 1, 2005 / John Nichols
Sweet Victory: People Over Profits in Brazil Sweet Victory: People Over Profits in Brazil
Each day, while pharmaceutical companies prosper, 8,500 people in the global South die of AIDS. Thanks to strict intellectual property laws that keep drug prices sky-high, only 7 ...
Jul 1, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Big Lie The Big Lie
"We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11th attacks." George W. Bush -- September 17, 2003 To the extend that George Bush had retained the sl...
Jun 29, 2005 / John Nichols
Rove on the Couch Rove on the Couch
As you all have heard, Karl Rove said liberals wanted to offer the terrorists therapy after 9/11. I know a lot of liberals. None of them were talking about counseling Osama bin La...
Jun 28, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Reinforcing the Wall Reinforcing the Wall
In his 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptist Association, then-President Thomas Jefferson made it clear that the intent of the founders was to maintain a "wall of separation between ...
Jun 28, 2005 / John Nichols
Preventing AIDS Preventing AIDS
Considered one of the world's most promising new HIV-prevention technologies by scientists and medical professionals, microbicides are a class of products currently under developm...
Jun 25, 2005 / Peter Rothberg