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The Power of Nightmares The Power of Nightmares

Last week, the BBC re-broadcast a provocative documentary series which challenges the idea that Al Qaeda is the center of a uniquely powerful, unified and well-organized internati...

Jan 26, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Boxer Rebellion Spreads Boxer Rebellion Spreads

Give Barbara Boxer credit for sparking the most engaged debate that the Senate has yet seen over the Bush Administration lies that led the United States into the quagmire that is ...

Jan 26, 2005 / John Nichols

Knowing When to Quit Knowing When to Quit

As we remember Johnny Carson's many gifts, perhaps his greatest was his ability to know when it was time to voluntarily step out of the spotlight and never look back. A talent tha...

Jan 25, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

An Empty Exercise in Deceit An Empty Exercise in Deceit

President Bush has not lost his flair for irony. Just as the President hit the point in his second inaugural address where he declared to the dissidents of the world that "when y...

Jan 20, 2005 / John Nichols

Taking It to the States Taking It to the States

As Bush begins his second term today, progressives must fight hard in DC against the dismantling and rollback of the twentieth century's hard-earned rights and liberties. But wit...

Jan 20, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

An Un-American Inaugural An Un-American Inaugural

The First Lady has always merited her designation as "the brighter Bush." But, clearly, she needs to study up on American history. With concern mounting about the wisdom of the B...

Jan 19, 2005 / John Nichols

Crying Wolf Crying Wolf

Social Security is in danger. We must take preventive action: Baathist dead-enders have targeted the Social Security lockbox with Saddam's nonexistent weapons of mass destruction....

Jan 19, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Holding WMD Liars Accountable Holding WMD Liars Accountable

Now that the Bush administration has finally stopped wasting millions of tax dollars each month on the futile search for the weapons of mass destruction it promised would be found...

Jan 17, 2005 / John Nichols

Babushkas Versus Putin Babushkas Versus Putin

In February 1917, bread riots took place in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg), and spread quickly to working-class quarters where the violence increased. Women, many of them elderly,...

Jan 16, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

MLK’s moral values MLK’s moral values

The anniversary of the birth of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. falls just five days before the second inauguration of a president who has broken faith with most of the civil righ...

Jan 15, 2005 / John Nichols

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