Shirley Chisholm’s Legacy Shirley Chisholm’s Legacy
Thirty-three years ago this month, a member of the U.S. House from Brooklyn challenged her party and her country to think more boldly than it ever had before about what the occupa...
Jan 4, 2005 / John Nichols
Ken Lay Would Love SS Privatization Ken Lay Would Love SS Privatization
A New Year's Day story in the Washington Post reported that President Bush's allies in corporate trade associations, the financial and securities industries and Fortune 500 compan...
Jan 3, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Bush Fails a Global Test Bush Fails a Global Test
George Bush ended 2004 on a sour note. But at least he maintained his record as the most disingenuous president since Richard Nixon. When other world leaders rushed to respond t...
Dec 30, 2004 / John Nichols
How to Help Tsunami Victims How to Help Tsunami Victims
The earthquake and tsunami that ravaged thousands of coastline villages from Thailand to Somalia this past weekend has prompted an urgent need for relief from the international co...
Dec 29, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
Martha Stewart’s Christmas Message Martha Stewart’s Christmas Message
Looking for some good news this holiday season? Check out Martha Stewart's Christmas 2004 message. The old Martha would have been instructing America's women how to wrap those pre...
Dec 27, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Rule One: Count Every Vote Rule One: Count Every Vote
Politics is a game played by rules. And the most important rule regarding close elections is that you don't win by being conciliatory during the recount process. Indeed, the only ...
Dec 27, 2004 / John Nichols
The Republican Dictionary: Part 3 The Republican Dictionary: Part 3
This past November, I wrote about the right's semantic trickery and proposed an idea for how we could debunk and decode the conservative's Orwellian Code of encrypted language: A...
Dec 21, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
What do the CIA, the Pentagon and the UN Have in Common? What do the CIA, the Pentagon and the UN Have in Common?
What do the CIA, the Pentagon and the UN have in common? They share a prescient view of the world's greatest dangers and their unheralded agreement on key issues facing the planet...
Dec 21, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Newfield’s Passionate Journalism Newfield’s Passionate Journalism
In RFK: A Memoir, the finest of the shelf full of books he produced during a career that was as prolific as it was meaningful, Jack Newfield succeeded in explaining the late Rober...
Dec 21, 2004 / John Nichols
All Hat, No Cattle All Hat, No Cattle
In a decision that was as unsurprising as it was shallow, Time magazine picked George W. Bush as its Person of the Year for the amazing feat of winning reelection as an incumbent ...
Dec 20, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel