Modest Appointments Modest Appointments
Bush has appointed Torture Guy to run the American "Justice" Department, his "work wife" to serve as America's top diplomat, and a partisan hatchet man, Porter Goss, to subject th...
Nov 22, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Teaching Torture–UPDATED Teaching Torture–UPDATED
See below for an update More than 10,000 activists from across the US--including actors Martin Sheen and Susan Sarandon and musicians Amy Ray and Utah Phillips--will gather at t...
Nov 19, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
Dean Tells It Like It Is Dean Tells It Like It Is
If you want some straight talk in these days of the Democratic Leadership Council's calls to retreat to a monastery or move to the center, check out Howard Dean's feisty comments ...
Nov 17, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Politician, Not a Diplomat A Politician, Not a Diplomat
Two weeks before the 2004 presidential election, the Bush administration's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, made a solemn pronouncement about her desire to remain outs...
Nov 17, 2004 / John Nichols
Creeping Creationism Creeping Creationism
Some days it feels like 1925--when William Jennings Bryan defended the merits of creationism in the Scopes Monkey trial--all over again. I've written before about how the Right w...
Nov 16, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Defining Failure Down Defining Failure Down
Last July, the Washington Post devoted much of its front-page to a well-reported story indicting National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice for her role in misleading Congress and...
Nov 16, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Frist’s Fury Over Filibusters Frist’s Fury Over Filibusters
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, the health insurance industry heir who went into politics for the purpose of protecting his family's financial interests against even the most t...
Nov 15, 2004 / John Nichols
Small But Sweet Victories: Part 2 Small But Sweet Victories: Part 2
Earlier this week, I wrote about some small but sweet election victories which progressives should be celebrating. I ended by asking readers to send me victories they believed we...
Nov 12, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Thomas Jefferson on George Bush Thomas Jefferson on George Bush
"A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true princ...
Nov 10, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
Danger for Dems: A Moral Misstep Danger for Dems: A Moral Misstep
Democrats who place too much credence in those exit polls that suggest that American politics is being reshaped by voters who are charged up about "Moral Values"--as defined by so...
Nov 9, 2004 / John Nichols