Candidates Look for the Union Label Candidates Look for the Union Label
On Labor Day, the starting point for the mad rush to this winter's Democratic presidential caucuses and primaries, several of the Democratic contenders could point to support they...
Sep 1, 2003 / John Nichols
Bush’s Southern Problem Bush’s Southern Problem
"Any Democratic candidate will be destroyed in the South," gloated Chris Caldwell in a recent issue of the Weekly Standard. Caldwell should head to Greenville, South Carolina, on...
Aug 26, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Bush Endangers New Yorkers Bush Endangers New Yorkers
The Bush White House persistently manipulates scientific data to advance its ideology and the interests of its political supporters. That was the conclusion of a forty-page repor...
Aug 25, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sally Baron RIP Sally Baron RIP
The passionate desire for democratic regime change in 2004 extends even into the grave. Hardworking Sally Baron of Stoughton, Wisconsin--who raised six children and cared for her...
Aug 25, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Postwar? Or Guerrilla War? Postwar? Or Guerrilla War?
On August 18th, one day before the horrifying bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, President Bush revised his earlier characterization of the fighting in Iraq. ...
Aug 21, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
FCC is Feeling the Heat FCC is Feeling the Heat
Faced with a national outcry so intense that Congress is moving to reverse his attempt to eliminate controls on media consolidation and monopoly, Federal Communications Commission...
Aug 21, 2003 / John Nichols
Iraq: The Agony Continues Iraq: The Agony Continues
The United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Annan, said last night that the UN will continue its work in Iraq, despite Tuesday's devastating car-bomb attack on its headqua...
Aug 20, 2003 / Peter Rothberg
For Halliburton, Iraq Is a Cash Cow For Halliburton, Iraq Is a Cash Cow
War is a tragedy for some and a boon for others. As American soldiers continue to die in Iraq, and the length of the war and its costs escalate, Halliburton, the company headed b...
Aug 20, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
August Wakeup Calls August Wakeup Calls
How skewed are this Administration's priorities? Consider the insanity of throwing away billions of dollars on hightech military boondoggles like Star Wars that don't work. Or d...
Aug 19, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Bogus Blair, Bogus Bush Bogus Blair, Bogus Bush
The headline in Tuesday's editions of London's Guardian newspaper read: "No. 10 knew: Iraq no threat." The headline in London's Daily Mirror shouted: "NO THREAT -- Revealed: Emai...
Aug 19, 2003 / John Nichols