Stonewalling Time Stonewalling Time
Have you heard about the Restore Freedom of Information Act? Support it--If you care about our democracy. Since October 2001, when Attorney General John Ashcroft reversed longs...
Jul 12, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Checks and Balances Anyone? Checks and Balances Anyone?
When it was proposed during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that the sole power "to make war" be vested in the Congress, the measure carried overwhelmingly. Only one delegat...
Jul 10, 2003 / John Nichols
Bottom of the Ninth on Capitol Hill Bottom of the Ninth on Capitol Hill
The American people have already changed the character of the debate over media consolidation and monopoly. Now, they may well be on the verge of winning a historically unpreceden...
Jul 8, 2003 / John Nichols
The Terminator President The Terminator President
What's it come to when Arnold Schwarzenegger plays the role of commander-in-chief and the US President acts like the Terminator? On his fourth of July USO tour of Baghdad, Schwar...
Jul 7, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Social Unionism–Salvadoran Style Social Unionism–Salvadoran Style
For the first time in Salvadoran history, a new union is bringing together workers from the country's phone companies, Internet sector, radio and TV stations, and newspapers and ...
Jul 7, 2003 / Peter Rothberg
Dean, Kucinich, Kerry Top MoveOn Vote Dean, Kucinich, Kerry Top MoveOn Vote
Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean's scored another publicity coup this week, finishing a solid first in the MoveOn.org PAC online primary that became a high-stakes test of the a...
Jun 27, 2003 / John Nichols
Judge Resigns Over Congressional Meddling Judge Resigns Over Congressional Meddling
The announcement this week by U.S. District Judge John S. Martin of the Southern District of New York that he would leave the bench because he was fed up with Congressional meddli...
Jun 25, 2003 / John Nichols
America: Global Leader or Global Cop? America: Global Leader or Global Cop?
Earlier this month, The Nation and The Economist held a debate in New York City. Billed as "America's Role in the World: Protector or Predator," it was a wide-ranging discussion ...
Jun 25, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Double-Standards for Dissidents Double-Standards for Dissidents
President Bush's support for Iranian student protesters reminds me of something a Russian friend said to me many years ago, during the Soviet era: "You Americans are an odd peopl...
Jun 23, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Newt’s Smashmouth Foreign Policy Newt’s Smashmouth Foreign Policy
Deploying his smashmouth style of personal diplomacy, Newt Gingrich is again assailing the State Department as a "broken institution," for its failures in implementing President ...
Jun 20, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel