No Taxes for War No Taxes for War
More and more Americans are fed up with watching their tax dollars support the greatest foreign policy disaster of our time. Over the past year, millions of US citizens have voted...
Dec 16, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
House Judiciary Trio Calls for Impeach Cheney Hearings House Judiciary Trio Calls for Impeach Cheney Hearings
Three senior members of the House Judiciary Committee have called for the immediate opening of impeachment hearings for Vice President Richard Cheney. Democrats Robert Wexler of ...
Dec 14, 2007 / John Nichols
Clinton, Obama, Drugs and the Politics of Cynicism Clinton, Obama, Drugs and the Politics of Cynicism
There are plenty of what might charitably be referred to as "unsavory" characters associated with the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, who tends to attract the seamy poli...
Dec 14, 2007 / John Nichols
Express Yourself Express Yourself
This January 22 will mark the 35th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision that legalized the right to abortion, Roe vs. Wade. Choice USA is trying to celebrate the occ...
Dec 13, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
On the Media On the Media
Michael Copps, a Commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), stops by The Nation offices every year to talk about what is happening to our media landscape. Invari...
Dec 12, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Will Pelosi Get Congress to Give Bush Another $70 Billion in Ira Will Pelosi Get Congress to Give Bush Another $70 Billion in Ira
Just days after it was revealed that she was briefed in 2002 on the use of waterboarding and other torture techniques by U.S. interrogators an raised no objections, House Speaker ...
Dec 11, 2007 / John Nichols
Pelosi and Torture Pelosi and Torture
That House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been a disappointing leader for House Democrats, few serious observers of the congressional condition will deny. But, now, she appears to be so...
Dec 10, 2007 / John Nichols
Help Keep Bookwoman Alive! Help Keep Bookwoman Alive!
Remember when feminist bookstores dotted the land? In l993 there were 124. A woman writer could give readings in women's bookstores from Los Angeles to Baltimore. But 1993 was th...
Dec 7, 2007 / Katha Pollitt
Robert Greenwald Wages War on Greed Robert Greenwald Wages War on Greed
Henry Kravis, founding partner in the private equity company KKR, made$450 million last year--that's $1.3 million per day, or $51,369 perhour. He did it largely by borrowing mone...
Dec 6, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Governor Romney, You’re No Jack Kennedy Governor Romney, You’re No Jack Kennedy
There was irony in the fact that George Herbert Walker Bush introduced former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney's much-anticipated speech on religion and politics. Almost four d...
Dec 6, 2007 / John Nichols