Bush on Cuba Bush on Cuba
President Bush's belligerent speech on Cuba signals that he intends to continue his Administration's delusional crusade for regime change--despite the self-inflicted wounds of the...
Oct 24, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
FCC Promotes Media Monopolies FCC Promotes Media Monopolies
As my friend and colleague John Nichols wrote last week, "Bush's chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has initiated a scheme to radically rewrite media ownership rule...
Oct 22, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Moyers/Scahill Expose Blackwater Moyers/Scahill Expose Blackwater
Tonight, October 19, at 9:00pm (EST) on PBS, Bill Moyers will interview Nation Institute Fellow Jeremy Scahill, author of the national bestseller Blackwater (Nation Books) on the ...
Oct 19, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
An Assault on Media Diversity and Democracy An Assault on Media Diversity and Democracy
President Bush is the lamest of lame-duck chief executives, with no moral authority, no legislative majority and no popular domestic or foreign-policy agendas. So what can he do w...
Oct 18, 2007 / John Nichols
Peace Action: In for the Long Haul Peace Action: In for the Long Haul
If you've been around a long time, as The Nation has (142 years of troublemaking and peacemaking), you know who your friends are. That's why, this week, we celebrate our longtime...
Oct 18, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
89 House Members Tell Bush: No More Money for Occupation 89 House Members Tell Bush: No More Money for Occupation
The occupation in Iraq will begin to end on the day that Democrats -- and responsible Republicans -- in Congress decide to stop meeting the demands of the Bush-Cheney administrati...
Oct 16, 2007 / John Nichols
Who Watches the CIA Watchers? Who Watches the CIA Watchers?
In the cloak and dagger, smoke and hall of mirrors that is the CIA, we have more evidence that it's dangerous to be a whistleblower, even if that happens to be your job. The CIA's...
Oct 16, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Getting Green in DC Getting Green in DC
I'm recently back from the Green Festival in Washington, DC. Billed as the largest sustainability event in the world, the GF is a two-day extravaganza that started in San Francisc...
Oct 15, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Ballotground in the Battlegrounds Ballotground in the Battlegrounds
For years, the rightwing has used divisive anti-gay, anti-immigrant, anti-fear-of-the-day ballot initiatives to boost voter turnout on Election Day and squeak out wins over Democr...
Oct 12, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Gore Wins the Norwegian Primary Gore Wins the Norwegian Primary
Having now won the Norwegian Primary, it is reasonable to ask why Al Gore would want to slog his way through the snows of New Hampshire. But the inconvenient truth is that never ...
Oct 12, 2007 / John Nichols