Democrats: 18 Year Olds Can Fight But Not Drink Democrats: 18 Year Olds Can Fight But Not Drink
One of the thornier issues in American politics is rarely, if ever, discussed at the level of presidential contention. In many states across the country -- including the "Live Fr...
Sep 27, 2007 / John Nichols
The Monks Rebel The Monks Rebel
Updated on September 27 The situation in Myanmar (formerly Burma) continues to worsen with reports of escalating efforts by the government to violently repress ongoing nonviolent...
Sep 26, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Battle in Aurora Battle in Aurora
Aurora, Illinois has become ground zero in the fight for women's access to reproductive health care. Last Thursday a federal judge denied Planned Parenthood's request for an inj...
Sep 25, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Bush, the Bomb and Iran Bush, the Bomb and Iran
To bomb or not to bomb Iran, that's the question the Bush Administration appears to be debating these days, once again revealing the extraordinary disconnect between the White Hou...
Sep 23, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Blackwater, Oil and the Colonial Enterprise Blackwater, Oil and the Colonial Enterprise
Blackwater USA's mercenary mission in Iraq is very much in the news this week, and rightly so. The private military contractor's war-for-profit program, which has been so brillian...
Sep 21, 2007 / John Nichols
Dan Rather Won’t Take any “Bullshine” Dan Rather Won’t Take any “Bullshine”
It was riveting television. There was former CBS news anchor Dan Rather, sitting across from CNN's Larry King, railing against the threat powerful media corporations pose to freed...
Sep 21, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Bush Loses It With MoveOn Bush Loses It With MoveOn
President Bush has made it clear that he does not read newspapers. And there is little reason to believe that the chief executive spends much time viewing serious news programs be...
Sep 20, 2007 / John Nichols
Combatants for Peace Combatants for Peace
This past January a ten year old Palestinian girl, Abir Aramin, was hit by a rubber bullet fired by Israeli Border Police as she was making her way home from school in East Jerusa...
Sep 20, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Don’t Like Noam Chomsky? Try Alan Greenspan Don’t Like Noam Chomsky? Try Alan Greenspan
Remember Michael Ignatieff's "Getting Iraq Wrong," the New York Times Sunday Magazine essay in which he explained that he supported the war in Iraq because he was a sensitive...
Sep 20, 2007 / Katha Pollitt
Habeas Corpus and a Senate Race in Maine Habeas Corpus and a Senate Race in Maine
The United States Senate celebrated this week's 220th anniversary of the Constitution by failing to endorse the restoration of the habeas corpus protections that legal scholar Alb...
Sep 20, 2007 / John Nichols