“The Fat Lady Has Not Sung Yet” “The Fat Lady Has Not Sung Yet”
The people of the nation's capital – all 600,000 of them – came closer than ever before to long sought after voting representation in Congress yesterday. But in the end, bipa...
Sep 19, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Scholarships Happen Scholarships Happen
He's back. Having apparently spent sufficient time with his family since being sacked, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is battling to rebuild his disgraced image. In ...
Sep 19, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Skepticism Required in Review of AG Choice Skepticism Required in Review of AG Choice
President Bush's nominee to succeed the most lamentable Attorney General of the United States since Warren Harding's scandal-plagued accomplice, Harry M. Daugherty, is undoubtedly...
Sep 18, 2007 / John Nichols
A Pro-Democracy Movement A Pro-Democracy Movement
With the nation's first billion dollar presidential campaign, pay-to-play scandals occurring at breakneck speed (think Jack Abramoff and Norman Hsu), results in elections that are...
Sep 17, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Constitution to “Chain the Dogs of War” A Constitution to “Chain the Dogs of War”
Two-hundred and twenty years ago this week, the patriots who had stuck through the long process of drafting a Constitution for the new United States finally approved the document....
Sep 16, 2007 / John Nichols
The Ambitious Delusions of George Bush and David Petraeus The Ambitious Delusions of George Bush and David Petraeus
We now learn that General David Petraeus fancies himself a Dwight Eisenhower for the 21st century. According to a report in London's Independent newspaper by the reliable Middle ...
Sep 14, 2007 / John Nichols
Soldiers Who Challenged War Spin Die in Iraq Soldiers Who Challenged War Spin Die in Iraq
Less than a month ago, on August 19, 2007, The New York Times published a letter from seven U.S. soldiers who wrote the newspaper as they were finishing a 15-month deployment in I...
Sep 13, 2007 / John Nichols
The Sherrod Brown Pledge The Sherrod Brown Pledge
With nine million children uninsured in the US, and George Bush preparing to veto a bipartisan effort to cover four to five million of them, it's clear how far we are from a unive...
Sep 12, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Small Town Injustice in Jena Small Town Injustice in Jena
For an update on the Jena 6 case read my colleague Mark Sorkin's new exclusive online report. I've been meaning to write about the Jena 6 since I first heard the shocking detail...
Sep 11, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Honoring 9-11 By Objecting To Its Exploitation Honoring 9-11 By Objecting To Its Exploitation
The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly Monday for a resolution recalling the 9-11 tragedy, which occurred six years ago today. The resolution was far more respons...
Sep 11, 2007 / John Nichols