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Don’t Believe the Hype Don’t Believe the Hype

In February 2005, a GOP Policy Committee report asserted that "voter fraud continues to plague our nation's federal elections, diluting and canceling out the lawful votes of the v...

Mar 6, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Pressing for Peace Pressing for Peace

The National Call-In for Peace is an effort by a coalition of peace and veterans groups to coordinate a unified phone campaign to urge Congress to reject the Bush supplemental app...

Mar 6, 2007 / Peter Rothberg

The Next Mission: Removing a Tyrant The Next Mission: Removing a Tyrant

RUTLAND, Vt. -- Over the weekend, I traveled Vermont with three of the most remarkable defenders of democracy I have met in a long time: former Army Sgt. Drew Cameron, former Mari...

Mar 6, 2007 / John Nichols

Cluster Bombs and New Nukes Cluster Bombs and New Nukes

Good news from Belgium. After forty-six nations--including Britain, Canada, and Germany--met in Oslo in February and agreed to work towards a global ban on cluster bombs over the ...

Mar 5, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Fighting for the Right to Organize Fighting for the Right to Organize

Working people scored at least a temporary victory Thursday when the House voted for legislation that would make it easier for workers to form unions. (Thanks to all Nation reader...

Mar 2, 2007 / Peter Rothberg

Vermont Puts Impeachment on the Table Vermont Puts Impeachment on the Table

NEWFANE, Vermont -- Cindy Sheehan and I are traveling Vermont this weekend, stopping in close to a dozen towns from Burlington to Brattleboro, to talk about why we think the presi...

Mar 2, 2007 / John Nichols

Arthur Schlesinger Vs. The Imperial President Arthur Schlesinger Vs. The Imperial President

"The good historian does not stop with the history. As the situation requires and compels, he goes on to making it."-- John Kenneth Galbraith on the legacy of Arthur Schlesinger J...

Mar 1, 2007 / John Nichols

Legislation Watch Legislation Watch

In 2001, Representative Dennis Kucinich introduced legislation to create a Department of Peace and Nonviolence to "not only make nonviolence an organizing principle in our society...

Mar 1, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

The Right to Organize The Right to Organize

Last week, the House of Representatives Education and Labor Committee voted yes on the Employee Free Choice Act. This was a huge step forward in the fight to restore the ability o...

Feb 28, 2007 / Peter Rothberg

News Not Fit to Print? News Not Fit to Print?

Last weekend, I wrote here about the history of US government attempts to suppress information. My case study was the Kennedy Administration's successful effort to delay publicati...

Feb 28, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

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