Compromising on Torture–UPDATED Compromising on Torture–UPDATED
UPDATE: The Senate passed legislation a few hours ago that endorsed President George W. Bush's plan to prosecute and interrogate terrorism suspects. The 65-34 vote means the bill ...
Sep 28, 2006 / Peter Rothberg
Suppressing the Vote Suppressing the Vote
With Election Day around the corner, and concerns about another voting debacle of Florida 2000-proportions running high (especially given problems at primaries this year in Maryla...
Sep 28, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Foot-Long Hot Dog in Mouth Disease Foot-Long Hot Dog in Mouth Disease
Even by dysfunctional family reunion standards, last week's UN Summit was a blowout. There were the Presidents of Iran and the United States avoiding each other like estranged cou...
Sep 26, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
‘You Did Your Nice Little Conservative Hit Job On Me’ ‘You Did Your Nice Little Conservative Hit Job On Me’
Regular readers of this column will know that it maintains no great affection for former President Bill Clinton. A Democratic Leadership Council stalwart, Clinton got elected pres...
Sep 26, 2006 / John Nichols
The Devil and Mr. Bush The Devil and Mr. Bush
Love him, hate him, fear him, revere him, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is an elected world leader whose fiery criticisms of US foreign policy can't simply be ignored or ridic...
Sep 25, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
United Professionals, Unite! United Professionals, Unite!
In 2002, Barbara Ehrenreich and Thomas Geoghegan wrote in The Nation, "The underlying reason for organized labor's decline is that our labor laws do not let people join unions, fr...
Sep 21, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Compromising Justice Compromising Justice
President Bush and the three Republican Senators opposing his efforts to contravene the Geneva accords have reached an agreement on legislation to clarify which interrogation tech...
Sep 21, 2006 / Peter Rothberg
A New Star Shines From Massachusetts A New Star Shines From Massachusetts
Barack Obama, whose recent campaign-style swing through Iowa has renewed talk of the freshman senator from Illinois as a presidential prospect, is still the frontrunner in discuss...
Sep 20, 2006 / John Nichols
Lab Rat for Crony Capitalism Lab Rat for Crony Capitalism
In Sunday's Washington Post, excerpts from Rajiv Chandrasekaran's Imperial Life in the Emerald City reveal the fundamentally corrupt approach this administration took to Iraq Reco...
Sep 19, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Election Dysfunction Election Dysfunction
The Sunday Washington Post headline said it all. Echoing a theme that is finally being picked up by print and broadcast media that for too long has neglected the dramatic problems...
Sep 19, 2006 / John Nichols