The Notion

NIE on Iran Signals a Presidency in Decline NIE on Iran Signals a Presidency in Decline

Whatever else the release of the 16-agency National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on the Iranian bomb may be, it is certainly a reasonable measure of inside-the-Beltway Bush administ...

Dec 6, 2007 / TomDispatch

Arguing About Gitmo Arguing About Gitmo

Yesterday the Supreme Court heard arguments in what may be the most important constitutional case of the decade: whether the men detained at Guantanamo have a right to a fair trial...

Dec 6, 2007 / Jon Wiener

Unregulated, Uninspected Food For Thought Unregulated, Uninspected Food For Thought

After an audit released last week that amounted to a complete and utter indictment of the Food and Drug Administration, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt yesterday ...

Dec 5, 2007 / The Nation

Washington Post Attacks the Man who Got Iran Right Washington Post Attacks the Man who Got Iran Right

The Washington Post's Al Kamen has a snarky little item in today's paper about the International Atomic Energy Agency's Director General Mohamed ElBaradei. Kamen awards ElBaradei &...

Dec 5, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Mental Health and the Hillary Hostage Situation Mental Health and the Hillary Hostage Situation

I don't know anything more about Leeland Eisenberg--the 40-something year old man who held Hillary Clinton's campaign office in Rochester, New Hampshire, hostage for several hours ...

Dec 1, 2007 / Richard Kim

Exclusive: Washington Lobbying Secrets Sort of Exposed Exclusive: Washington Lobbying Secrets Sort of Exposed

Did you know that people increasingly use the Internet, even more so than radio? Or that e-mail is an effective communication tool but recipients don't like flooded in-boxes? Yes...

Nov 30, 2007 / The Nation

What to Make of the “Good News” from Iraq What to Make of the “Good News” from Iraq

Whoa, let's hold those surging horses in check a moment. Violence has lessened in Iraq. That seems to be a fact of the last two months -- and, for the Iraqis, a positive one, obv...

Nov 29, 2007 / TomDispatch

Reporting Beyond the Green Zone Reporting Beyond the Green Zone

Acts matter. Here's how Dahr Jamail, a young mountain guide and volunteer rescue ranger in Alaska (who did freelance writing in the "off-season") describes his rash deci...

Nov 27, 2007 / TomDispatch

A Profile of Immigration A Profile of Immigration

As the lead editorial in The Nation noted last week, the recent maelstrom surrounding Governor Eliot Spitzer's proposal to issue driver licenses to undocumented immigrants revealed...

Nov 26, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Australia Exits the Coalition of the Willing Australia Exits the Coalition of the Willing

President Bush recently traveled to Australia to thank conservative Prime Minister John Howard for making that country a member of the "coalition of the willing" U.S. all...

Nov 25, 2007 / John Nichols

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