Hillary’s Chinatown Express Hillary’s Chinatown Express
The Los Angeles Times ran an eyebrow-raising story this morning about how Hillary Clinton is raising money from a highly unlikely source: New York's Chinatown. "Dishwashers, ...
Oct 19, 2007 / Ari Berman
“[Expletive] the Jews. They Didn’t Vote for Us Anyway” “[Expletive] the Jews. They Didn’t Vote for Us Anyway”
Has George Bush ever been to a bar mitzvah or eaten a blintz? Rudy Giuliani has -- dozens of times. The Bush family has been never been very popular with Jews, but Giuliani won a...
Oct 19, 2007 / Jon Wiener
Stop the FCC’s Gift to Big Media Conglomerates Stop the FCC’s Gift to Big Media Conglomerates
"This is a big deal because we have way too much concentration of media ownership in the United States," Senator Byron Dorgan (ND, Dem.) said at a hearing on Wednesday. &...
Oct 18, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Privatizing a Cut of the Public Sector Privatizing a Cut of the Public Sector
The privatization of the federal government during the Bush administration has snowballed to the point that the work of private contractors is evaluated by other private contracto...
Oct 17, 2007 / The Nation
An Epitaph for the Bush Era An Epitaph for the Bush Era
"I made my arguments and went down in flames. History will prove me right." Yes, that was George W. Bush. No, he wasn't talking about Iraq. The date was September 1993...
Oct 17, 2007 / TomDispatch
40 Years On, a New Call to Resist? 40 Years On, a New Call to Resist?
Forty years ago, a handful of smart Americans had an idea how to end a war. They published a call for moral, political and financial support for those refusing to serve. Initially ...
Oct 16, 2007 / Laura Flanders
Transportation Security Still Stuck In Mid-Flight Transportation Security Still Stuck In Mid-Flight
The Department of Homeland Security is moving at a glacial pace to safeguard trains, planes and automobiles from a terrorist attack and may not even have a coherent plan to work w...
Oct 16, 2007 / The Nation
Nobel Prize Winner “Abandons” Family Nobel Prize Winner “Abandons” Family
Why is it that when a man leaves his wife and she retains custody of the kids we say, simply, "he is divorced?" Yet when a woman, say Doris Lessing, leaves her husband a...
Oct 15, 2007 / Karen Houppert
Jews, Jesus, and Republicans: Playing Ann Coulter’s Game Jews, Jesus, and Republicans: Playing Ann Coulter’s Game
When Ann Coulter remarked on CNBC that Jews should become Christians, it wasn't "a faux pas," and she wasn't being "an idiot," as many commentators suggested. ...
Oct 15, 2007 / Jon Wiener
A Future Only a Pentagon Planner Could Possibly Love A Future Only a Pentagon Planner Could Possibly Love
How can we understand our world, if we have hardly a clue about the mini-worlds where planning for our future takes place? Just the other day, the Washington Post had one of the o...
Oct 13, 2007 / TomDispatch