The Notion

DC Sex Scandal: Couldn’t Happen to Nicer Bunch of Guys DC Sex Scandal: Couldn’t Happen to Nicer Bunch of Guys

I'm amused that none of my Notion colleagues have commented on the Washington, D.C. sex scandal. Time to break this high-minded code of delicacy. Alleged madam Deborah Jane Palfrey...

May 2, 2007 / Liza Featherstone

Thompson the Lobbyist Thompson the Lobbyist

David Sirota has a good post up about how the media is overlooking Fred Thompson's lucrative stint as a lobbyist. In a profile of the possible presidential candidate yesterday, the...

May 2, 2007 / Ari Berman

Murdoch to Buy Wall Street Journal? Murdoch to Buy Wall Street Journal?

Not content with its conservative media empire, Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp is making an ambitious bid to buy the Dow Jones Company and its prized product, the Wall Street Journal. N...

May 1, 2007 / Ari Berman

Mission Unaccomplished Mission Unaccomplished

It had taken much thought and planning that wartime May Day four years ago when George W. Bush co-piloted an S-3B Viking sub reconnaissance Naval jet onto the deck of the USS Abrah...

May 1, 2007 / TomDispatch

Human Rights at Wal-Mart Human Rights at Wal-Mart

How appropriate, this May Day, that Human Rights Watch has just released "Discounting Human Rights: Wal-Mart's Violation of US Workers' Right to Freedom of Association," a detaile...

Apr 30, 2007 / The Nation

Israel’s Winograd Commission blasts Olmert, Peretz, Halutz Israel’s Winograd Commission blasts Olmert, Peretz, Halutz

The Winograd Commission, established by Israeli PM Ehud Olmert to investigate Israel's notably unsuccessful performance in last summer's war against Lebanon, today issued a first ...

Apr 30, 2007 / The Nation

Bad Guys Bad Guys

I hesitate to get into an inter-magazine pissing match, but I just couldn't let this post by The New Republic's James Kirchick go unanswered. Kirchick takes aim at the Nation's la...

Apr 30, 2007 / The Nation

The New Cold War The New Cold War

Doesn't it feel like a new cold war out there? Condi Rice has taken off those dominatrix black boots and slipped into dark cold war terminology: "The idea that somehow 10 interc...

Apr 30, 2007 / The Nation

How Not to Withdraw from Iraq: The Democrats’ Plan How Not to Withdraw from Iraq: The Democrats’ Plan

Before you imagine that the Democrats' plan, just passed by Congress, would actually get U.S. troops out of Iraq, read the fine print. Let's be clear about what it is -- when i...

Apr 30, 2007 / The Nation

Reality Check Reality Check

Want a reality check on the implications of the Supreme Court verdict in Gonzales v. Carhart? Throwing out thirty years of legal precedent, the court declared that Congress has an...

Apr 27, 2007 / The Nation

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