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Reconstruction Corruption Watch IV Reconstruction Corruption Watch IV

First, the company's own employee blows the whistle on its failure to use water purification equipment. And now a physician serving in Iraq ties an outbreak of bacterial infection...

Apr 10, 2006 / Adam Howard

Berlusconi Backfires Berlusconi Backfires

Following up on John Nichols' post about Silvio Berlusconi's likely election defeat, I'm posting a dispatch from our ace Washington intern Cora Currier, who lived in Italy and, unl...

Apr 10, 2006 / Ari Berman

Italy Votes for Withdrawal Italy Votes for Withdrawal

George Bush's second closest comrade in the neoconservative "coalition of the willing" occupiers of Iraq has been swept from power. And that means that Italy will soon wi...

Apr 10, 2006 / Adam Howard

Pro-Immigrant Marches Surging Nationwide Pro-Immigrant Marches Surging Nationwide

For the second time in two weeks an American city was rocked Sunday by a pro-immigrant demonstration of undeniably historic magnitude. As many as a half-million people, wearing whi...

Apr 10, 2006 / Adam Howard

Thin Reid: Harry KO’s Border Reform Thin Reid: Harry KO’s Border Reform

The perhaps fatal collapse Friday of a Senate compromise on sweeping and liberalized immigration reform was, in itself, not totally unpredictable. What might astound some, however...

Apr 8, 2006 / Adam Howard

Give ’em Hell Harry! Give ’em Hell Harry!

As his approval ratings plummet, Bush has started attending meetings, town halls and local forums with real people. (Isn't this what presidents are supposed to do? Reading some o...

Apr 7, 2006 / Adam Howard

House Republicans: Bring Back DeLay House Republicans: Bring Back DeLay

Oh, how House Republicans must miss Tom DeLay. There have been a series of embarrassments for the House leadership since DeLay stepped down as Majority Leader in September. The dec...

Apr 7, 2006 / Ari Berman

Marriage Myopia Marriage Myopia

If you want to see the pathologies plaguing the gay marriage movement in action, you need look no farther than this article penned by Jasmyne Cannick. Titled "Gays First, Then...

Apr 6, 2006 / Richard Kim

White House Troubled By Democracy in U.S. White House Troubled By Democracy in U.S.

Defenders of the war in Iraq are always quick to dismiss any expression of opposition by the American people as so inconsequential that no one in Washington will take notice. That'...

Apr 6, 2006 / Adam Howard

Cynthia McKinney, Enough Already! Cynthia McKinney, Enough Already!

The media should be talking about Tom DeLay and the collapse of the conservative movement. About immigration reform and the divide in the Republican Party. About how the Bush Admin...

Apr 5, 2006 / Ari Berman

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