Affirmative Action for White Men, Chap. 4,651 Affirmative Action for White Men, Chap. 4,651
It isn't often that someone owns up to flagrant sex discrimination inthe op-ed page of the New York Times, so I suppose we should begrateful to Kenyon College dean of admissions Je...
Mar 23, 2006 / Adam Howard
The End of TINA The End of TINA
I'm in a secure and undisclosed location for a 52 hour break from thebrutal beast called a political weekly. That's why I'm on e-mail at 11pm Tuesday night. (And scouring the local...
Mar 22, 2006 / Adam Howard
No Light in the Tunnel No Light in the Tunnel
Hope and fear are always the polar forces at work in Americanpolitics and this Texas-macho President has brilliantly orchestrated thenation's fear of terrorism into a winning posit...
Mar 22, 2006 / Adam Howard
An Undocumented “Sanctuary” An Undocumented “Sanctuary”
The rhetorical war over immigration has suddenly become a ground war in Southern California. While some towns in conservative Orange County are now encouraging their local police t...
Mar 22, 2006 / Adam Howard
Operation Overhyped Operation Overhyped
Last Thursday the Pentagon launched "Operation Swarmer"--described as the largest air assault in Iraq since March 2003. I was at a conference on Iraq at the Center for Am...
Mar 20, 2006 / Ari Berman
Rumsfeld Is “Absolutely Crazy” Rumsfeld Is “Absolutely Crazy”
There is not a lot of debate anymore about the fact that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is the loosest cannon in the arsenal. Consider his claim, made in a Sunday oped piece ...
Mar 20, 2006 / Adam Howard
Hillary’s E-mail Hillary’s E-mail
In the March 27 issue of The Nation, Ari Berman writes of top Democratic consultants' strategy to either completely avoid discussing Iraq or support the war while criticizing Georg...
Mar 18, 2006 / Adam Howard
Pledging to Vote for Peace Pledging to Vote for Peace
How many Americans would pledge to cast their votes in November only for candidates who want to end the war in Iraq? According to a poll conducted for the new group Vote for Peace...
Mar 17, 2006 / Adam Howard
Get Your War Out Get Your War Out
On the day the Bush Administration renewed its commitment to preemptive war--and conveniently launched the largest air strikes in Iraq since March 2003--a conference of security ex...
Mar 16, 2006 / Ari Berman
Censure Update Censure Update
The editors at the New York Times belatedly decided that SenatorRuss Feingold's censure resolution is front-page news after all. Onlytheir storytoday has a cute twist: Censure is a...
Mar 16, 2006 / Adam Howard