Is Gore Still Looking for Votes in Florida? Is Gore Still Looking for Votes in Florida?
Al Gore returned to Florida this weekend. And you know what that means. (Insert joke about butterfly ballots, hanging chads, Katherine Harris and Jews for Buchanan.) He still uses...
Mar 13, 2006 / Ari Berman
A Subversive Southerner Passes A Subversive Southerner Passes
On Monday, March 6, when Anne Braden died, the South lost one of its most dedicated, courageous and feisty fighters for racial justice, civil liberties and economic rights. I met ...
Mar 12, 2006 / Adam Howard
Vermont Paper Embraces Impeachment Push Vermont Paper Embraces Impeachment Push
When five Vermont towns voted for resolutions urging Congress to impeach President Bush, there were many in the media who dismissed the move as purely symbolic. But the local daily...
Mar 10, 2006 / Adam Howard
Could This Unleash an Unintended Nuclear War? Could This Unleash an Unintended Nuclear War?
Ann Tyson reports in the Washington Post yesterday that the Pentagon wants $500 million to convert 24 Trident missiles currently armed with nuclear warheads into rockets carrying c...
Mar 9, 2006 / Adam Howard
What Culture of Corruption? What Culture of Corruption?
Jack Abramoff is singing to Vanity Fair and planning to "name names" when his trial begins in Florida later this month. Duke Cunningham will soon serve eight years in the...
Mar 9, 2006 / Ari Berman
Dems Punking On Border Debate Dems Punking On Border Debate
Let's extend the discussion we're having here on immigration reform another round or so. Below this post you can read of my colleague Sam Graham-Felsen's hopes for the much-needed ...
Mar 9, 2006 / Adam Howard
Pork & Molasses Pork & Molasses
"If we say we need it, the American people can afford it," a high-ranking Pentagon official once told Vice Admiral John Shanahan years ago. By "it" he meant we...
Mar 8, 2006 / Ari Berman
Messing With DeLay Messing With DeLay
Well, maybe you can mess with Texas. Scandal-plagued former House Minority Leader Tom DeLay, whose career in Congress imploded after he was indicted for scheming to warp homestate ...
Mar 8, 2006 / Adam Howard
Looking for Votes in All The Wrong Places (continued) Looking for Votes in All The Wrong Places (continued)
Two weeks after I wrote about the North Carolina Republican Party's dubious effort to collect church membership directories, the IRS issued a report revealing that 37 of 47 churche...
Mar 7, 2006 / Adam Howard
“America Could Lose Its Army in Iraq” “America Could Lose Its Army in Iraq”
Imagine this scenario, as described last week in Washington by defense expert and former Senator Gary Hart. Overnight, Iraq has descended into a full-scale civil war. Shiites and ...
Mar 7, 2006 / Ari Berman