Samuel Alito v. James Madison Samuel Alito v. James Madison
No member of the Senate who takes seriously the oath they have sworn to defend the Constitution will vote to confirm judicial activist Samuel Alito's nomination to serve on the U....
Jan 6, 2006 / John Nichols
‘Out of Iraq’ ‘Out of Iraq’
Attacks by suicide bombers killed as many as 130 people in Iraq yesterday, rekindling fears of a return to mass sectarian killings after a relative lull. At the same general time ...
Jan 6, 2006 / Peter Rothberg
‘Fool Me Once…’ ‘Fool Me Once…’
The willingness of our most powerful media companies to defer to pressure from the White House is deeply disconcerting. In the name of national security, the Bush team repeatedly d...
Jan 5, 2006 / Column / Eric Alterman
Pandora’s Box Pandora’s Box
A deep planetary insecurity has fostered a rush to build boundaries around ourselves--psychic green zones--no matter how irrational, separating white from black or brown, Christian...
Jan 5, 2006 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
The President’s Measured Response to Criticism of His Secret Domestic Spying Operation The President’s Measured Response to Criticism of His Secret Domestic Spying Operation
Since I am Commander in Chief, My powers to spy or debrief Are limitless. That's my belief. So go somewhere else with your beef.
Jan 5, 2006 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Jack Gordon Jack Gordon
Jack Gordon, "the unabashedly liberal conscience of Florida's State Senate," was chosen majority leader at a time when his politics should have made him an anathema. His fight agai...
Jan 5, 2006 / Molly Ivins
Harry Magdoff Harry Magdoff
The late socialist economist Harry Magdoff read Marx at fifteen and never looked back. A self-educated co-editor of the Monthly Review, he not only fought for a just and humane wor...
Jan 5, 2006 / Books & the Arts / The Nation
Hunger Is Not a Place Hunger Is Not a Place
It's not true that only the rich can help the poor. We must work to empower nations like Bangladesh that are addressing the problem of hunger by creating networks of schools, healt...
Jan 5, 2006 / Frances Moore Lappé
Of Queers and Kong Of Queers and Kong
From Brokeback Mountain's closeted cowboys to King Kong's embrace of Anne Darrow, Hollywood has queered cherished icons of masculinity. But the two films paint a bleak picture: Lov...
Jan 5, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Richard Goldstein