Backing Gonzales Is Backing Torture Backing Gonzales Is Backing Torture
Is there bipartisan Congressional support for torture?
Jan 4, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer
Shirley Chisholm’s Legacy Shirley Chisholm’s Legacy
Thirty-three years ago this month, a member of the U.S. House from Brooklyn challenged her party and her country to think more boldly than it ever had before about what the occupa...
Jan 4, 2005 / John Nichols
San Francisco Conference: The Second League San Francisco Conference: The Second League
The delegates may be there to discuss peace, but the cold war is in full bloom at the UN's San Francisco Conference.
Jan 3, 2005 / Feature / Percy E. Corbett
Ken Lay Would Love SS Privatization Ken Lay Would Love SS Privatization
A New Year's Day story in the Washington Post reported that President Bush's allies in corporate trade associations, the financial and securities industries and Fortune 500 compan...
Jan 3, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Bush Fails a Global Test Bush Fails a Global Test
George Bush ended 2004 on a sour note. But at least he maintained his record as the most disingenuous president since Richard Nixon. When other world leaders rushed to respond t...
Dec 30, 2004 / John Nichols
How to Help Tsunami Victims How to Help Tsunami Victims
The earthquake and tsunami that ravaged thousands of coastline villages from Thailand to Somalia this past weekend has prompted an urgent need for relief from the international co...
Dec 29, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
Tim Spicer’s World Tim Spicer’s World
Why was a notorious mercenary awarded a $293 million Pentagon contract?
Dec 29, 2004 / Feature / Andrew Ackerman
A Devil’s Island for Our Times A Devil’s Island for Our Times
How can we let this evil persist?
Dec 28, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer
Martha Stewart’s Christmas Message Martha Stewart’s Christmas Message
Looking for some good news this holiday season? Check out Martha Stewart's Christmas 2004 message. The old Martha would have been instructing America's women how to wrap those pre...
Dec 27, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Rule One: Count Every Vote Rule One: Count Every Vote
Politics is a game played by rules. And the most important rule regarding close elections is that you don't win by being conciliatory during the recount process. Indeed, the only ...
Dec 27, 2004 / John Nichols