The Inaugural on $250,000 a Day The Inaugural on $250,000 a Day
How the upper one-one-hundredth of 1 percent does politics.
Jan 19, 2005 / Micah L. Sifry
An Un-American Inaugural An Un-American Inaugural
The First Lady has always merited her designation as "the brighter Bush." But, clearly, she needs to study up on American history. With concern mounting about the wisdom of the B...
Jan 19, 2005 / John Nichols
Crying Wolf Crying Wolf
Social Security is in danger. We must take preventive action: Baathist dead-enders have targeted the Social Security lockbox with Saddam's nonexistent weapons of mass destruction....
Jan 19, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Pomp and Improper Circumstance Pomp and Improper Circumstance
Some might say it's tacky to rain on the President's parade, but two crucial news stories compel it.
Jan 18, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer
Holding WMD Liars Accountable Holding WMD Liars Accountable
Now that the Bush administration has finally stopped wasting millions of tax dollars each month on the futile search for the weapons of mass destruction it promised would be found...
Jan 17, 2005 / John Nichols
Babushkas Versus Putin Babushkas Versus Putin
In February 1917, bread riots took place in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg), and spread quickly to working-class quarters where the violence increased. Women, many of them elderly,...
Jan 16, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
MLK’s moral values MLK’s moral values
The anniversary of the birth of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. falls just five days before the second inauguration of a president who has broken faith with most of the civil righ...
Jan 15, 2005 / John Nichols
Partying While Baghdad Burns Partying While Baghdad Burns
While death benefits for troops in Iraq remain at $12,000, George W. Bush is throwing himself a $40 million party to celebrate the first time in his life he out-achieved his fath...
Jan 13, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Rebirth of the Modern The Rebirth of the Modern
The letterhead of Columbia University, where I taught for four decades, reads in full "Columbia University in the City of New York," not because there is much likelihood that any...
Jan 13, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Beyond Good and Evil Beyond Good and Evil
Adorno said, as we all know, that writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. This is not to say, as many imagine, that writing poetry after Auschwitz is to be forbidden, or is i...
Jan 13, 2005 / Books & the Arts / John Banville