IRS Privacy Nightmare IRS Privacy Nightmare
The IRS has quietly proposed astounding new rules which would allow tax preparers to sell the contents of their client's tax returns to third-party businesses, as long as a requis...
Apr 10, 2006 / Peter Rothberg
A Conversation With Dan Wakefield A Conversation With Dan Wakefield
Dan Wakefield talks about his new book, The Hijacking of Jesus, and his optimism about the growing power of the religious left.
Apr 10, 2006 / Feature / Eric Stoner
The Nino Scalia Guide to Sicilian Hand Gestures The Nino Scalia Guide to Sicilian Hand Gestures
It can now be revealed that Justice Antonin Scalia has compiled his own secret list of Sicilian hand gestures expressing subtle jurisprudential points.
Apr 10, 2006 / Feature / Garrett Epps
Rabbit’s Revenge Rabbit’s Revenge
Time-honored traditions of Christianity are being challenged by scientists and scholars questioning the motives of Jesus, Judas and the power of prayer.
Apr 10, 2006 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
All the Gossip That’s Fit to Print All the Gossip That’s Fit to Print
When the New York Times redesigned its website, I started to worry -- so dumbed down, so much white space, so many bells and whistles. Was the Times having another identity crisis ...
Apr 10, 2006 / Richard Kim
Reconstruction Corruption Watch IV Reconstruction Corruption Watch IV
First, the company's own employee blows the whistle on its failure to use water purification equipment. And now a physician serving in Iraq ties an outbreak of bacterial infection...
Apr 10, 2006 / Adam Howard
Berlusconi Backfires Berlusconi Backfires
Following up on John Nichols' post about Silvio Berlusconi's likely election defeat, I'm posting a dispatch from our ace Washington intern Cora Currier, who lived in Italy and, unl...
Apr 10, 2006 / Ari Berman
Italy Votes for Withdrawal Italy Votes for Withdrawal
George Bush's second closest comrade in the neoconservative "coalition of the willing" occupiers of Iraq has been swept from power. And that means that Italy will soon wi...
Apr 10, 2006 / Adam Howard
When Will Democrats Break With Bush? When Will Democrats Break With Bush?
In light of the news that President Bush authorized a top Administration aide to use previously classified information as part of an orchestrated political attack on a prominent c...
Apr 10, 2006 / John Nichols
Pro-Immigrant Marches Surging Nationwide Pro-Immigrant Marches Surging Nationwide
For the second time in two weeks an American city was rocked Sunday by a pro-immigrant demonstration of undeniably historic magnitude. As many as a half-million people, wearing whi...
Apr 10, 2006 / Adam Howard