Checks and Balances Anyone? Checks and Balances Anyone?
When it was proposed during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that the sole power "to make war" be vested in the Congress, the measure carried overwhelmingly. Only one delegat...
Jul 10, 2003 / John Nichols
A Diplomat’s Undiplomatic Truth: They Lied A Diplomat’s Undiplomatic Truth: They Lied
A former US ambassador says Cheney and others knew the alleged Iraq uranium purchase was baseless long before Bush used it in his State of the Union speech
Jul 9, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
Bottom of the Ninth on Capitol Hill Bottom of the Ninth on Capitol Hill
The American people have already changed the character of the debate over media consolidation and monopoly. Now, they may well be on the verge of winning a historically unpreceden...
Jul 8, 2003 / John Nichols
More Evidence Bush Misled Nation More Evidence Bush Misled Nation
If you blinked--or were busy buying hot-dogs and beer for a Fourth of July cookout--you might have missed the latest evidence that George W. Bush misreprese...
Jul 7, 2003 / David Corn
The Terminator President The Terminator President
What's it come to when Arnold Schwarzenegger plays the role of commander-in-chief and the US President acts like the Terminator? On his fourth of July USO tour of Baghdad, Schwar...
Jul 7, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Social Unionism–Salvadoran Style Social Unionism–Salvadoran Style
For the first time in Salvadoran history, a new union is bringing together workers from the country's phone companies, Internet sector, radio and TV stations, and newspapers and ...
Jul 7, 2003 / Peter Rothberg
Miles Davis Miles Davis
Most of what we know about the life of Miles Davis is either anecdotal or a matter of official record, and thus not absolutely reliable; but by all accounts, most pertinently h...
Jul 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Lucius Shepard
The Girls of Summer The Girls of Summer
This Independence Day, the symbolic struggle being waged on thousands of screens across the Empire pits Reese Witherspoon against Arnold Schwarzenegger, gooey-sweet girl agains...
Jul 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Road Map to Nowhere The Road Map to Nowhere
Although the laboriously negotiated and long-delayed Middle East "road map" received a diplomatic boost by the recent intervention of George W. Bush, the plan is replet...
Jul 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Roane Carey