Politics

After the Libby Indictment After the Libby Indictment

The CIA leak scandal has revealed the Bush crew's dishonesty and hypocrisy. But don't expect the Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald or Bush to ever explain what really happened.

Nov 3, 2005 / David Corn

Showdown on the Court Showdown on the Court

The nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the US Supreme Court forces the debate the President and the Senate have tried so mightily to avoid: whether the Court should shift decisive...

Nov 3, 2005 / The Editors

All the King’s Media All the King’s Media

The scandals suffocating the Bush Administration seem less like Nixon and Watergate and more like Louis XV and pre-Revolutionary France. They are harbingers of a potent cultural ev...

Nov 3, 2005 / Books & the Arts / William Greider

Before School Before School

San Francisco recently launched universal preschool, designed to make young participants higher earners and better citizens when they reach adulthood. If successful, San Francisco&...

Nov 3, 2005 / Feature / David Kirp

On the Wal-Mart Money Trail On the Wal-Mart Money Trail

As the nation's wealthiest family, the Waltons could be a force for social good. But when they choose to spend their fortune lobbying for pet projects, tax cuts and charter schools...

Nov 3, 2005 / Feature / Liza Featherstone

Abramoff’s Last Stand Abramoff’s Last Stand

Senator John McCain's latest Senate inquiry into über-lobbyist Jack Abramoff strikes deep in the corrupt heart of the Bush Administration.

Nov 3, 2005 / Feature / Ari Berman

The Power of Fear The Power of Fear

Jill Lepore's New York Burning paints a realistic portrait of a purported slave rebellion in 1741 and the hysteria that followed, a harrowing lesson of how abusers of power become ...

Nov 2, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Russell Shorto

Senate Democrats Show Some Spine Senate Democrats Show Some Spine

Senate minority leader Harry Reid forced Republicans into a closed-door session Tuesday to examine the Administration's use and misuse of intelligence on Iraq. Could Democrats fina...

Nov 1, 2005 / Feature / John Nichols

Serious Questions for Samuel A. Alito Jr. Serious Questions for Samuel A. Alito Jr.

Questions for Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr.: What are the rights of an individual before the law? Are these rights any different from what Alito views as the rights of ...

Nov 1, 2005 / Morton Mintz

Can Dems Say ‘Finito’ to ‘Scalito’? Can Dems Say ‘Finito’ to ‘Scalito’?

If the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court becomes the titanic battle that both sides in the judicial wars have been anticipating for years, Democrats must create a new...

Oct 31, 2005 / David Corn

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