So You Want to Be a Rock & Roll Star? So You Want to Be a Rock & Roll Star?
Remember when your parents used to say, if you study hard you can grow up to be President? Remember when it was, well, the job to aspire to? But what with Bush at 29 percent appr...
May 12, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
Wolfowitz’s New Comb Wolfowitz’s New Comb
Almost a year has passed since Iraq War architect and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz became president of the World Bank -- and the reviews have been slow to come, largely...
May 11, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
Block that Cliche! Block that Cliche!
Most people agree that it's unattractive to try to stop a campusspeaker--however odious--who comes simply to present a point of view.But the choice of commencement speaker is a di...
May 11, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
A Corporate Horror Story A Corporate Horror Story
While everyone I know waits for Patrick Fitzgerald's next move--will he or won't he indict Karl Rove?-- I eagerly await the verdict in the Enron trial. Remember that giant corpo...
May 11, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
The Bada Bing Club The Bada Bing Club
In a must-read Chigago Tribune op-ed, GWU law professor Jonathan Turley makes the striking but often ignored point that the Bush Administration has a penchant for hiring those who...
May 11, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
Mary vs. Kerry Mary vs. Kerry
The election is history, but the war between a Cheney (Mary) and a Kerry (John) lives on. In her new memoir, Now It's My Turn, Cheney's lesbian daughter calls Kerry a "son of a b...
May 10, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
Byrd Is Soaring Byrd Is Soaring
U.S. Senator Robert Byrd, ardent critic of President Bush's decision to go to war with Iraq, outspoken opponent of the administration's domestic-spying program and chief Congressi...
May 10, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
Shying from Spying Shying from Spying
Democrats are out for the kill. Republicans are on the defensive. Right? Not exactly. When it comes to national security, many Democrats are still pulling their punches, even wit...
May 10, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
Hastert Trashes Hayden Hastert Trashes Hayden
General Michael Hayden is getting a warm reception from the Senate Intelligence Committee, who gets first dibs on his nomination as CIA director. But elsewhere on the Hill promine...
May 9, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
Ray McGovern for CIA Director Ray McGovern for CIA Director
Here's an idea…. instead of appointing the chief architect of the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program, Gen. Michael Hayden, as the new CIA Director--how about the chief archit...
May 8, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation