Bush Enters Border Fray Bush Enters Border Fray
With the Senate coming back from its recess, will it now pick up from where it left off two weeks ago and finally get around to passing comprehensive immigration reform? Under pr...
Apr 25, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
Does the Washington Post Read Its Own Business Columnist? Does the Washington Post Read Its Own Business Columnist?
Maybe it was Exxon's CEO raking in $144,573 a day in compensation that moved mainstream media outlets to look more closely at the way corporations are shredding their social contr...
Apr 24, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
When Will James Dobson See The Light? When Will James Dobson See The Light?
In her smart Los Angeles Times op-ed, "E-Gitator" Laurie David (as she was dubbed in a lavish spread in Vanity Fair's current "Green Issue,") observes that "the issue of global wa...
Apr 23, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
Giuliani Distancing Himself From Pro-Gay Past? Giuliani Distancing Himself From Pro-Gay Past?
An interesting tidbit from the Advocate shows Giuliani's continuing campaign to woo evangelicals. Seems he's really going all-out in embracing these guys, as was reported during h...
Apr 21, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
Bush the Unpopular Bush the Unpopular
The numbers from the new Survey USA polling on President Bush are stunning. As EJ Dionne notes in his Washington Post column today, a majority of voters approve of Bush in just fo...
Apr 21, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
Populist Potential in the South Populist Potential in the South
At a time when the red-blue political map looks close-to-obsolete, check out the fascinating snapshot of Southern politics offered up in the Pew Research Center's latest poll. The...
Apr 20, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
Abramoff’s First Casualty Abramoff’s First Casualty
Let's hope Rudy Giuliani picked up a copy of the Wall Street Journal today. In its pages journalist Jeanne Cummings asks whether Ralph Reed will "become the first casualty of ...
Apr 20, 2006 / The Notion / Ari Berman
Giuliani’s Boy Wonder Giuliani’s Boy Wonder
John McCain recently courted Jerry Falwell. So I guess Rudy Giuliani felt he needed to get Ralph Reed. According to the Associated Press, Giuliani has agreed to headline a fundrais...
Apr 19, 2006 / The Notion / Ari Berman
McClellan’s Off the “Accomplished” Team McClellan’s Off the “Accomplished” Team
White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan could not resist adding a little irony to the session where it was announced that he was being fired -- er, stepping down -- as the chie...
Apr 19, 2006 / The Notion / Adam Howard
Fair & Balanced White House? Fair & Balanced White House?
Finally, total synchronicity. Fox News and the White House are merging into one entity. Well, not really. CNN just reported that a few weeks ago new White House chief of staff Jos...
Apr 18, 2006 / The Notion / Ari Berman