Nation Topics - Grover Norquist | The Nation

Judging by his advisers, Romney would embrace Bush’s unilateral interventionism and massive military budgets.

Among Republicans, a civil war has broken out over defense spending.

Obama can ensure his recovery plan is untainted by corruption and waste by mandating controls that track where money flows and evaluate results.

A serious debate focused about torture, wiretapping, food prices, world hunger... oh, wait. That's the kind of fairy tale they don't do at Disney.

Iraq has become a liability the GOP can hardly afford.

Falsehoods, fudges and outright lies have defined Ralph Reed's career.
Tarnished by the Abramoff scandal, he's betting his political future on
the tendency of the religious right to see no evil in its leaders.

Loads of student activists--far-left and moderate, dredded and
shiny-shoed--and their mentors responded to Sam Graham-Felsen's "The New
Face of the Campus Left" [Feb. 13].

Since the 1970s Republican conservatives have been the dominant
political force on American campuses. But groups like Campus
Progress, better groomed and better organized than their
predecessors, are pushing back.

What irony that Jack Abramoff and other once-young Republicans, who hectored their elders about defending the nation's taxpayers and security forces, should now be accused of deeply betraying both.

John McCain is a war hero, a sometime Democratic ally, a crusader for
campaign finance reform. But the centrist maverick will most likely
take a turn to the right if he wants to get to the White House.