What’s Your Obama Tax Cut? What’s Your Obama Tax Cut?
According to a recent Gallup poll, fifty-three percent of Americans expect their federal income taxes to increase if Barack Obama is elected president. The truth: The Democratic ...
Sep 10, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Nation Notes Nation Notes
We are pleased to note several additions to our masthead.
Sep 10, 2008 / The Editors
Beauty and the Beast Beauty and the Beast
The old warrior deploys sex as a central political weapon to recharge his potency and his party's fortunes. Is there a trap here?
Sep 10, 2008 / JoAnn Wypijewski
Noted. Noted.
Reading Bob Woodward, defending Amy Goodman, evaluating Governor Palin.
Sep 10, 2008 / The Editors
Our Polar Bears, Ourselves Our Polar Bears, Ourselves
Sarah Palin played a key role in the Bush administration's effort to ditch the Endangered Species Act.
Sep 10, 2008 / Mark Hertsgaard
Backward Bailout Backward Bailout
Instead of bailing out the money guys who created the housing crisis, Washington should concentrate on healing the victims.
Sep 10, 2008 / The Editors
Lipstick on a Wing Nut Lipstick on a Wing Nut
Ten tough questions for Sarah Palin. Really tough.
Sep 10, 2008 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Fatal Distraction Fatal Distraction
Obama's responses to the crises of the war and the failing economy are so flimsy, no wonder the GOP has so handily changed the subject.
Sep 10, 2008 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
The Secret Behind the Surge The Secret Behind the Surge
Bob Woodward's new book on the Bush years in Iraq raises the possibility that extrajudicial killings--not the surge--were the biggest factor in reducing violence.
Sep 10, 2008 / Feature / Tom Hayden
Lethal High-Tech Counterinsurgency in Iraq Lethal High-Tech Counterinsurgency in Iraq
Bob Woodward, in "The War Within," has a mysterious passage about the supersecret, high-tech assassination efforts aimed at Iraqi militants. It's all hush-hush, but there is other...
Sep 10, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss