Women’s Advocate Is UN’s New Human Rights Chief Women’s Advocate Is UN’s New Human Rights Chief
Despite the Bush Administration's scramble to scuttle her nomination because she is--gasp!--a feminist, a South African judge is named high commissioner for human rights.
Jul 27, 2008 / Feature / Barbara Crossette
Iraq on the Edge Iraq on the Edge
While everyone's looking at Iraq's effect on American politics -- and whether or not John McCain and Barack Obama are converging on a policy that combines a flexible timetable wit...
Jul 27, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
Obama’s Berlin Visit Obama’s Berlin Visit
A nation whose citizens have been largely turned off to politics held Barack Obama in a fervent embrace, viewing America once again as a place of new possibilities.
Jul 26, 2008 / Feature / Norman Birnbaum
House Committee Considers the “I” Word House Committee Considers the “I” Word
As the House Judiciary Committee took up the question of how best to address what its chairman described as "the Imperial Presidency of George W. Bush," it was one of the ranking ...
Jul 25, 2008 / John Nichols
Friday Capitol Letter Friday Capitol Letter
In the House ... The House passedlegislationWednesday that seeks to rescue the housing market, but also grants the Treasury Department authority to protect (read: bail out) Fannie...
Jul 25, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Make Freddie and Fannie Go Green Make Freddie and Fannie Go Green
Don't just bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: require them to start building environmentally responsible homes.
Jul 24, 2008 / James S. Henry and Brent Blackwelder
TheNewKlan.Org TheNewKlan.Org
Oy. Last night Bill O'Reilly said: "It is not a stretch to say that MoveOn is the new Klan." This kind of rhetoric crafted to marginalize MoveOn is a mainstay of the right: For...
Jul 24, 2008 / Chris Hayes
An Opening for the Constitution An Opening for the Constitution
Thirty-four years ago this month, when the House Judiciary Committee was considering strategies for holding a lawbreaking president to account, the most determined advocate for im...
Jul 24, 2008 / John Nichols
The Plight Of Iraq’s Refugees The Plight Of Iraq’s Refugees
Conservatives had a tendency to attribute the all of the reduction of violence in Iraq to the increase in US troops. But one of the most overlooked stories of Iraq is the massive ...
Jul 24, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Maliki the Thug Maliki the Thug
The current Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, is in the news lately over his endorsement of Barack Obama's plan for withdrawing troops on a sixteen-month timetable, but yeste...
Jul 24, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss