Iran, Fearmongering & Election ’08 Iran, Fearmongering & Election ’08
The essential and not surprising reality of 2008: The Republicans are desperate for a national security threat to rally their base. How else to explain McCain's uber-adviser/ lob...
Jun 30, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Monday Capitol Letter Monday Capitol Letter
Courtesy of new Washington DC intern Bobby Allyn, a quick recap of last week's Hill activity: In the House … The House passed two energy bills Thursday, One (HR 6052) giving t...
Jun 30, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Shaking Up Pandora’s Box in Iran Shaking Up Pandora’s Box in Iran
Did the United States, or did it not, approve a $400 million covert operation against Iran last year, backed by an official "presidential finding"? And did the Democrats in Congre...
Jun 30, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
Hullabaloo Hullabaloo
This Week: As the Supreme Court rules pistols are trustworthy and convenient, Kang knows her AWOL chief of staff isn't at the beach.
Jun 30, 2008 / Feature / Gary Phillips
Gates to Join Obama? Uh-Oh Gates to Join Obama? Uh-Oh
According to insiders, Barack Obama's campaign is debating how long it can leave ambiguous the notion of "residual forces" in Iraq after a presumed Obama-ordered withdrawal of com...
Jun 29, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
Obama Read Zimbabwe Right… More Than a Year Ago Obama Read Zimbabwe Right… More Than a Year Ago
The world is suddenly paying a measure of the attention that is necessary to the democratic crisis in Zimbabwe, where strongman President Robert Mugabe has used violence and intim...
Jun 29, 2008 / John Nichols
A New Geological Era for Earth A New Geological Era for Earth
As human actions change the planet in irreversable ways, will human bonds suffer irreversable damage, too?
Jun 27, 2008 / Feature / Mike Davis
Perversion of Justice Perversion of Justice
A scathing new report confirms some of our worst fears about Bush Administration's politicization of the Justice Department.
Jun 27, 2008 / Feature / Emily Berman
This Brave Nation: A Defining Moment This Brave Nation: A Defining Moment
Legendary activist Tom Hayden talks with Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine, about the state of the fourth branch of government.
Jun 27, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Brave Nation
Got A Plan for Zimbabwe? I Don’t Got A Plan for Zimbabwe? I Don’t
It's ugly in Zimbabwe. It was ugly in Iraq, too, in 2003. The world is full of ugly places. But let's hope the coolest of cool heads prevail before any sort of outside interventio...
Jun 27, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss