Don’t Forget Iraq Don’t Forget Iraq
Ring in the New Year with a commitment to nonviolent direct action to end the Iraq war and to prevent an extension of US military aggression to Iran and other countries. Startin...
Dec 31, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
The Most Valuable Progressives The Most Valuable Progressives
Let down by a dangerous Republican White House, a compromising Democratic Congress and a distracting and dysfunctional mainstream media, progressives persevered in 2007, laying th...
Dec 31, 2007 / John Nichols
Oprah Winfrey versus John Mellencamp Oprah Winfrey versus John Mellencamp
DES MOINES -- The announcement of John Mellencamp's Wednesday night show to cap the Iowa caucus campaign of John Edwards did not provoke the media frenzy that accompanied Oprah Wi...
Dec 31, 2007 / John Nichols
Amnesia at the Multiplex Amnesia at the Multiplex
Two films address US adventures in Afghanistan and Pakistan, with a big dose of historical amnesia, political pandering, moral superiority and outraged innocence.
Dec 30, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Lakshmi Chaudhry
Obama: More Money, More Problems Obama: More Money, More Problems
Barack Obama's presidential campaign is circulating an unusual memo complaining that "unprecedented" spending by Democratic groups could "impact the outcome" in...
Dec 30, 2007 / Ari Melber
Bill Kristol Gets New York Times Op-Ed Slot Bill Kristol Gets New York Times Op-Ed Slot
Just shoot me. First, it was Sam Tanenhaus, conservative editor of the New York Times Book Review being put in charge of the News of the Week in Review section. That means one...
Dec 29, 2007 / Katha Pollitt
Pakistan Without Benazir Pakistan Without Benazir
The deeply flawed, arresting, autocratic Benazir Bhutto had the wherewithal to save her country but repeatedly disappointed. Yet she represented the best secular option for breach...
Dec 28, 2007 / Feature / Moni Mohsin
Benazir Bhutto: A Death Foretold Benazir Bhutto: A Death Foretold
For all her pro-American rhetoric, many in Benazir Bhutto's party held America responsible for the "judicial murder" of her father. Will Bhutto's assassination have a like impact?
Dec 28, 2007 / Feature / Graham Usher
Bush, Musharraf and the Slaying of Benazir Bhutto Bush, Musharraf and the Slaying of Benazir Bhutto
Minutes before she was assassinated in Pakistan, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto told a rally in Rawalpindi that, "I put my life in danger and came here because I feel this c...
Dec 28, 2007 / John Nichols
Taking Care of Caretaking Taking Care of Caretaking
This morning, TakeCareNet released the results of its survey of presidential candidates' positions on 26 public policies related to work, family, and caregiving. Co-sponsored b...
Dec 27, 2007 / Katha Pollitt