Who Lost Pakistan? Who Lost Pakistan?
How often can the Bush Administration be caught off guard by the consequences of its own actions? Endlessly, it seems.
Nov 6, 2007 / Feature / Tom Engelhardt
House Puts Impeachment On, Then Off, The Table House Puts Impeachment On, Then Off, The Table
The move by Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich to open a House debate on the question of whether to impeach Vice President Cheney turned into a imbroglio for the Democratic leadershi...
Nov 6, 2007 / John Nichols
It Is Time For “A National Inquest” It Is Time For “A National Inquest”
In May of 1972, when then-President Richard Nixon was riding as high as he ever would politically, anti-war activists attempted to place an advertisement in The New York Times urg...
Nov 6, 2007 / John Nichols
Will Rogers: The Bunkless Candidate Will Rogers: The Bunkless Candidate
"WHATEVER the other fellow don't do, we will." Thus refreshingly Will Rogers, the bunkless candidate for President, begins his campaign. It is, of course, a dangerous doctrine, b...
Nov 6, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Dorothy Van Doren
Cracking the Code Cracking the Code
How can the left be as adept as the right-wing spin machine at communicating its political agenda? Learn how to use the tools.
Nov 6, 2007 / Feature / Thom Hartmann
‘We Need a Nobel Prize in Law’ ‘We Need a Nobel Prize in Law’
It's very moving to watch how Pakistan's courageous lawyers have emerged, for the second time this year, as the vanguard of resistance to the Musharraf government. Angry protest...
Nov 6, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Judiciary Panel OK’s Waterboarding, Er, Mukasey Judiciary Panel OK’s Waterboarding, Er, Mukasey
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday morning approved President Bush's nomination of former Federal Judge Michael Mukasey to replace Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General. Muk...
Nov 6, 2007 / John Nichols
The New Prohibition The New Prohibition
Reason magazine offers a stinging critique of a new crop of increasingly draconian DUI laws titled, "Prohibition Returns!" One example: In Washington DC, cops can arrest ...
Nov 5, 2007 / Lakshmi Chaudhry
Citigroup: Too Big to Fail? Citigroup: Too Big to Fail?
The fall of Citigroup is a resonant political event--akin to the Republican Party's failure to win reform of Social Security--only this time the bell tolls for the Democratic Party...
Nov 5, 2007 / William Greider
Mukasey Is (Much) Worse Than Gonzales Mukasey Is (Much) Worse Than Gonzales
George Bush's nominee to replace disgraced former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, retired Federal Judge Michael B. Mukasey, must be rejected by the Senate Judiciary Committee f...
Nov 4, 2007 / John Nichols