John Dean: From Nixon to Bush to Giuliani John Dean: From Nixon to Bush to Giuliani
John Dean knows something about White House abuse of power. He wrote a bestseller in 2004 on the Bush White House called "Worse Than Watergate." In a recent interview I a...
Sep 28, 2007 / Jon Wiener
Congress Quietly Approves Billions More for Iraq War Congress Quietly Approves Billions More for Iraq War
The Senate agreed on Thursday to increase the federal debt limit by $850 billion -- from $8.965 trillion to $9.815 trillion -- and then proceeded to approve a stop-gap spending bi...
Sep 28, 2007 / John Nichols
When Monks Get Mad When Monks Get Mad
If you think the Buddhist monks challenging the military regime in Myanmar are passive and peaceful, think again.
Sep 28, 2007 / Andrew Lam
Ending War for Profit Ending War for Profit
Based on the work of Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard public finance lecturer Linda J. Bilmes, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) recently d...
Sep 27, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Ken Burns’s War Ken Burns’s War
His nostalgic PBS series casts WWII as acrucible of meaning. Too bad it lacked a tighter focus on the moral failure of combat.
Sep 27, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Chris Hayes
Next on Jena at the New York Times? Next on Jena at the New York Times?
In response to those who've written to ask whether I read Louisiana District Attorney, Reed Walters' op-ed in the New York Times. Yes I did! And I asked Alan Bean about it today o...
Sep 27, 2007 / Laura Flanders
Giving Back Clinton-Style Giving Back Clinton-Style
Presidents, prime ministers, CEOs and religious leaders packed the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) on Thursday, Bill Clinton's third annual gathering to solve the "world's mos...
Sep 27, 2007 / Ari Melber
Protecting the Wiretappers Protecting the Wiretappers
Now that telecommunications giants are shielded from lawsuits for warrantless spying, the Bush Administration is seeking to absolve them of past misdeeds.
Frank Schaeffer Goes Crazy for God Frank Schaeffer Goes Crazy for God
The original poster child for the religious right describes how he came to terms with religion and an odd upbringing.
Sep 27, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Jane Smiley
The Best Wars of Their Lives The Best Wars of Their Lives
A historian plugs some suspicious gaps in two revisionist histories of Vietnam.
Sep 27, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Rick Perlstein