Purple America Purple America
Democrats are poised to seize a historic opportunity to win back voters in the South and West they started losing four decades ago.
Targeting Alaska’s Terrible Two Targeting Alaska’s Terrible Two
Alaska Senator Ted Stevens and Representative Don Young, the dynamic duo that brought us the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere," have long been known as the unrepentant kings o...
Jul 25, 2007 / Ari Berman
Clinton, Kissinger and the Corruptions of Empire Clinton, Kissinger and the Corruptions of Empire
Of all the corruptions of empire, few are darker than the claim that diplomacy must be kept secret from the citizenry. This hide-it-from-the people faith that only a cloistered g...
Jul 25, 2007 / John Nichols
A War Not Worth Fighting A War Not Worth Fighting
Public sentiment is solidly against the war; when will the President and political leaders of both parties have the courage to end it?
Jul 25, 2007 / Column / Robert Scheer
The Democrats Increased Funding for WHAT? The Democrats Increased Funding for WHAT?
I'm way late on this, so I hope you've already squawked to your congressperson about a particularly nasty bit of gristle buried in the big fat bratwurst that is the ...
Jul 25, 2007 / Katha Pollitt
Why Obama Got it Right Why Obama Got it Right
In Monday's debate, and with the benefit of having time to think through her response, HillaryClinton posed as the foreign policy sophisticate to Barack Obama the bold leader who ...
Jul 25, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Outsourcing Intelligence Outsourcing Intelligence
Key aspects of national security, including intelligence and analysis used to create the President's Daily Brief, have been turned over to private corporations.
Jul 24, 2007 / Feature / R.J. Hillhouse
Future 5000 Future 5000
Who says students are apathetic? In periodic posts, I've tried to debunk the silly and unfounded notion that young people are insufficiently engaged with the critical political, e...
Jul 24, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Cindy Sheehan: “Challenge the Status Quo” Cindy Sheehan: “Challenge the Status Quo”
Fresh from being arrested on Capitol Hill, along with 45 other activists demanding that Congress get about the business of impeaching George Bush and Dick Cheney, Cindy Sheehan ha...
Jul 24, 2007 / John Nichols
Attack of the Raging Chicks Attack of the Raging Chicks
New York Times columnist David Brooks is one of the more effective conservative commentators, in that he is a master at making outrageous arguments with a professorial elan that su...
Jul 24, 2007 / Lakshmi Chaudhry