Censure for Bush & Cheney? Censure for Bush & Cheney?
On Meet the Press Sunday, Senator Russ Feingold announced that he will be introducing two censure resolutions in the next few days, aimed at holding President Bush, Vice-President ...
Jul 22, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
President Cheney — Officially President Cheney — Officially
Presuming that he could be distracted by a colonoscopy, George Bush on Saturday arranged to briefly transfer the authority of the presidency to Dick Cheney. Surely, Cheney, who h...
Jul 21, 2007 / John Nichols
Coming up on Meet the Press Coming up on Meet the Press
Friday night, one of my colleagues alerted me to the fact that I had confused McConnells. It's not the Bush "enabler" Senator (Mitch of Kentucky) who's going to be on NB...
Jul 21, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Hillary Clinton Wears V-Neck Top! Details at 11. Hillary Clinton Wears V-Neck Top! Details at 11.
Of all the silly, breathless, overthinky pieces about Hillary Clinton's appearance, I mean campaign, this labored bit of style-section psychobabble by Washington Post fa...
Jul 20, 2007 / Katha Pollitt
DeLay’s Not Dead DeLay’s Not Dead
Tom DeLay is not dead. In Max Blumenthal's new video he appears at the College Republicans annual convention, offering an unconventional solution to America's illegal immigration p...
Jul 20, 2007 / Ari Berman
Sweet Ideas Sweet Ideas
Behind each sweet victory, there is usually a sweet idea. So it is heartening to see that The Roosevelt Institution, the nation's first student think tank, has been channeling it...
Jul 20, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Who Let the Dogs Out on Michael Vick? Who Let the Dogs Out on Michael Vick?
With the indictment of the Atlanta Falcons quarterback on federal conspiracy charges for running an alleged dogfighting operation, the media went into attack mode.
Jul 19, 2007 / Column / Dave Zirin
Red Mosque: Endgame for Musharraf? Red Mosque: Endgame for Musharraf?
In the violent aftermath of the storming of Islamabad's Red Mosque, the military-mullah alliance that kept Pervez Musharraf in power is unraveling, the Taliban is ascendant, and ho...
Jul 19, 2007 / Feature / Graham Usher
Powell: Engage Hamas Powell: Engage Hamas
The Bush Administration, in advance of a much-hyped Middle East conference in September, continues to push a "West Bank first" strategy in the occupied territories that c...
Jul 19, 2007 / Ari Berman
The Virginity Mystique The Virginity Mystique
Wendy Shalit's new book pits "good girls" against "girls gone wild." But where's the middle ground?
Jul 19, 2007 / Feature / Nona Willis Aronowitz