Deconstructing the Benchmarks Deconstructing the Benchmarks
Last week the Bush Administration announced that the Iraqi government had made "satisfactory" progress on just 8 of the 18 benchmarks the Administration and Congress set ...
Jul 17, 2007 / Ari Berman
The Surgeon General’s Commissars The Surgeon General’s Commissars
The testimony of three former Surgeons General offers more proof of how the Bush Administration's corps of inept political operatives subverts our system of checks and balances.
Jul 17, 2007 / Stanley I. Kutler
The Case to Impeach the President The Case to Impeach the President
The Nation's John Nichols discusses the case for impeaching President Bush with conservative constitutional scholar Bruce Fein, in this excerpt from the July 13 edition of Bill Moy...
Jul 17, 2007 / Press Room
Harry Reid Finally Starts to Fight Smart Harry Reid Finally Starts to Fight Smart
Harry Reid is finally coming to the realization reached months ago by the American people: That Democrats in Congress have been played for suckers by the Bush White House and its ...
Jul 17, 2007 / John Nichols
Unjust Execution Delayed Unjust Execution Delayed
Guest post by Liliana Segura. Liliana is a member of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty and has written on the death penalty for The Nation and other publications. UPDATE: This...
Jul 16, 2007 / Ari Berman
Argentina: Where Jobless Run Factories Argentina: Where Jobless Run Factories
Almost entirely under the media radar, unemployed workers here are taking over bankrupt businesses and reopening them under democratic management.
Jul 16, 2007 / Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis
Why Milk Costs More Than Gas Why Milk Costs More Than Gas
America's kids will get less calcium because of our unabated appetite for gas-guzzling cars--and the wrongheaded belief that ethanol is the answer.
Jul 16, 2007 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
The Swift-boating of Mitt Romney The Swift-boating of Mitt Romney
Christian conservatives play the porn card in an attempt to discredit Mitt Romney and advance the cause of Fred Thompson.
Jul 16, 2007 / Feature / Max Blumenthal
Clinton and Obama Call to End Tax Breaks for Hedge Funders Clinton and Obama Call to End Tax Breaks for Hedge Funders
Last Thursday, I pointed out that among the leading Presidential candidates only John Edwards had called for ending glaringly unfair tax breaks and loopholes for billionaire hedge...
Jul 16, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Way Out: The Union of Iraqi States A Way Out: The Union of Iraqi States
A managed partition of Iraq into a European-style union of three politically independent but economically linked states is the best scenario to reduce violence and allow a drawdown...
Jul 14, 2007 / Feature / Pauline H. Baker