Feingold Rejects Compromise, Pushes Exit Strategy Feingold Rejects Compromise, Pushes Exit Strategy
Fifty-seven percent of Americans say that Congress should not compromise with President Bush in the Iraq War funding fight. That's the number that, according to a new CNN poll, wa...
May 9, 2007 / John Nichols
The Scum Also Rises The Scum Also Rises
How else to explain why arrogant incompetents like Paul Wolfowitz rose to power in the Bush Administration?
May 9, 2007 / Column / Robert Scheer
What Good Reporting Has Meant in Iraq What Good Reporting Has Meant in Iraq
Patrick Cockburn has been hailed by Sidney Blumenthal in Salon as "one of the most accurate and intrepid journalists in Iraq." And that's hardly praise enough, given wha...
May 9, 2007 / TomDispatch
Men of Aahction? Men of Aahction?
Today I had lunch with Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott, SEIU president Andy Stern, and the disembodied head of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Let me explain.
May 8, 2007 / Liza Featherstone
End of Vietnam: The Shameful Truth End of Vietnam: The Shameful Truth
As the rout of Saigon showed, when it came to Vietnam our "best and the brightest" were, more accurately, the worst and the dumbest.
May 8, 2007 / The Editors
A Peaceful Mother’s Day A Peaceful Mother’s Day
Mother's Day was originally conceived to recognize the power of women to be instruments of peace.
May 8, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Robert Greenwald
Better to Be a Chimpanzee Better to Be a Chimpanzee
To qualify for charity, a homeless Austrian chimp has petitioned the courts to be granted human status. If he wins, expect a surge of humans going over to the other side.
May 8, 2007 / Barbara Ehrenreich
‘No Shame, No Blame’ ‘No Shame, No Blame’
In an elegant "Talk of the Town" piece on the subject of George Tenet's new book in the current issue of The New Yorker, George Packer levels a strong indictment against the Bush...
May 8, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Disseminate Information, Protect Democracy Disseminate Information, Protect Democracy
Unless the US Postal Service reverses its steep increases in bulk-mailing rates to favor large corporate publishers, the future of small magazines is grim.
May 8, 2007 / Teresa Stack
Lender Bender: New York’s Attorney General testifies on the student loan scandal Lender Bender: New York’s Attorney General testifies on the student loan scandal
New York's Attorney General testifies on the student loan scandal.
May 8, 2007 / The Nation