How Not to Withdraw from Iraq: The Democrats’ Plan How Not to Withdraw from Iraq: The Democrats’ Plan
Before you imagine that the Democrats' plan, just passed by Congress, would actually get U.S. troops out of Iraq, read the fine print. Let's be clear about what it is -- when i...
Apr 30, 2007 / The Nation
Spell It Out: “I-M-P-E-A-C-H!” Spell It Out: “I-M-P-E-A-C-H!”
In January, Brooklyn's Jacob Park made an audacious proposal to the loose coalition of groups that has been campaigning to impeach President Bush and Vice President Cheney. They ...
Apr 28, 2007 / John Nichols
Twelve Steps to Cutting Poverty in Half Twelve Steps to Cutting Poverty in Half
Last Wednesday, at the Center for American Progress (CAP) in Washington, the CAP Task Force on Poverty released the results of fourteen months of work in its report, From Poverty...
Apr 28, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Future of the Party? The Future of the Party?
Did the recent College Democrats of New York State Convention augur a new day for the Democratic Party?
Apr 27, 2007 / Feature / Habiba Alcindor
The Democrats’ Depressing Debate The Democrats’ Depressing Debate
The candidates ignored race, class and religion, and fumbled the key question of how to get out of Iraq.
In New Book, Tenet Bashes Cheney Belatedly In New Book, Tenet Bashes Cheney Belatedly
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Should Americans have to pay to get the truth about how their government failed them?
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Apr 27, 2007 / David Corn
Reality Check Reality Check
Want a reality check on the implications of the Supreme Court verdict in Gonzales v. Carhart? Throwing out thirty years of legal precedent, the court declared that Congress has an...
Apr 27, 2007 / The Nation
Yeltsin–Father of Democracy? Yeltsin–Father of Democracy?
Boris Yeltsin, who died on April 23, was a towering figure in Russian political history. But was he, as so many US obituaries and editorials have described him, the "Father of Rus...
Apr 27, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Football and Nikki Giovanni at Virginia Tech Football and Nikki Giovanni at Virginia Tech
Tragedy uncovers the diverse world of a school that had been known only for football.
Apr 26, 2007 / Column / Dave Zirin
Enough Mommy Wars and Manifestos Enough Mommy Wars and Manifestos
I'm not going to hold forth on Leslie Bennetts' new book, The Feminine Mistake, because I haven't read it (that hasn't stopped plenty of others in the blogosphere from weighing in...
Apr 26, 2007 / The Nation