Not Silent Anymore Not Silent Anymore
In 2000, the Surgeon General released a report describing "the silent epidemic of oral diseases" affecting mainly the poor due to lack of access to dental care. Two weeks ago, th...
Mar 11, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Honoring Our Rock and Roll Tom Paine Honoring Our Rock and Roll Tom Paine
"O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!" -- Tom Paine "I can relate to Thomas Paine. When he wrote Common Sense, he was ...
Mar 11, 2007 / John Nichols
George McGovern to Cheney: Resign George McGovern to Cheney: Resign
George McGovern has a word for Vice President Dick Cheney: "Resign." Responding to Tuesday's conviction of Cheney's former chief-of-staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, on charges of...
Mar 10, 2007 / John Nichols
The Turkish Myth The Turkish Myth
Everybody is familiar with the wave of misinformation, misinterpretation, and actual falsification which swept the Allied countries during the recent World War.
Mar 9, 2007 / Feature / Arthur Moss and Florence Gilliam
Alt Spring Break Alt Spring Break
If you're a high school or college student, you can use your spring break to become a part of the next generation of human rights leaders. Taking place in Austin, Texas from Mar...
Mar 9, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Giving DC a Vote Giving DC a Vote
Imagine you lived in the most powerful city in the world. Imagine elected officials from all across the country came there to debate the nation's future. Imagine you paid taxes an...
Mar 9, 2007 / The Nation
Bush’s Brush with Latin America’s Drug Lords Bush’s Brush with Latin America’s Drug Lords
Bush needs to acknowledge how little Colombia and Guatemala are doing to combat cocaine trafficking to the United States.
Mar 9, 2007 / Feature / Frank Smyth
Wasting Our Soldiers’ Lives Wasting Our Soldiers’ Lives
We know that, since the moment President Bush stood under the "Mission Accomplished" banner on the USS Abraham Lincoln in early May 2003 and declared "major combat operations in I...
Mar 9, 2007 / The Nation
Paradoxes of the US-Iranian Dance Paradoxes of the US-Iranian Dance
One week ago today we were sitting in the lobby of our hotel in Amman,Jordan, talking with the very smart and well-informed Middle Eastanalyst Joost Hiltermann about the interacti...
Mar 9, 2007 / The Nation
Waxman Sets Hearings on CIA Leak Case Waxman Sets Hearings on CIA Leak Case
Vice President Dick Cheney may have avoided serious law enforcement scrutiny in regard to his office's efforts to discredit and harm the man who exposed the administration's manip...
Mar 9, 2007 / The Nation