Circling the Square Circling the Square
The day before Barack Obama announced his candidacy for president in Springfield, I was having breakfast in Chicago with my friend Paul Smith. Paul's what might be called an Obama...
Feb 12, 2007 / The Nation
Fox News Goes Corporate Fox News Goes Corporate
It's official: Rupert Murdoch is launching a new business channel that will be "more business friendly" than its competitors, namely CNBC. As if CNBC (owned by General Electric) ...
Feb 11, 2007 / The Nation
Drew Gilpin Faust: Why We Love War Drew Gilpin Faust: Why We Love War
Drew Faust, the historian who has been named Harvard's first female president, has been praised for her "people skills," but she's also done brilliant intellectual work on a cruci...
Feb 10, 2007 / The Nation
Obama’s In, Predictably Obama’s In, Predictably
The only thing about the launch of Barack Obama's presidential candidacy that wasn't meticulously stage managed was the weather. Outside the old statehouse in downtown Springfield...
Feb 10, 2007 / John Nichols
Choice time: Unravel Al Qaeda or Fight Iran? Choice time: Unravel Al Qaeda or Fight Iran?
So just how firmly do the Bushists want to pursue the campaign to unravel Al-Qaeda? In today's WaPo, Dafna Linzer has a story, attributed largely to unnamed but concerned adminis...
Feb 10, 2007 / The Nation
Will the Watada Mistrial Spark an End to the War? Will the Watada Mistrial Spark an End to the War?
Now that Lieut. Ehren Watada's court-martial has ended in mistrial, his case could focus America's attention on how we came to fight an illegal war and what we must do to end it.
Feb 9, 2007 / Feature / Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith
The Spy Who Loved Me The Spy Who Loved Me
Reviews of The Lives of Others and Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams.
Feb 9, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Kill the Death Penalty Kill the Death Penalty
The time has come for the US to join the rest of civilized nations and abolish capital punishment.
Feb 9, 2007 / Sunil Dutta
Wall Street Whining Wall Street Whining
In response to the massive loss of unionzed, relatively well-paid manufacturing jobs in the US, the barons of Wall Street (Bob Rubin, et al) generally respond with thinly veiled c...
Feb 9, 2007 / The Nation
Pelosi, Planes and Partisan Propaganda Pelosi, Planes and Partisan Propaganda
Republican apologists for the Bush administration's failed fight in Iraq and their amen corner in the media have been looking for something, anything, to distract the American pub...
Feb 9, 2007 / John Nichols