What Bush Has Wrought What Bush Has Wrought
We are now led by a false warrior who acts the simpleton, while playing to his version of what Middle America wants. To stop the madness, on November 7 voters must soundly repudiat...
Nov 1, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Robert Scheer
GOP Throws All Financial Support Behind One Candidate GOP Throws All Financial Support Behind One Candidate
The National Republican Congressional Committee allocates its remaining $256 million cash-on-hand to an Arizona incumbent in the hopes of retaining at least one House seat.
Nov 1, 2006 / The Nation
College Presidents High on the Hog College Presidents High on the Hog
College presidents are living in baronial splendor, some with salaries, benefits and perks of $1 million or more. And you wonder why the cost of tuition is so high?
Oct 31, 2006 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
A New ‘Moyers for President’ Twist A New ‘Moyers for President’ Twist
Several months ago, Molly Ivins and I wrote columns suggesting that Bill Moyers should consider seeking the presidency in 2008 [Molly] and that, if he did, he should mount a serio...
Oct 31, 2006 / The Nation
Moral Depravity Week Moral Depravity Week
I never pegged Senator George Allen as much of a reader. Nor, after his sister's memoir, did I imagine he spent much time worrying about the mistreatment of women. But last week h...
Oct 31, 2006 / The Nation
Osama’s Party Osama’s Party
Who's trying to use the war in Iraq for political gain, the Bush Administration or the insurgents? "It's my belief that they're very sensitive of the fact that we have got an ele...
Oct 31, 2006 / The Nation
Outsourcing Al Gore Outsourcing Al Gore
Do you get the feeling that every project the United States might once have undertaken is now either outsourced or simply handed over to others elsewhere on the planet? GM and Fo...
Oct 31, 2006 / The Nation
The Quiet Revolution The Quiet Revolution
Over the past quarter century, an increasingly influential legal movement on the far right has been working stealthily to impose a narrow social agenda on the broader body politic...
Oct 31, 2006 / Peter Rothberg
Whose Morality? Whose Morality?
A version of this post appeared in The Guardian's Comment is Free blog. In 2004, the American news media made much of the finding that a fifth of voters picked "moral values" as ...
Oct 31, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Duncan Hunter Mulls a Run for President Duncan Hunter Mulls a Run for President
Who needs The Onion when you can find this report on the AP wire? (Hunter is Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.) Washington (AP) -- California congressman Duncan Hu...
Oct 30, 2006 / The Nation