A Distinct Lack of Intelligence A Distinct Lack of Intelligence
If George W. Bush took the latest National Intelligence Estimate seriously, he would end the ineffectual "war on terror" model and treat terrorism as a pathology to be clinically ...
Sep 26, 2006 / Column / Robert Scheer
‘You Did Your Nice Little Conservative Hit Job On Me’ ‘You Did Your Nice Little Conservative Hit Job On Me’
Regular readers of this column will know that it maintains no great affection for former President Bill Clinton. A Democratic Leadership Council stalwart, Clinton got elected pres...
Sep 26, 2006 / John Nichols
Iranian Science Teachers May Be Enriching Students Iranian Science Teachers May Be Enriching Students
A Pentagon report raises worries that Iran has several facilities for the enriching of mass quantities of high-grade students.
Sep 26, 2006 / The Nation
Torture is a Moral Issue Torture is a Moral Issue
Will we be a nation that abides by our own Constitution and upholds international law? Or will we become a nation that punishes those who follow the orders while exonerating those...
Sep 26, 2006 / The Nation
All the News Our Tiny Minds Can Manage All the News Our Tiny Minds Can Manage
For a little thought experiment, go to the website of Newsweek'sinternationaledition. There, running down the left side of the page, are threecovers, all the same, for the Europe...
Sep 25, 2006 / The Nation
No Fox Trot No Fox Trot
On Fox News this Sunday, President Bill Clinton offered Democrats a timely lesson in defeating tired Rovian election-year ploys when Chris Wallace asked him, "Why didn't you do mo...
Sep 25, 2006 / The Nation
Rumsfeld: Iraqis Now Capable of Conducting War Without US Assistance Rumsfeld: Iraqis Now Capable of Conducting War Without US Assistance
The Defense Secretary says escalating violence in Iraq shows the Iraqi population is capable of staying the course without outside military aid.
Sep 25, 2006 / The Nation
Release the NIE on Iraq and Terrorism! Release the NIE on Iraq and Terrorism!
Reality intrudes again. President Bush and his allies keep insisting that the invasion of Iraq was essential to winning the fight against anti-American Isla...
Sep 25, 2006 / David Corn
The Devil and Mr. Bush The Devil and Mr. Bush
Love him, hate him, fear him, revere him, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is an elected world leader whose fiery criticisms of US foreign policy can't simply be ignored or ridic...
Sep 25, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Rendition Chic Rendition Chic
In a recent Washington Post piece on the case of Maher Arar ("Canadian Was Falsely Accused, Panel Says"), reporter Doug Struck noted that since September 11, 2001, an estimated 3,...
Sep 24, 2006 / The Nation