Friends Don’t Let Friends Ruin Lebanon Friends Don’t Let Friends Ruin Lebanon
Congressional "Friends of Israel" are busy making noises about the "need" for the United States to provide that Middle Eastern land with full support as it assaults its neighbors....
Jul 16, 2006 / John Nichols
Ditherer-In-Chief Ditherer-In-Chief
In your lifetime, has the US ever exercised less global leadership? The Middle East is burning. Iraq is disintegrating. Afghanistan is collapsing. North Korea is escalating. Iran...
Jul 16, 2006 / The Nation
GOP’s Got a Problem With Voting Rights GOP’s Got a Problem With Voting Rights
For years, leaders of the Republican Party and their amen corner in the media has been demanding to know why African-American voters so consistently support the Democratic Party. ...
Jul 15, 2006 / The Nation
Boehner’s Big Bucks Boehner’s Big Bucks
After running as a so-called "reformer" in the race to replace Tom DeLay as House Majority Leader, Ohio Rep. John Boehner admitted in his first major TV interview, "I've got a ver...
Jul 15, 2006 / The Nation
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: Guidepost or Relic? Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: Guidepost or Relic?
As the Bush Administration continues to exercise an inordinate amount of power, will the Supreme Court's Hamdan v. Rumsfeld ruling become a guidepost for future government or a las...
From Russia, With Hypocrisy From Russia, With Hypocrisy
As Bush and Putin meet in St. Petersburg for the G-8 summit, there's a lot of talk in the US media about Russia's backsliding on democracy. Of course, Russia isn't on a path to de...
Jul 14, 2006 / The Nation
Baseball Begins to Listen to Sweatshop Foes Baseball Begins to Listen to Sweatshop Foes
After pressure from the local newspaper and the City Council questioning the use of sweatshop labor to create Pittsburgh Pirates regalia, Major League Baseball seems willing to lis...
Jul 14, 2006 / Column / Dave Zirin and Derek Tyner
Too High a Price Too High a Price
The spreading violence in Lebanon and Gaza demonstrate that the collective punishment of the Palestinian and Lebanese people is not only inhumane and should be condemned but also l...
Jul 14, 2006 / The Editors
Killing and Dying in the Nation’s Capital Killing and Dying in the Nation’s Capital
If I do well in school can I jump over jail?If I pray every night can I jump over this hell?Will the preacher say a special prayer?Will the social workers really care?It doesn't ...
Jul 14, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Dan Rather Should Stick to His Story Dan Rather Should Stick to His Story
The other night Dan Rather was back in center ring. In an hour long interview with CNN's Larry King. Rather spoke with quiet fury about the suits at CBS who treated him, a 44-year...
Jul 14, 2006 / The Nation