Senate Takes on Prewar WMD Controversy–Sort of Senate Takes on Prewar WMD Controversy–Sort of
Representative Walter Jones was out of place when he sat down at the dais in a committee room in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Monday. He had come t...
Jun 26, 2006 / David Corn
Bush and the Ten Commandments Bush and the Ten Commandments
No President in living memory is as overtly religious as George W. Bush. But just how well have the President and his henchmen kept the commandments?
Jun 26, 2006 / Brooke Allen and Patrick Doyle
Supreme Court v Democracy Supreme Court v Democracy
The Washington Post has a riveting article today on the death of legislative reform. The House and Senate haven't even tried to reconcile the sham lobbying "reform" bill approved ...
Jun 26, 2006 / The Nation
Lieutenant Watada’s War Against the War Lieutenant Watada’s War Against the War
In a remarkable, media-savvy protest, First Lieut. Ehren Watada has refused orders to go to Iraq, claiming the war and the occupation violate the Constitution, international law an...
Jun 26, 2006 / Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith
“A Conspiracy Against the Public” “A Conspiracy Against the Public”
"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public..." wrote Adam Smith in 1776. Four n...
Jun 26, 2006 / The Nation
Blind Loyalty Blind Loyalty
I returned from traveling over the weekend to find Richard's Coulter-esque attack on my credibility. Actually, it was quite civil. Except for the line about "pom-poms." For the re...
Jun 26, 2006 / The Nation
Say Goodbye to Bolton Say Goodbye to Bolton
Selection of a new UN Secretary General is too important to be engineered by the whims and prejudices of John Bolton. It's time for saner voices in the Administration to tell the U...
Jun 26, 2006 / Feature / Ian Williams
The Plot Against America The Plot Against America
John Updike's Terrorist rips its plot from the headlines. But the book's Irish-Egyptian protagonist is paper-thin, and its jihad-lit plot remains stubbornly inanimate, devoid of pa...
Jun 26, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Shainin
Henry Paulson’s Treasury Henry Paulson’s Treasury
Goldman Sachs chairman and CEO Henry Paulson faces ethical, political and economic challenges if confirmed as Bush's latest Treasury Secretary.
Jun 26, 2006 / Feature / Nomi Prins
Rumsfeld Must Go Rumsfeld Must Go
Amid the Generals Revolt against Rumsfeld; union officials representing 200,000 civilian defense workers calling for his resignation; and scores of Democrats as well as a good num...
Jun 26, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel