Cheney’s Oily Interests Cheney’s Oily Interests
Wondering why Vice-President Dick Cheney recently played footsie with Kazakhstan's autocratic leader--an oil-rich president with an awful human rights record whose recent re-elect...
May 16, 2006 / The Nation
FBI Said to Seek Phone Records of Reporters FBI Said to Seek Phone Records of Reporters
On an evening when every politician in the Washington was trooping in front of the television cameras to add their commentary to the slurry of blather that is the immigration "deb...
May 16, 2006 / John Nichols
Heckuva Job, Dubya Heckuva Job, Dubya
Let's get a couple of things straight about the immigration speech President George W. Bush unreeled Monday night from the Oval Office.His address had nothing to do with actual bo...
May 15, 2006 / The Nation
Asking Rove One Question Asking Rove One Question
I knew what not to ask Karl Rove: Are you about to be indicted in the CIA leak case?
His answer would be predictable: My lawyer has a...
May 15, 2006 / David Corn
Crybaby Conservatives Crybaby Conservatives
As George W. Bush's poll numbers plummet, influential conservatives have diagnosed the cause of his misery: he's not conservative enough. Bush is just a softy moderate masqueradi...
May 15, 2006 / The Nation
This Bud’s Not for the World Cup This Bud’s Not for the World Cup
Soccer fans in Germany struck a blow against US corporate blandness by turning up their noses at the notion that Budweiser is the official beer of the games.
May 15, 2006 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
Kaiser Kidney Fiasco Part II Kaiser Kidney Fiasco Part II
Last week I wrote about the Los Angeles Times smart piece of investigative journalism on Kaiser Permanente's troubled kidney transplant program in California. As a result of th...
May 15, 2006 / The Nation
Foucault on The West Wing Foucault on The West Wing
Illegal wire-tapping, millions of civilian telephone records turned over to the NSA, National Guard troops "temporarily" deployed on the Mexican border, "extraordinary rendition" ...
May 15, 2006 / The Nation
Prime Time Bush Bull Prime Time Bush Bull
What will Bush really mean by sending "troops to the border" as anticipated in his Monday night speech on immigration. Probably a lot less than what it is implied as I explain he...
May 15, 2006 / The Nation
Reconstruction Watch Part 6 Reconstruction Watch Part 6
A non-profit company in El Paso -- The National Center for Employment of the Disabled (NCED) -- was raided last week by 70 federal agents investigating whether it violated the ter...
May 14, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel