The President Is Not Smiling The President Is Not Smiling
Card is out, Bolten in. The Senate is stuck on immigration. And every day brings more bad news. Take care of this, will you, Josh?
Mar 28, 2006 / Feature / William Greider
Avian Flu Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Avian Flu Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Large factory farms, not migratory birds, are now seen as breeding grounds for the avian flu virus. Donald Rumsfeld is getting rich off his investment in Tamiflu. Can this pandemic...
Mar 28, 2006 / Feature / Nicholas von Hoffman
The Dot-Degree Boom The Dot-Degree Boom
Thanks to aggressive recruiting tactics and a complaisant Congress, online enrollments at the University of Phoenix and its spinoff, Axia College, are soaring. So are student debt ...
Mar 28, 2006 / Feature / Garrett Ordower
The Soon-to-be-Forgotten Andrew Card The Soon-to-be-Forgotten Andrew Card
After Karen Hughes stepped down as a counselor to the president in 2002, White House chief of staff Andy Card, in a rare moment of candor, told Esquire: "She's leaving when the pr...
Mar 28, 2006 / John Nichols
Card Folds, and Bush Draws to the Inside Card Folds, and Bush Draws to the Inside
The White House doesn't seem to understand the meaning of the term "fresh blood." It usually refers to new blood that is introduced into an anemic entity--n...
Mar 28, 2006 / David Corn
So Much for Straight Talk So Much for Straight Talk
So much for "straight talk." If you needed any more proof that the maverick John McCain will run as the ultimate insider come 2008, scroll down. McCain, February 28, 200...
Mar 28, 2006 / Ari Berman
Breakthrough on Immigration Reform Breakthrough on Immigration Reform
As immigrant protests continued to ripple through the country on Monday--22,000 students walking out of classes just in LA County--the Republican-dominated Senate Judiciary Committ...
Mar 28, 2006 / Adam Howard
I for Infantalization I for Infantalization
You would think that V for Vendetta, a movie jam-packed with post-9/11 themes, deserved a serious response. Instead, some of the most prominent media outlets have chosen to insult ...
Mar 27, 2006 / Adam Howard
Science Fact or Science Fiction? Science Fact or Science Fiction?
Climate change is real, and its impact is potentially devastating to our way of life. So why do the news media have such a hard time telling the straight story?
Mar 27, 2006 / Feature / Bryan Farrell
A New Downing Street Memo A New Downing Street Memo
The British government memo on Iraq, reported in today's New York Times, is perhaps even more important than the Downing Street memo. The five-page memo--of a January 31, 2003 Ova...
Mar 27, 2006 / Adam Howard