Curtains for ‘Rachel Corrie’ Curtains for ‘Rachel Corrie’
So much for freedom of speech, let alone thought. The play My Name Is Rachel Corrie, directed in London by actor Alan Rickman anddue to open in New York City in March, The play a...
Feb 27, 2006 / Gary Younge
State Parties Say: “Impeach!” State Parties Say: “Impeach!”
The decision of the Democratic Party in rural Walworth County to call for the impeachment of President Bush, which Katrina vanden Heuvel recounts on this blog, is an encouraging on...
Feb 27, 2006 / John Nichols
The Military’s Gay Porn Problem The Military’s Gay Porn Problem
February has been a very queer month for the US military. Early this month, the Defense Department admitted (in a letter to the Senate Armed Services Committee) that its TALON (Th...
Feb 27, 2006 / Richard Kim
Larry Summers Ghosts–Continued Larry Summers Ghosts–Continued
As Russian-watcher and ex-Nation blogger Matt Bivens detailed in this space last week, despite the spate of media coverage being devoted to Larry Summers' resignation as Harvard U...
Feb 27, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Wisconsin Democrats Vote to Impeach Bush Wisconsin Democrats Vote to Impeach Bush
The other day, I received a letter from Robert Burrows of Whitewater, Wisconsin. I was moved to read his description of why the Democratic Party of Walworth County, Wisconsin voted...
Feb 27, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Stem-Cell Hypocrisy Stem-Cell Hypocrisy
How serious are Republican -- and some Democratic -- politicians who go on and on about the need to restrict embryonic stem-cell research? Not very. Stem cell research, which sci...
Feb 27, 2006 / John Nichols
Bob Hagan’s Modest Proposal Bob Hagan’s Modest Proposal
Bob Hagan has for decades been one of Ohio's most progressive-minded and intellectually adventurous legislators. So it comes as no surprise that the Democratic state senator from ...
Feb 27, 2006 / John Nichols
My Dinner With Ashcroft My Dinner With Ashcroft
I spent this past weekend bunkered in with 350 movement conservatives and some of their favorite pols and strategists – from John Ashcroft to Tom Tancredo to Jim Woolsey --an...
Feb 27, 2006 / Marc Cooper
The Costs of War The Costs of War
As we approach the third anniversary of Bush's invasion of Iraq, with domestic spending being gutted, tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans being extended, and the Bush administra...
Feb 27, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Ted’s Excellent New Adventure Ted’s Excellent New Adventure
In the New York Times on Friday, Ted Koppel – now a columnist free from the strictures of ABC-Disney – lays it on the line in examining the undeniable role of oil in ou...
Feb 26, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel