Messing With DeLay Messing With DeLay
Well, maybe you can mess with Texas. Scandal-plagued former House Minority Leader Tom DeLay, whose career in Congress imploded after he was indicted for scheming to warp homestate ...
Mar 8, 2006 / Adam Howard
Vermont Towns Vote to Impeach — UPDATED Vermont Towns Vote to Impeach — UPDATED
A single Vermont community's call for the impeachment of President Bush turned into a chorus Tuesday night, with town meetings across southern Vermont echoing the demand that Cong...
Mar 8, 2006 / John Nichols
Looking for Votes in All The Wrong Places (continued) Looking for Votes in All The Wrong Places (continued)
Two weeks after I wrote about the North Carolina Republican Party's dubious effort to collect church membership directories, the IRS issued a report revealing that 37 of 47 churche...
Mar 7, 2006 / Adam Howard
“America Could Lose Its Army in Iraq” “America Could Lose Its Army in Iraq”
Imagine this scenario, as described last week in Washington by defense expert and former Senator Gary Hart. Overnight, Iraq has descended into a full-scale civil war. Shiites and ...
Mar 7, 2006 / Ari Berman
What, Then, From Newfane? What, Then, From Newfane?
It is appropriate indeed that the first time voters will be offered an opportunity to weigh in on the question of whether to impeach President George W. Bush for high crimes and m...
Mar 7, 2006 / John Nichols
Macho, Macho Militarism Macho, Macho Militarism
On this year's International Women's Day, antiwar feminists take note of how our society has become increasingly militarized as a cult of masculinity has tightened its grip on Amer...
Mar 7, 2006 / Feature / Cynthia Enloe
Needed: A New Direction for US-Russian Relations Needed: A New Direction for US-Russian Relations
This past Sunday, on Meet the Press, would-be-Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards and one-time-Republican presidential candidate Jack Kemp, used the fiftieth anniversar...
Mar 7, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Specter’s Spectre Specter’s Spectre
For the first time in two decades, the U.S. Senate on Wednesday begins debate on the way overdue issue of comprehensive immigration reform. The Senate Judiciary Committee now has u...
Mar 7, 2006 / Adam Howard
As South Dakota Goes… As South Dakota Goes…
When South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds signed legislation that effectively bans abortion in his state, the director of the militantly anti-choice Christian Defense Coalition announ...
Mar 7, 2006 / Adam Howard
Bad Day in the Bad Lands Bad Day in the Bad Lands
South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds has signed the state abortion ban, which bars all abortions without exception except to preserve the life of the mother. Doctors who violate the l...
Mar 6, 2006 / Adam Howard