Impeachment Is Coming? Impeachment Is Coming?

Has Paul Weyrich, a founding father of the modern conservative movement, been reading The Nation? Via TAPPED, I see that Weyrich is ringing alarm bells over the possibility of Dem...

Feb 15, 2006 / Ari Berman

Shoot First, Blame Others Later Shoot First, Blame Others Later

Time and again, all we've asked of our government is simple honesty. In the war with Iraq, we wanted an honest assessment of the situation. According to the top CIA Middle East ana...

Feb 15, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Cheney, “A Beer or Two” and a Gun — UPDATED Cheney, “A Beer or Two” and a Gun — UPDATED

Vice President Dick Cheney, who was forced to leave Yale University because his penchant for late-night beer drinking exceeded his devotion to his studies, and who is one of the s...

Feb 15, 2006 / John Nichols

In Your Dreams, Condi In Your Dreams, Condi

Condoleezza Rice's myopic optimism mirrors that of the delusional Dick Cheney: Witness her refusal to be alarmed by rise of Moqtada al Sadr.

Feb 15, 2006 / Column / Robert Scheer

Freezing Their Assets Freezing Their Assets

Among the superrich, there's a growing desire to freeze themselves and their bank accounts in hopes of rising again. Talk about Groundhog Day.

Feb 14, 2006 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman

V-Day or P-Day? V-Day or P-Day?

Today is Valentine's Day, which on campus means V-Day--over 1,000 productions of The Vagina Monologues will be taking place across the nation to raise funds for battered women's sh...

Feb 14, 2006 / Katha Pollitt

Keeping it Real Keeping it Real

The New York Times has an interesting story on street fiction, the ever-rising genre of "urban" (read: Black) fiction that is moving from stalls on Brooklyn's Fulton Street to Ma...

Feb 14, 2006 / The Nation

An Analysis of Sunday Talk Shows An Analysis of Sunday Talk Shows

In my post on Sunday, How The Mainstream Media Is Missing What's Mainstream, I referred to a forthcoming Media Matters report on skewing to the Right on our Sunday talk shows. The ...

Feb 14, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Real Men Don’t Hide Behind Scott McClellan Real Men Don’t Hide Behind Scott McClellan

THIS JUST IN: Harry Whittington suffered a minor heart attack on Tuesday morning due to bird shot from Cheney's gun that migrated into his heart. Click <...