Feingold’s Call for Checks and Balances Feingold’s Call for Checks and Balances
Americans ought be listening to Russ Feingold in these defining days for the Republic, because what the Democratic senator from Wisconsin is saying goes to the heart of the questio...
Feb 12, 2006 / John Nichols
Support Net Neutrality Support Net Neutrality
Think the Internet will always be the freewheeling, democratic information superhighway you've grown to rely on? Well, think again. Corporate media giants are working hard behind ...
Feb 10, 2006 / Peter Rothberg
Dick Cheney Is Not Above the Law Dick Cheney Is Not Above the Law
Twenty-two members of the House have now signed on as co-sponors of the call by Representative John Conyers, D-Michigan, to establish a select committee of the Congress to investi...
Feb 10, 2006 / John Nichols
Spin to the Right Spin to the Right
Coretta Scott King's funeral should have been a paean to liberal values. Instead, talking heads nattered over the etiquette of speaking truth to power.
Feb 10, 2006 / Feature / Mark Hatch-Miller
Band of Brothers–Brother! Band of Brothers–Brother!
Following up on Ari's post about the Band of Brothers, those military veterans running for Congress as Democrats. The theory is that as former soldiers they will be immunized ag...
Feb 10, 2006 / Katha Pollitt
Rove Comes Calling Rove Comes Calling
Is the White House coming begging to Senate Minority Leader HarryReid? "Karl Rove's back and there's no doubt about that," Reid remarkedat a one-hour on-the-recor...
Feb 10, 2006 / Ari Berman
Our Own ‘Downing Street Memo’? Our Own ‘Downing Street Memo’?
For those who had any doubts that the Bush Administration manipulatedintelligence to take us into a disastrous, unprovoked and unnecessarywar, Walter Pincus's &nbs...
Feb 10, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sweet Victories: Reader Roundup Sweet Victories: Reader Roundup
Co-written by Sam Graham-Felsen. This week, we present victories that have been submitted by ourreaders. We read every submission and we encourage readers to keepthem coming (sub...
Feb 10, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Elementary, Pat, Elementary Elementary, Pat, Elementary
The other night, Pat Buchanan said on Scarborough Country's segment about "The Politics of Impeachment" that my views on the subject are irrelevant. I suggest Pat check out a li...
Feb 10, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Congress Stirs to Rein in the President Congress Stirs to Rein in the President
In the wake of Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on warrantless spying, bipartisan efforts to rein in the Bush Administration's exercise of executive power are gaining momentum.
Feb 10, 2006 / Feature / Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith