“The Long War”? “The Long War”?
So, now, the Bush Administration has given an official name to the war on terrorism. "Long War." Who knows if this term will stick? Last August, Bush reached for his dict...
Feb 3, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Boehner in the Henhouse A Boehner in the Henhouse
Newly-selected House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, is getting some remarkably good press, considering his remarkably sordid political pedigree. ABC News referred to the g...
Feb 3, 2006 / John Nichols
Your New House Majority Leader Your New House Majority Leader
Rep. John Boehner, the Congressman of K Street, Sallie Mae, big tobacco and Jack Abramoff.
In other words, a fitting heir to Tom DeLay.
Feb 2, 2006 / Ari Berman
A Real Alternative State of the Union A Real Alternative State of the Union
The antidote to President Bush's vapid and unrealistic repetition of increasingly dangerous delusions about everything from the continued occupation of Iraq to warrantless wiretapp...
Feb 2, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Letters Letters
FRA ANGELICO: NOT A BASEBALL
New York City
Feb 2, 2006 / Arthur C. Danto and Our Readers
Coretta Scott King v. George Walker Bush Coretta Scott King v. George Walker Bush
President Bush may have tried to claim a little bit of the legacy of Coretta Scott King with a warm and generous reference to her passing at the opening of his State of the Union a...
Feb 2, 2006 / John Nichols
The Facts The Facts
In Arthur & George, Julian Barnes mixes fact and fiction, linking Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with a wrongfully convicted Victorian author.
Feb 2, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Terry Eagleton
The Race to War The Race to War
Lost Battalions tells the story of two US Army regiments of the American Expeditionary Force, the struggle to buy citizenship through the self-sacrifice of war.
Feb 2, 2006 / Books & the Arts / David Levering Lewis
The JFK Lawyers’ Conspiracy The JFK Lawyers’ Conspiracy
Forty-two years later, assassination buffs continue to attack the validity of the Warren Report.
Feb 2, 2006 / Feature / Max Holland