Abramoff , The GOP Corruption Machine & What Dems Need to Do Abramoff , The GOP Corruption Machine & What Dems Need to Do
It didn't take Republican super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff's guilty plea to three felony counts of conspiracy, mail fraud and tax evasion to understand that the scale of corruption in...
Jan 4, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Abramoff’s Sordid World Abramoff’s Sordid World
The unfolding Jack Abramoff corruption scandal exposes the hypocrisy of the GOP "revolution," which promised to restore morality to Washington but instead sank deepinto a cesspool ...
Jan 4, 2006 / Column / Robert Scheer
Jack Abramoff and the Politics of 2006 Jack Abramoff and the Politics of 2006
By any serious definition of the word, Republican super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff is a rat. His decision to enter guilty pleas Tuesday to three felony counts of defrauding his own cl...
Jan 3, 2006 / John Nichols
Look to The Onion for Accurate War Coverage Look to The Onion for Accurate War Coverage
Sometimes, only The Onion gets it right. The satirical weekly, which does for print journalism what Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" does for cable news, finished off 2005 with ...
Jan 2, 2006 / John Nichols
New York’s Real Transit Crisis New York’s Real Transit Crisis
New York City's first transit strike in a quarter-century resulted in an agreement that both the union leadership and the MTA insist is the greatest contract ever--but that the uni...
Dec 30, 2005 / Feature / Robert Fitch
A Year of Sweet Victories A Year of Sweet Victories
In the dark days after the election of 2004, the mainstream media was touting the making of a permanent rightward shift, and the progressive community was deeply deflated. It was...
Dec 30, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Language of the Heart Language of the Heart
We need to learn a new language of peace and love that we can speak, even shout, to our leaders who only understand the language of greed and murder.
Dec 29, 2005 / Cindy Sheehan
Dr. Germ and Mrs. Anthrax Set Free Dr. Germ and Mrs. Anthrax Set Free
Why is it not bigger news that these infamous Iraqi scientists have been quietly released from imprisonment in Iraq without any charges being brought by their US captors?
Dec 28, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer
The Most Valuable Progressives of 2005 The Most Valuable Progressives of 2005
It is hard to complain about a year that began with George Bush bragging about spending the "political capital" he felt he had earned with his dubious reelection and ended with th...
Dec 28, 2005 / John Nichols
The I-Word is Gaining Ground–UPDATED The I-Word is Gaining Ground–UPDATED
In 1998, House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, currently under indictment on corruption charges, proclaimed: "This nation sits at a crossroads. One direction points to the higher road of...
Dec 27, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel