The Vatican’s Enforcer The Vatican’s Enforcer
The Sacred College of Cardinals is supposed to be one of the world's great deliberative bodies. Yet, despite the many challenges faced by the Catholic church, the deliberations r...
Apr 19, 2005 / John Nichols
Bush’s iPod: Take Two Bush’s iPod: Take Two
After reading that New York Times article about the President's iPod, I couldn't resist putting together a Top Ten playlist for Dubya. So, in my Editor's Cut last week, I nominate...
Apr 19, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Debriefing Scalia Debriefing Scalia
An NYU law student asks a Supreme Court Justice, "Do you sodomize your wife?"
Apr 18, 2005 / The Nation
One (Especially) Sad Death in Iraq One (Especially) Sad Death in Iraq
Marla Ruzicka deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Unlike Paul Wolfowitz or George Tenet, she shouldn't get it for botching the job in Iraq. No, she ...
Apr 18, 2005 / David Corn
Progressive Catholics and the White Smoke Progressive Catholics and the White Smoke
What a progessive pope might have looked like.
Apr 18, 2005 / Feature / Patrick Mulvaney
The Papal Chase The Papal Chase
When hundreds of thousands of global justice campaigners flocked to Genoa in the summer of 2001 to protest at the G-8 summit of major industrialized nations, the found an unlikely...
Apr 17, 2005 / John Nichols
Leaving Adults Behind Leaving Adults Behind
If Bush's proposed funding cuts go through, many Americans seeking basic literacy will have nowhere to go.
Apr 15, 2005 / Feature / Alexa Rose Steinberg
Middle-Class Blues Middle-Class Blues
The Drum Major Institute grades Congress.
Apr 15, 2005 / The Editors
Sweet Victory: Maryland Stands Up To Wal-Mart Sweet Victory: Maryland Stands Up To Wal-Mart
With the federal government content to let Wal-Mart run amok,it has been left up to the states to protect workers from the retailbehemoth's excesses. This past Saturday, April 9, ...
Apr 15, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The New Environment of Foreign Aid The New Environment of Foreign Aid
Foreign aid is not dead but it seemed so last month, as the International Development Conference (a meeting of foreign aid experts that has been held in fifteen of the last twenty ...
Apr 14, 2005 / Feature / Richard Critchfield