Time to Rumble Time to Rumble
According to the Washington Post, British Petroleum was told by employees that the company was not sufficiently monitoring and repairing its Alaskan Prudhoe Bay pipeline in Februa...
Aug 11, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Other Lamont The Other Lamont
The Nation's been going since 1865. But, if it hadn't been for Hammond Lamont, great-great uncle ofConnecticut Democratic senatorial hopeful Ned Lamont, we might be telling adiff...
Aug 7, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sticky Situations with Tony Blair Sticky Situations with Tony Blair
Reports are that Rupert Murdoch plans to offer Tony Blair a prominent position in his media empire when Bush's poodle steps down as prime minister or Gordon Brown finally stages a...
Aug 2, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Political Blackmail Political Blackmail
"Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people…." Thus spok...
Jul 31, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
101 People Who Are Really Screwing America 101 People Who Are Really Screwing America
For everyone who has been waiting for the response to Bernard Goldberg's awful 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America, Nationbooks has the answer--101 People Who Are Really Screwi...
Jul 26, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Madness of King George The Madness of King George
Today, a bipartisan American Bar Association task force released its report challenging George Bush's flagrant misuse of signing statements to circumvent the constitutional separa...
Jul 25, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A New Openness A New Openness
"It has to be said: there has been nothing in our time like the Bush Administration's obsession with secrecy….It's an old story: the greater the secrecy, the deeper the corrupti...
Jul 24, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Neonuts Neonuts
For them, Afghanistan and Iraq will not suffice. They want to take out Syria and Iran, and speed full steam ahead towards World Wars III and IV. The Weekly Standard asks simply,...
Jul 20, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Brothers in Arms Brothers in Arms
There's been much chatter about President Bush's earthy open-mic discussion of the Middle East crises with Tony Blair. But it was the joint news conference at the G8 summit betwee...
Jul 19, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Don’t Forget the Bloodletting in Iraq Don’t Forget the Bloodletting in Iraq
With the Middle East on the cusp of war, President Bush's foreign policy for the area--remaking the region through invasion and occupation--is now effectively buried under the rub...
Jul 17, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel