Connecting the Dots Connecting the Dots
Over at TAPPED, Ezra Klein proposes the following maxim as a means of understanding the Bush administration: "Bush's Razor: Given a possible universe of explanations for a particu...
Mar 14, 2007 / The Nation
Hubris in High Places Hubris in High Places
The scandal action in Washington is intense, almost too much to properly savor. That squirrely little right-winger at the Justice Department who was arranging a mass execution fo...
Mar 14, 2007 / The Nation
Obama: Palestinians Matter, Too Obama: Palestinians Matter, Too
Barack Obama did the unthinkable recently: he had the audacity to mention the Palestinians. "Nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people," Obama told voters in Iowa on S...
Mar 14, 2007 / The Nation
AIPAC Disses Pelosi AIPAC Disses Pelosi
House Minority Leader John Boehner got a standing ovation when he voiced his continued support for the war in Iraq at AIPAC's annual conference today. When his counterpart, Speake...
Mar 13, 2007 / The Nation
Gonzalez’s Big Mistake Gonzalez’s Big Mistake
What's Alberto Gonzalez's biggest mistake? Cast your vote in the Nation Poll. House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers wants White House political czar Karl Rove to testif...
Mar 13, 2007 / The Nation
The AIPAC Caucus The AIPAC Caucus
The night before Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's (AIPAC) annual conference, House Democrats removed language from an Ira...
Mar 13, 2007 / The Nation
Surge Creep Surge Creep
When it comes to surging in Iraq, it's "encouraging" out there. So the President tells us ("Yet even at this early hour, there are some encouraging signs…"); so Lt. Gen. David ...
Mar 13, 2007 / The Nation
Workers to Nike: Just Don’t Do It! Workers to Nike: Just Don’t Do It!
Back in the 1990s, the BJ&B hat factory, in the Dominican Republic, represented one of campus anti-sweatshop activism's biggest triumphs. (Back in the day, I did a lot of reportin...
Mar 12, 2007 / The Nation
Will Dems Channel Rove to Sell Iraq Withdrawal? Will Dems Channel Rove to Sell Iraq Withdrawal?
Democrats in Congress have finally settled on a binding timeline to withdraw troops from Iraq by late 2008, which President Bush threatened to veto. This weekend Speaker Pelosi re...
Mar 12, 2007 / The Nation
The New Rumsfeld The New Rumsfeld
Alberto Gonzales is the new Donald Rumsfeld. Up until President Bush replaced his defense secretary a day after the midterm elections, Rummy was synonymous with the arrogance, se...
Mar 12, 2007 / The Nation