How Our Soldiers Became Hostages How Our Soldiers Became Hostages
You would have to start any brief "support our troops" history with the dismal end of the Vietnam War and a consensus that the antiwar movement had been particularly self-destruct...
Mar 12, 2007 / The Nation
Giving DC a Vote Giving DC a Vote
Imagine you lived in the most powerful city in the world. Imagine elected officials from all across the country came there to debate the nation's future. Imagine you paid taxes an...
Mar 9, 2007 / The Nation
Wasting Our Soldiers’ Lives Wasting Our Soldiers’ Lives
We know that, since the moment President Bush stood under the "Mission Accomplished" banner on the USS Abraham Lincoln in early May 2003 and declared "major combat operations in I...
Mar 9, 2007 / The Nation
Paradoxes of the US-Iranian Dance Paradoxes of the US-Iranian Dance
One week ago today we were sitting in the lobby of our hotel in Amman,Jordan, talking with the very smart and well-informed Middle Eastanalyst Joost Hiltermann about the interacti...
Mar 9, 2007 / The Nation
Waxman Sets Hearings on CIA Leak Case Waxman Sets Hearings on CIA Leak Case
Vice President Dick Cheney may have avoided serious law enforcement scrutiny in regard to his office's efforts to discredit and harm the man who exposed the administration's manip...
Mar 9, 2007 / The Nation
For Women in Iraq, a Sad Day For Women in Iraq, a Sad Day
It's Women's Day in Iraq, again, but not the bread-and-roses kind of day women want. The fact is, since the US invasion, every day has been a sick-and-twisted kind of women's day ...
Mar 8, 2007 / The Nation
“Tax” Is Not a Four Letter Word “Tax” Is Not a Four Letter Word
Down in the Texas state capitol for the day, enjoying both the buzz of activity that comes with the legislature actually being in session (they only have regular sessions for five...
Mar 8, 2007 / The Nation
The Clean Elections Challenge The Clean Elections Challenge
My recent Nation article on Senator Max Baucus, "K Street's Favorite Democrat," has been a topic of discussion back in Montana, where Baucus is up for re-election in 2008. Last n...
Mar 8, 2007 / The Nation
A Wasted War A Wasted War
Let's start with the obvious waste. We know that hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have lost their lives since the Bush administration invaded their country in March 2003, that alm...
Mar 8, 2007 / The Nation
Time for Celebration and Protest Time for Celebration and Protest
A few nights ago, after putting the baby to bed, I watched The L-Word, then lay on the sofa and read Jennifer Baumgardner's excellent new book, Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics, ...
Mar 7, 2007 / The Nation