Hold Dick Cheney to Account Hold Dick Cheney to Account
The conviction of Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff on charges of obstruction of justice, perjury and lying to the FBI confirms the suspicions that millions of Am...
Mar 7, 2007 / The Nation
Investigating Attorneygate Investigating Attorneygate
The Nation's Washington intern, Stephanie Condon, reports on yesterday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the dismissal of eight US attorneys by the Bush Administation: Sena...
Mar 7, 2007 / The Nation
Measuring Progress by Chaos in Iraq Measuring Progress by Chaos in Iraq
A CNN headline just flashed across the screen: "President Bush cites progress in Iraq crackdown." This from Bush, on the day that 93 Iraqis were blown up in the holy city of Karba...
Mar 6, 2007 / The Nation
So Much for Med School: An MCAT glitch affects hundreds of test-takers So Much for Med School: An MCAT glitch affects hundreds of test-takers
An MCAT glitch affects hundreds of test-takers.
Mar 6, 2007 / The Nation
States Surge Against Escalation in Iraq: How various state legislatures are expressing their outrage at the troop surge States Surge Against Escalation in Iraq: How various state legislatures are expressing their outrage at the troop surge
How various state legislatures are expressing their outrage at the troop surge.
Mar 6, 2007 / The Nation
Marrying Absurd: The Bush Administration’s attempts to encourage marriage Marrying Absurd: The Bush Administration’s attempts to encourage marriage
The Bush Administration's attempts to encourage marriage.
Mar 6, 2007 / The Nation
R.I.P., Anna Nicole R.I.P., Anna Nicole
At times, the right and the left share a school-marmish attitude toward pop culture and the people who enjoy it. (You know, those benighted fools who make up most of the world's p...
Mar 5, 2007 / The Nation
Home From the Wars–and Homeless Home From the Wars–and Homeless
Homeless Veterans In the Washington Post today, following on the Post's extraordinary series about Walter Reed Army Medical Center, reporter Christian Davenport takes an importan...
Mar 5, 2007 / The Nation
The One in Four War The One in Four War
General David Petraeus, the top US commander in Iraq, is widely viewed as the architect behind a "surge" of 21,500 troops. But even Petraeus believes that the Bush Administration'...
Mar 5, 2007 / The Nation
Human Rights, Democracy, the US, and Syria Human Rights, Democracy, the US, and Syria
I spent a few days in Damascus at the end of February, and was able to get a ground reality view of the effects of the Bush administration's (former) campaign for the forced 'demo...
Mar 5, 2007 / The Nation