Mainstream Media Discover Antiwar GIs Mainstream Media Discover Antiwar GIs
A story The Nation broke eight weeks ago about the growing movement of active-duty military dissenters against the war will get a nationwide television audience Sunday on CBS News...
Feb 23, 2007 / The Nation
Getting Conyers His Conscience Back Getting Conyers His Conscience Back
Ouch. It hurts to listen to. This was Representative John Conyers,speaking to a troops-out demonstration this past January in WashingtonDC: "George Bush has a habit of firing mil...
Feb 23, 2007 / The Nation
If Bush Were Prodi If Bush Were Prodi
Italian Prime Minister resigned yesterday after his center-left coalition government lost a crucial foreign policy vote in the Senate. Maybe George W. Bush should do the same. Af...
Feb 22, 2007 / The Nation
The Left’s Club for Growth The Left’s Club for Growth
The Washington Post has a front page story today on how progressive groups are putting pressure on Ellen Tauscher, the chairwoman of the House New Democrat Coalition. Tauscher has...
Feb 21, 2007 / The Nation
Worse Than Scalia? Worse Than Scalia?
Over at TAPPED, Scott Lemieux makes the case that we have more to fear from Alito and Roberts than we do from Thomas and Scalia: Scalia and Thomas, at least when there's no conf...
Feb 20, 2007 / The Nation
The YouTube Defense The YouTube Defense
A teacher, hospital charity worker and father of four, Adel Hamad has been a prisoner at Guantanamo for five years. Like most other detainees at Guantanamo, he's never had a day ...
Feb 19, 2007 / The Nation
Three Weak Reeds Meet in Jerusalem Three Weak Reeds Meet in Jerusalem
As I write this from Cairo at 11:30 a.m. Monday local time, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is meeting in Jerusalem with Israeli PM Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President...
Feb 19, 2007 / The Nation
House Denounces Bush’s Surge Strategy House Denounces Bush’s Surge Strategy
By a comfortable margin of 246 to 182, the US House on Friday adopted a resolution denouncing President Bush's "surge" of more American troops to the Iraq quagmire. All but two D...
Feb 16, 2007 / The Nation
Free Speech in New York City? Fuhgeddaboutit! Free Speech in New York City? Fuhgeddaboutit!
In summer 2004, citizens who peacefully protested during the Republican National Convention in New York City were subject to mass arrest, lengthy detention under horrible conditio...
Feb 16, 2007 / The Nation
A Rebuke from Congress A Rebuke from Congress
In a matter of hours, the House of Representatives will vote to oppose President Bush's plan to send 21,500 additional troops to Iraq. Though the resolution does not carry the wei...
Feb 16, 2007 / The Nation