Conditioning the Funds Conditioning the Funds
The House today begins debate on a simple two paragraph non-binding resolution [pdf] opposing President Bush's escalation in Iraq. After the speeches this week, the real work of ...
Feb 13, 2007 / The Nation
Show Her the Money Show Her the Money
I've never met Drew Gilpin Faust, the new president of Harvard, and I confess to being unfamiliar with her work. But from what I've read about her, it sounds like Harvard made an ...
Feb 13, 2007 / The Nation
The Most Corrupt Bushies The Most Corrupt Bushies
Who are the 25 most corrupt officials in the Bush Administration? Where does one even start? With Scooter Libby, on trial for lying to federal investigators? David Safavian, the...
Feb 12, 2007 / The Nation
Surging into Hell Surging into Hell
So far, what exactly is surging in Iraq? US casualties, which are at a post-invasion high: According to an Associated Press analysis, more American troops were "killed in comb...
Feb 12, 2007 / The Nation
Circling the Square Circling the Square
The day before Barack Obama announced his candidacy for president in Springfield, I was having breakfast in Chicago with my friend Paul Smith. Paul's what might be called an Obama...
Feb 12, 2007 / The Nation
Fox News Goes Corporate Fox News Goes Corporate
It's official: Rupert Murdoch is launching a new business channel that will be "more business friendly" than its competitors, namely CNBC. As if CNBC (owned by General Electric) ...
Feb 11, 2007 / The Nation
Drew Gilpin Faust: Why We Love War Drew Gilpin Faust: Why We Love War
Drew Faust, the historian who has been named Harvard's first female president, has been praised for her "people skills," but she's also done brilliant intellectual work on a cruci...
Feb 10, 2007 / The Nation
Choice time: Unravel Al Qaeda or Fight Iran? Choice time: Unravel Al Qaeda or Fight Iran?
So just how firmly do the Bushists want to pursue the campaign to unravel Al-Qaeda? In today's WaPo, Dafna Linzer has a story, attributed largely to unnamed but concerned adminis...
Feb 10, 2007 / The Nation
Wall Street Whining Wall Street Whining
In response to the massive loss of unionzed, relatively well-paid manufacturing jobs in the US, the barons of Wall Street (Bob Rubin, et al) generally respond with thinly veiled c...
Feb 9, 2007 / The Nation
Ethnomusicologists Against Torture Ethnomusicologists Against Torture
Professional associations can be unaccountable, self-interested and reactionary. (It was the American Medical Association that almost single-handedly killed national health insura...
Feb 8, 2007 / The Nation