Armitage’s 5 Year Plan Armitage’s 5 Year Plan
Former Deputy Secretary of State (and Valerie Plame leaker) Richard Armitage called for the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq yesterday. Sort of. "We notify the Iraqis that we're...
Oct 19, 2006 / The Nation
The Conservative Dodge The Conservative Dodge
I often disagree with TNR's Peter Beinart. But his latest essay, debunking the myth that George W. Bush isn't really a conservative, is dead on. "Rarely has so widespread a view ...
Oct 18, 2006 / The Nation
Republicans Who Care (And Those Who Don’t) Republicans Who Care (And Those Who Don’t)
A group of venerable moderate Republican millionaires are starting a new group, Republicans Who Care. As Ellen Miller writes on TPM Cafe, "Does that mean that the rest of the Repu...
Oct 18, 2006 / The Nation
Silent Majority: Gallaudet Protests Shut Down School Silent Majority: Gallaudet Protests Shut Down School
Gallaudet protests shut down school.
Oct 17, 2006 / The Nation
Yellow Means Stop the War in Uganda: Students lobby Congress to get involved. Yellow Means Stop the War in Uganda: Students lobby Congress to get involved.
Students lobby Congress to get involved.
Oct 17, 2006 / The Nation
Assault Gets Even Uglier:Controversy escalates over sexual violence on campus. Assault Gets Even Uglier:Controversy escalates over sexual violence on campus.
Controversy escalates over sexual violence on campus.
Oct 17, 2006 / The Nation
November Surprise? November Surprise?
The US-backed special tribunal in Baghdad signalled Monday that it will likely delay a verdict in thefirst trial of Saddam Hussein to November 5. Why hasn't the mainstream mediac...
Oct 17, 2006 / The Nation
Retail Workers Fight Back Retail Workers Fight Back
Yesterday, more than 200 Wal-Mart workers held a demonstration in front of a Wal-Mart store in Hialeah Gardens, Florida. In the first significant protest ever organized by Wal-Mar...
Oct 17, 2006 / The Nation
Arnold at the Wheel: The Hummer-driving governator greens up. Arnold at the Wheel: The Hummer-driving governator greens up.
The Hummer-driving governator greens up.
Oct 17, 2006 / The Nation
Nuclear Illogic Nuclear Illogic
Twenty years ago this month the world might have taken a different course. On October 11, 1986, at the Reykjavik Summit, Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan entertained the idea t...
Oct 16, 2006 / The Nation