What’s the Matter With Ohio? What’s the Matter With Ohio?
Well, for starters, there’s that stolen election people are finally talking about. But now the far right is attempting an additional travesty on the good people of Ohio. A bi…
Jun 20, 2006 / The Nation
Walk the Walk Walk the Walk
I was on a panel this morning about the 2006 elections with twoconsultants--Republican Ed Rollins and Democrat Doug Schoen--andTime magazine columnist Joe Klein. The conversation...
Jun 20, 2006 / The Nation
Oversight? No Thanks Oversight? No Thanks
After all the reports of corporate crimes and contract abuses in Iraq and Afghanistan -- including the recent revelation by Halliburton Watch that Halliburton and its KBR subsidia...
Jun 20, 2006 / The Nation
A Crucial Vote A Crucial Vote
When John Kerry, Barbara Boxer and Russ Feingold offer an amendment to the defense spending bill Wednesday calling on US troops to leave Iraq by July 1, 2007, only a handful of Se...
Jun 20, 2006 / The Nation
The National Entertainment State, 2006 The National Entertainment State, 2006
After a decade of strategic mergers, impulsive couplings and messy divorces--the birth of new media--this chart shows that national media landscape still bears the oversized footpr...
Jun 20, 2006 / Feature / The Nation
Arnold and Antonio? Arnold and Antonio?
Some strange goings-on out here on the Left Coast. The progressive Democrat Mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, has so far not endorsed the party's nominee for Governor, P...
Jun 19, 2006 / The Nation
Onward Christian Lawyers Onward Christian Lawyers
In his scathing dissent in the Supreme Court decision that overturned state sodomy laws, Justice Scalia objected to the court's imposition of "foreign moods, fads or fashions on A...
Jun 19, 2006 / The Nation
Mayor Ron Dellums Mayor Ron Dellums
It took nearly two weeks of counting paper ballots, but this weekend it became official. Legendary, retired Bay Area congressman Ron Dellums is the new Mayor of Oakland. Dellums s...
Jun 19, 2006 / The Nation
Democrats to Jefferson: Step Down Democrats to Jefferson: Step Down
Democrats got tough with Rep. William Jefferson last night, voting 99-58 to boot the corrupt Congressman off the powerful Ways and Means Committee. Today he was formally removed ...
Jun 16, 2006 / The Nation
It’s Sandal Season. Was Your Pedicure Made in a Sweatshop? It’s Sandal Season. Was Your Pedicure Made in a Sweatshop?
In a recent post I suggested that our society needs nurses more than we need manicurists. That's true, of course, but I didn't mean to belittle nail workers. Sure, good nursing ...
Jun 16, 2006 / The Nation