Food Fight! Food Fight!
The fast food industry is taking a few knocks lately. Eric Schlosser, author of the phenomenally successful Fast Food Nation, has just published a kid's book, Chew On This: Ever...
May 19, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
The Real John Conyers The Real John Conyers
The Republicans are waging a desperate campaign of Rovian proportions to maintain their one-party reign in Congress. Fear, as we have seen time and again, is their most powerful w...
May 19, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
Immigration and the Security-Technology Complex Immigration and the Security-Technology Complex
Among the chilling proposals in Bush's immigration speech was a plan for a "new identification card for every legal foreign worker" that would use "biometric technology, such as d...
May 19, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
The Tragedy of Undue Pressure The Tragedy of Undue Pressure
Last month I wrote about Haditha, Iraq and allegations that innocent Iraqi civilians had been shot and killed by a unit of U.S. Marines. Today, Rep. John Murtha stated that a mili...
May 18, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
Ralph’s Day with Rudy Ralph’s Day with Rudy
John McCain's commencement address at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University attracted a great deal of media scrutiny. Will Rudy Giuliani's big money fundraiser with Ralph Reed today ...
May 18, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
Pat Thinking on Immigration Pat Thinking on Immigration
In appearances Monday on both Hardball and ScarboroughCountry, Pat Buchanan invoked the same militaristic malevolencethat characterized his infamous 1992speech to the Republican ...
May 18, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
Equal Opportunity Hating Equal Opportunity Hating
Since my last post bashed Republican presidential hopeful John McCain, let me indulge in a little Hillary-bashing today. If you're angry at Hillary and all she represents -- i.e.,...
May 17, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
It’s the War, Stupid It’s the War, Stupid
Yesterday I spoke to a brilliant group of kids studying AP government at Washington's Eleanor Roosevelt High School. One student asked me, "Are politicians in Congress supporting,...
May 17, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
Spreading the McPheever Spreading the McPheever
I confess. I watch American Idol. At the end of a long Tuesday or Wednesday at The Nation, I don't reach for Le Monde Diplomatique or New Left Review. I reach for my remote. And I...
May 17, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
Big Brother’s Little Brother Big Brother’s Little Brother
Six months ago, The Nation published The Dictionary of Republicanisms, a guide to the Orwellian phrases the Republicans have introduced into American politics. And it seems like e...
May 16, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation