Cheney’s Oily Interests Cheney’s Oily Interests
Wondering why Vice-President Dick Cheney recently played footsie with Kazakhstan's autocratic leader--an oil-rich president with an awful human rights record whose recent re-elect...
May 16, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
Heckuva Job, Dubya Heckuva Job, Dubya
Let's get a couple of things straight about the immigration speech President George W. Bush unreeled Monday night from the Oval Office.His address had nothing to do with actual bo...
May 15, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
Crybaby Conservatives Crybaby Conservatives
As George W. Bush's poll numbers plummet, influential conservatives have diagnosed the cause of his misery: he's not conservative enough. Bush is just a softy moderate masqueradi...
May 15, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
Kaiser Kidney Fiasco Part II Kaiser Kidney Fiasco Part II
Last week I wrote about the Los Angeles Times smart piece of investigative journalism on Kaiser Permanente's troubled kidney transplant program in California. As a result of th...
May 15, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
Foucault on The West Wing Foucault on The West Wing
Illegal wire-tapping, millions of civilian telephone records turned over to the NSA, National Guard troops "temporarily" deployed on the Mexican border, "extraordinary rendition" ...
May 15, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
Prime Time Bush Bull Prime Time Bush Bull
What will Bush really mean by sending "troops to the border" as anticipated in his Monday night speech on immigration. Probably a lot less than what it is implied as I explain he...
May 15, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
Had Enough? Had Enough?
Had Enough? It's a phrase Newt Gingrich adapted from an ad exec in 1946 and popularized. Now he's telling Democrats to use it against his own Party. For once, Democrats should he...
May 12, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
So You Want to Be a Rock & Roll Star? So You Want to Be a Rock & Roll Star?
Remember when your parents used to say, if you study hard you can grow up to be President? Remember when it was, well, the job to aspire to? But what with Bush at 29 percent appr...
May 12, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
Wolfowitz’s New Comb Wolfowitz’s New Comb
Almost a year has passed since Iraq War architect and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz became president of the World Bank -- and the reviews have been slow to come, largely...
May 11, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
Block that Cliche! Block that Cliche!
Most people agree that it's unattractive to try to stop a campusspeaker--however odious--who comes simply to present a point of view.But the choice of commencement speaker is a di...
May 11, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation