Green Rooms Green Rooms
I do a fair amount of TV. And though I never, ever, check my integrity at the door, I have to admit that there are some shows you wish you hadn't agreed to go on. I won't name na...
Feb 16, 2006 / The Notion / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Failing Upwards Failing Upwards
One of the perplexing things about the Democratic Party is how it rewards and glorifies consultants and experts who get major issues so wrong. Back in 2002, former CIA analyst Kenn...
Feb 16, 2006 / The Notion / Ari Berman
Harry Whittington, Prison Reformer Harry Whittington, Prison Reformer
This afternoon, my friend Michael Mushlin--a longtime member of the invaluable Correctional Association of New York and a venerable professor at Pace Law School--sent me a worthy a...
Feb 15, 2006 / The Notion / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Accidents Will Happen Accidents Will Happen
This morning the Philadelphia Inquirer reports that ABC World News Tonight co-anchor Elizabeth Vargas is pregnant--mazel tov! Before everyone piles on about what this means for wor...
Feb 15, 2006 / The Notion / Katha Pollitt
Feingold’s Frustrating Fight to Fix Patriot Act Feingold’s Frustrating Fight to Fix Patriot Act
The Patriot Act needs to be reformed so that it can serve as a legitimate national security tool without undermining basic liberties. That's the view of legal scholars, civil liber...
Feb 15, 2006 / The Notion / John Nichols
Birdshot = WMD? Birdshot = WMD?
For Bill Clinton it was a stain on a blue GAP dress; might Cheney's Waterloo be an errant spray of birdshot? The way the normally dormant Washington press corps has seized upon thi...
Feb 15, 2006 / The Notion / Richard Kim
Impeachment Is Coming? Impeachment Is Coming?
Has Paul Weyrich, a founding father of the modern conservative movement, been reading The Nation? Via TAPPED, I see that Weyrich is ringing alarm bells over the possibility of Dem...
Feb 15, 2006 / The Notion / Ari Berman
Shoot First, Blame Others Later Shoot First, Blame Others Later
Time and again, all we've asked of our government is simple honesty. In the war with Iraq, we wanted an honest assessment of the situation. According to the top CIA Middle East ana...
Feb 15, 2006 / The Notion / Katrina vanden Heuvel
V-Day or P-Day? V-Day or P-Day?
Today is Valentine's Day, which on campus means V-Day--over 1,000 productions of The Vagina Monologues will be taking place across the nation to raise funds for battered women's sh...
Feb 14, 2006 / The Notion / Katha Pollitt
Keeping it Real Keeping it Real
The New York Times has an interesting story on street fiction, the ever-rising genre of "urban" (read: Black) fiction that is moving from stalls on Brooklyn's Fulton Street to Ma...
Feb 14, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation