Will Robert Gates Save America? Will Robert Gates Save America?
The recent CIA documents dump, the so-called "family jewels," tell but part of the story. Our new secretary of defense knows most of the rest. It's fitting that, as par...
Jun 25, 2007 / The Notion / TomDispatch
McCain’s K Street Connection McCain’s K Street Connection
Remember that old story about the pot and the kettle. Well, Tom Edsall of the Huffington Post reports today that John McCain, the once-crusading reformer, has more lobbyists on his...
Jun 25, 2007 / The Notion / Ari Berman
Dying For Press Freedom Dying For Press Freedom
Reviews of "A Mighty Heart" -- the cinematic rendering of the tragic kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl -- inevitably touched on the heroi...
Jun 25, 2007 / The Notion / Lakshmi Chaudhry
Southern California Grocery Workers Vote Massive Strike Southern California Grocery Workers Vote Massive Strike
The union representing more than 65,000 Southern California grocery workers has voted to authorize a region-wide strike against the giant Vons and Ralphs supermarket chains. A few ...
Jun 25, 2007 / The Notion / Marc Cooper
Howard Kurtz–An Unreliable Source? Howard Kurtz–An Unreliable Source?
Here's a segment for next week's CNN show "Reliable Sources." Why is it that the mainstream media treats single-payer healthcare (Medicare for all) as a fringe idea --whe...
Jun 25, 2007 / The Notion / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Time to Get Tough, Mayor Mike Time to Get Tough, Mayor Mike
Ever wonder why you can still get a manicure for $5 in parts of New York City? Or why waiters here are mostly white, while all the busboys are immigrants? All this is explained i...
Jun 21, 2007 / The Notion / Liza Featherstone
Cleaning Up Congress & Campaigns Cleaning Up Congress & Campaigns
As the post-Watergate presidential financing system collapses and Congressional elections grow more expensive by the millions every cycle, Senators Dick Durbin and Arlen Specter be...
Jun 21, 2007 / The Notion / Ari Berman
Obama Wins Straw Poll Obama Wins Straw Poll
Barack Obama won the first annual Take Back America straw poll held this afternoon. Of the over 700 respondents, 29 percent favored Obama, followed by John Edwards in a close secon...
Jun 20, 2007 / The Notion / Ari Berman
Hillary Booed, Again Hillary Booed, Again
Last summer, when she criticized the idea of setting a timetable to withdraw US forces from Iraq, Hillary Clinton was met with a chorus of boos at the annual Take Back America conf...
Jun 20, 2007 / The Notion / Ari Berman
The Gates Inheritance The Gates Inheritance
Think of him as the spymaster who came in from the cold. Well, it wasn't actually so cold out there. After all, Robert Gates was on innumerable corporate boards and the President...
Jun 19, 2007 / The Notion / TomDispatch