Breastfeeding and Blow Jobs Breastfeeding and Blow Jobs
Yesterday was one of those days when, having read the paper you are quite certain it is full of misprints and mistakes--either that or you've slipped down Alice's rabbit hole into ...
Jun 13, 2007 / The Notion / Karen Houppert
Shawskank Redemption Shawskank Redemption
First she name-dropped "the men and women serving our country in Iraq," and then moved on to God. With that kind of rhetoric, you'd think Ms. Hilton was running for offic...
Jun 12, 2007 / The Notion / Lakshmi Chaudhry
Where Is the Love? Where Is the Love?
None of us will soon forget that terrible Tuesday in November 2004 when the exit polling said one thing and Ohio said another, when values was the thing, Karl Rove was a genius, an...
Jun 12, 2007 / The Notion / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Foreign Agent Fred Foreign Agent Fred
The mainstream media is starting to pay attention to Fred Thompson's decades-long gig as a well-heeled Washington lobbyist. His client list has been noted in this space and elsewhe...
Jun 12, 2007 / The Notion / Ari Berman
The Missing American Bomb The Missing American Bomb
Here's the strange thing: Since 2001, our media has been filled with terrifying nuclear headlines. The Iraqi bomb (you remember those "mushroom clouds" about to rise ov...
Jun 11, 2007 / The Notion / TomDispatch
Bad News Benchmarks Bad News Benchmarks
The Brookings Institution's Iraq Index provides the most authoritative measure of how much progress is being made in Iraq. Their recent findings? Not much.
Jun 11, 2007 / The Notion / Ari Berman
Richard Rorty, RIP Richard Rorty, RIP
A brilliant, humane scholar. A public intellectual in the finest sense, and a profound influence on the way I think about politics, long-time Nation contributor Richard Rorty has d...
Jun 9, 2007 / The Notion / Chris Hayes
Curbing Corporate America Curbing Corporate America
Corporate and CEO profits are at an all-time high. The richest 1 percent in America posses the wealth of the bottom 95 percent combined. Companies deploy hundreds of lobbyists and ...
Jun 8, 2007 / The Notion / Ari Berman
Hillary vs. Labor, Round II Hillary vs. Labor, Round II
Hillary Clinton's chief strategist, Mark Penn, is becoming a liability for her campaign. Following the publication of The Nation's article, Hillary Inc., the heads of two large uni...
Jun 7, 2007 / The Notion / Ari Berman
California: Iraq War Referendum Advances California: Iraq War Referendum Advances
California voters could become the first in the U.S. to formally demand that U.S. troops be pulled out of Iraq. By a 2 to 1 margin on Wednesday, the state senate voted to place a ...
Jun 7, 2007 / The Notion / Marc Cooper