Bushites Edge into Talks with Tehran Bushites Edge into Talks with Tehran
The US and Iranian ambassadors in Baghdad met for four hours Monday, hosted by Iraqi PM Nuri al-Maliki in his office in the Baghdad Green Zone.
May 29, 2007 / The Notion / Helena Cobban
Fighting for Democracy on Memorial Day Fighting for Democracy on Memorial Day
Memorial Day is, as former North Carolina Senator John Edwards reminds us, "a serious holiday." And this year, in particular, it falls at what Edwards rightly refers to a...
May 27, 2007 / The Notion / John Nichols
Ron Perelman–Duff, Barkin and Time to Find New Timelines Ron Perelman–Duff, Barkin and Time to Find New Timelines
Ron Perelman. A fixture in New York society. Gorgeous wives. Patricia Duff. Ellen Barkin. Didn't like any of them having a timeline to do their stuff--whether active political work...
May 25, 2007 / The Notion / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Campus Unrest Campus Unrest
On some West Coast college campuses this week, students and workers have been outspoken. Tuesday afternoon the Stanford students occupying their presidents office were arrested, as...
May 24, 2007 / The Notion / Liza Featherstone
The (Air) Power of Withdrawal The (Air) Power of Withdrawal
In a recent inside-the-fold round-up of the previous day's mayhem in Iraq, David S. Cloud, writing for my hometown paper, devoted 729 words to an account of American casualties fro...
May 24, 2007 / The Notion / TomDispatch
You Have The Power! You Have The Power!
It feels like everything and nothing is occurring on the Hill these days. Democrats in Congress are caving on Iraq, compromising on trade, backtracking on ethics reform and pushin...
May 23, 2007 / The Notion / Ari Berman
Deathbed Czars Deathbed Czars
As a group of self-posturing macho men not afraid of a little torture, the Republicans do seem to have a habit of trying to take advantage of people when they are literally on thei...
May 23, 2007 / The Notion / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Not a “Compromise,” It’s a Blank Check Not a “Compromise,” It’s a Blank Check
The question is not whether House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid flinched in their negotiations with the Bush administration over the continuation of th...
May 23, 2007 / The Notion / John Nichols
Stanford Students Expect “Moral Integrity” from Prez Stanford Students Expect “Moral Integrity” from Prez
This morning, eleven Stanford University students began occupying the lobby of their president's office demanding humane conditions for the workers who make clothes and hats bearin...
May 22, 2007 / The Notion / Liza Featherstone
MoveOn Surveys Members on Constitutional Rights MoveOn Surveys Members on Constitutional Rights
MoveOn.org is surveying its members' enthusiasm for a campaign to restore constitutional rights in an online poll that may shape the group's "next steps." The initial po...
May 22, 2007 / The Notion / Ari Melber