The AIPAC Caucus The AIPAC Caucus
The night before Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's (AIPAC) annual conference, House Democrats removed language from an Ira...
Mar 13, 2007 / The Notion / The Nation
Surge Creep Surge Creep
When it comes to surging in Iraq, it's "encouraging" out there. So the President tells us ("Yet even at this early hour, there are some encouraging signs…"); so Lt. Gen. David ...
Mar 13, 2007 / The Notion / The Nation
Workers to Nike: Just Don’t Do It! Workers to Nike: Just Don’t Do It!
Back in the 1990s, the BJ&B hat factory, in the Dominican Republic, represented one of campus anti-sweatshop activism's biggest triumphs. (Back in the day, I did a lot of reportin...
Mar 12, 2007 / The Notion / The Nation
Will Dems Channel Rove to Sell Iraq Withdrawal? Will Dems Channel Rove to Sell Iraq Withdrawal?
Democrats in Congress have finally settled on a binding timeline to withdraw troops from Iraq by late 2008, which President Bush threatened to veto. This weekend Speaker Pelosi re...
Mar 12, 2007 / The Notion / The Nation
The New Rumsfeld The New Rumsfeld
Alberto Gonzales is the new Donald Rumsfeld. Up until President Bush replaced his defense secretary a day after the midterm elections, Rummy was synonymous with the arrogance, se...
Mar 12, 2007 / The Notion / The Nation
How Our Soldiers Became Hostages How Our Soldiers Became Hostages
You would have to start any brief "support our troops" history with the dismal end of the Vietnam War and a consensus that the antiwar movement had been particularly self-destruct...
Mar 12, 2007 / The Notion / The Nation
Giving DC a Vote Giving DC a Vote
Imagine you lived in the most powerful city in the world. Imagine elected officials from all across the country came there to debate the nation's future. Imagine you paid taxes an...
Mar 9, 2007 / The Notion / The Nation
Wasting Our Soldiers’ Lives Wasting Our Soldiers’ Lives
We know that, since the moment President Bush stood under the "Mission Accomplished" banner on the USS Abraham Lincoln in early May 2003 and declared "major combat operations in I...
Mar 9, 2007 / The Notion / The Nation
Paradoxes of the US-Iranian Dance Paradoxes of the US-Iranian Dance
One week ago today we were sitting in the lobby of our hotel in Amman,Jordan, talking with the very smart and well-informed Middle Eastanalyst Joost Hiltermann about the interacti...
Mar 9, 2007 / The Notion / The Nation
Waxman Sets Hearings on CIA Leak Case Waxman Sets Hearings on CIA Leak Case
Vice President Dick Cheney may have avoided serious law enforcement scrutiny in regard to his office's efforts to discredit and harm the man who exposed the administration's manip...
Mar 9, 2007 / The Notion / The Nation