Libby: No Mistrial, Yet Libby: No Mistrial, Yet
U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton, on Monday morning, dismissed a juror in the trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby after determining that the juror had been exposed to media cove...
Feb 26, 2007 / The Notion / The Nation
Open Congress Open Congress
As a political reporter, you often have occassion to attempt to find specific language in a bill, or figure out who's co-sponsored a piece of legislation, or what the status of an...
Feb 26, 2007 / The Notion / The Nation
Time to Micromanage the War Time to Micromanage the War
Congressional Republicans are planting a trap for Democrats by accusing them of trying to micromanage the war in Iraq by deciding how additional billions of dollars be spent. It's...
Feb 23, 2007 / The Notion / The Nation
PJ O’Rourke Does Adam Smith PJ O’Rourke Does Adam Smith
Yesterday I was invited to attend a fundraiser for the CATO Institute with special guest PJ O'Rourke who is on a book tour for his new book, which is a pretty ingenious idea. He b...
Feb 23, 2007 / The Notion / The Nation
Mainstream Media Discover Antiwar GIs Mainstream Media Discover Antiwar GIs
A story The Nation broke eight weeks ago about the growing movement of active-duty military dissenters against the war will get a nationwide television audience Sunday on CBS News...
Feb 23, 2007 / The Notion / The Nation
Getting Conyers His Conscience Back Getting Conyers His Conscience Back
Ouch. It hurts to listen to. This was Representative John Conyers,speaking to a troops-out demonstration this past January in WashingtonDC: "George Bush has a habit of firing mil...
Feb 23, 2007 / The Notion / The Nation
If Bush Were Prodi If Bush Were Prodi
Italian Prime Minister resigned yesterday after his center-left coalition government lost a crucial foreign policy vote in the Senate. Maybe George W. Bush should do the same. Af...
Feb 22, 2007 / The Notion / The Nation
The Left’s Club for Growth The Left’s Club for Growth
The Washington Post has a front page story today on how progressive groups are putting pressure on Ellen Tauscher, the chairwoman of the House New Democrat Coalition. Tauscher has...
Feb 21, 2007 / The Notion / The Nation
Worse Than Scalia? Worse Than Scalia?
Over at TAPPED, Scott Lemieux makes the case that we have more to fear from Alito and Roberts than we do from Thomas and Scalia: Scalia and Thomas, at least when there's no conf...
Feb 20, 2007 / The Notion / The Nation
The YouTube Defense The YouTube Defense
A teacher, hospital charity worker and father of four, Adel Hamad has been a prisoner at Guantanamo for five years. Like most other detainees at Guantanamo, he's never had a day ...
Feb 19, 2007 / The Notion / The Nation