Ditherer-In-Chief Ditherer-In-Chief
In your lifetime, has the US ever exercised less global leadership? The Middle East is burning. Iraq is disintegrating. Afghanistan is collapsing. North Korea is escalating. Iran...
Jul 16, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
GOP’s Got a Problem With Voting Rights GOP’s Got a Problem With Voting Rights
For years, leaders of the Republican Party and their amen corner in the media has been demanding to know why African-American voters so consistently support the Democratic Party. ...
Jul 15, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
Boehner’s Big Bucks Boehner’s Big Bucks
After running as a so-called "reformer" in the race to replace Tom DeLay as House Majority Leader, Ohio Rep. John Boehner admitted in his first major TV interview, "I've got a ver...
Jul 15, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
From Russia, With Hypocrisy From Russia, With Hypocrisy
As Bush and Putin meet in St. Petersburg for the G-8 summit, there's a lot of talk in the US media about Russia's backsliding on democracy. Of course, Russia isn't on a path to de...
Jul 14, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
Dan Rather Should Stick to His Story Dan Rather Should Stick to His Story
The other night Dan Rather was back in center ring. In an hour long interview with CNN's Larry King. Rather spoke with quiet fury about the suits at CBS who treated him, a 44-year...
Jul 14, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
Shut It Down Shut It Down
The Bush Administration claims they always treated prisoners in the war on terror "humanely." Detainees at Abu Ghraib in Iraq, Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, ...
Jul 12, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
Gitmo Reversal Gitmo Reversal
What you learn in American government 101 still rings true: we live in a system of three co-equal branches. The Bush Administration, for perhaps the first time in six years, got t...
Jul 11, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
23 Days 23 Days
No, the above title is not a reference to how many vacation days I've taken this year. Twenty-three days is how long the Senate plans to be in legislative session this year. Acco...
Jul 11, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
Bono’s Anti-Chavez Video Game Bono’s Anti-Chavez Video Game
The New York Post's Page Six reports that Bono , supposed savior of the world's disenfranchised, has, through his private equity firm, invested in a video game which depicts Venez...
Jul 10, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation
Mexico’s Electoral Cliffhanger Mexico’s Electoral Cliffhanger
The fate of Mexico is undetermined at this hour, but this much we know:Don't take at face value what you read in the leading Americannewspapers about Mexico's cliffhanger election...
Jul 10, 2006 / The Notion / The Nation