Bayh vs. Lugar Bayh vs. Lugar
For months now, Indiana Senator Evan Bayh has been traveling all across the country fashioning himself as the latest incarnation of warrior Democrat. A key part of Bayh's routine i...
Apr 18, 2006 / The Notion / Ari Berman
Time for a Senate Investigation Time for a Senate Investigation
Following the recent testimony by Dick Cheney's former chief of staff that both President Bush and Vice President Cheney were actively involved in scheming to discredit former Amba...
Apr 18, 2006 / The Notion / Adam Howard
Our True Colors Our True Colors
In the Washington Post Monday, pollster Richard Morin writes about how George Bush's plummeting poll numbers have rendered the red-blue political map close-to-obsolete. "Stat...
Apr 18, 2006 / The Notion / Adam Howard
What Will DeLay Do? (WWDD) What Will DeLay Do? (WWDD)
What will Tom DeLay do next? Will he form a ministry from prison, a la Chuck Colson? Will he join his lobbyist buddies on K Street? Will he become a right-wing activist? Or could ...
Apr 17, 2006 / The Notion / Ari Berman
And Now Oprah And Now Oprah
Last week I wrote about the efforts of Representative Sherrod Brown and others to change a system in which the federal minimum wage has been frozen for eight years at $5.15 an hour...
Apr 14, 2006 / The Notion / Adam Howard
Reverend William Sloane Coffin, Jr: 1924-2006 Reverend William Sloane Coffin, Jr: 1924-2006
"Clearly the trick in life is to die young as late as possible," wrote Reverend William Sloane Coffin in his last book, Credo. Bill Coffin, as his friends knew him, was o...
Apr 13, 2006 / Lived History / Adam Howard
Dean: No Dem Position on Gitmo Dean: No Dem Position on Gitmo
In Time magazine this week, Joe Klein describes how John Kerry responded to the revelations of torture at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison in May 2004 by holding a focus group in Arkansas....
Apr 12, 2006 / The Notion / Ari Berman
The Almighty’s Plan for Tom DeLay The Almighty’s Plan for Tom DeLay
Now we know why Tom DeLay decided to quit Congress. It wasn't becausehe resigned as Majority Leader last September in advance of his moneylaundering trial in Texas. Or because his ...
Apr 11, 2006 / The Notion / Ari Berman
Kerry Breaks Ranks Kerry Breaks Ranks
With his op-ed piece in the New York Times on Wednesday; his remarks on Meet the Press this past Sunday; and his e-mail and online petition calling for a withdrawal from Iraq today...
Apr 11, 2006 / The Notion / Adam Howard
All the Gossip That’s Fit to Print All the Gossip That’s Fit to Print
When the New York Times redesigned its website, I started to worry -- so dumbed down, so much white space, so many bells and whistles. Was the Times having another identity crisis ...
Apr 10, 2006 / The Notion / Richard Kim