My Dinner With Ashcroft My Dinner With Ashcroft
I spent this past weekend bunkered in with 350 movement conservatives and some of their favorite pols and strategists – from John Ashcroft to Tom Tancredo to Jim Woolsey --an...
Feb 27, 2006 / The Notion / Marc Cooper
Ted’s Excellent New Adventure Ted’s Excellent New Adventure
In the New York Times on Friday, Ted Koppel – now a columnist free from the strictures of ABC-Disney – lays it on the line in examining the undeniable role of oil in ou...
Feb 26, 2006 / The Notion / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Duke Ain’t Cheap Duke Ain’t Cheap
There's one thing you can say about Duke Cunningham: He didn't come cheap. Mitchell Wade, the defense contractor who purchased Cunningham's California home for a price inflated by ...
Feb 24, 2006 / The Notion / Ari Berman
“It is a Dick Cheney World Out There…” “It is a Dick Cheney World Out There…”
Bill Moyers is hitting the road in California for an eight-city speaking tour to raise issues of money and politics. And, as usual, he's got a lot to say about the withering state ...
Feb 24, 2006 / The Notion / John Nichols
X-Offenders X-Offenders
A judge in Colombia has ruled that a bicycle courier be jailed for four years for grabbing a woman's bum while he whizzed past her on the street. When the grabber was caught, Dian...
Feb 24, 2006 / The Notion / Christine Owens
L.A. Labor Thrown Into Crisis L.A. Labor Thrown Into Crisis
The country's most dynamic and progressive union coalition – The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor--finds itself in a world of pain this week, just a few months out from...
Feb 24, 2006 / The Notion / Marc Cooper
Days of Rage in Iraq Days of Rage in Iraq
Iraq is in the early stages of a civil war, as events on the ground make painfully clear. At least 111 people have been killed since Sunni insurgents attacked one of the holiest Sh...
Feb 23, 2006 / The Notion / Ari Berman
L’Affair Dubai Spins Beyond Satire L’Affair Dubai Spins Beyond Satire
The Onion may have grounds for legal action against the Bush administration for unfair competition. After all, the administration is supposed to make its best effort to manage the...
Feb 23, 2006 / The Notion / John Nichols
One Red State One Red State
A friend of mine from South Carolina sent me the most astonishing article on his home state from yesterday's USA Today. Reporter Ron Barnett examines the quixotic quest of Cory Bur...
Feb 23, 2006 / The Notion / Richard Kim
The Truth About Dubya and Dubai The Truth About Dubya and Dubai
While there are plenty of important questions to discuss regarding port security in the United States, all of these issues were present before the Dubai World Ports (DP World) cont...
Feb 23, 2006 / The Notion / Katrina vanden Heuvel