Governor Romney, You’re No Jack Kennedy Governor Romney, You’re No Jack Kennedy
There was irony in the fact that George Herbert Walker Bush introduced former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney's much-anticipated speech on religion and politics. Almost four d...
Dec 6, 2007 / John Nichols
Blackwater’s Bu$ine$$ Blackwater’s Bu$ine$$
Undeterred by scandal, Blackwater's global business is booming and continues to pursue its political agenda from deep inside the Mitt Romney campaign.
Dec 6, 2007 / Jeremy Scahill
NIE on Iran Signals a Presidency in Decline NIE on Iran Signals a Presidency in Decline
Whatever else the release of the 16-agency National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on the Iranian bomb may be, it is certainly a reasonable measure of inside-the-Beltway Bush administ...
Dec 6, 2007 / TomDispatch
Arguing About Gitmo Arguing About Gitmo
Yesterday the Supreme Court heard arguments in what may be the most important constitutional case of the decade: whether the men detained at Guantanamo have a right to a fair trial...
Dec 6, 2007 / Jon Wiener
Will Clinton, Obama, Biden and Dodd Show for Key Farm Vote? Will Clinton, Obama, Biden and Dodd Show for Key Farm Vote?
Senators Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Chris Dodd are all running around Iowa telling farmers how much they care about them. But do the Democratic presidential con...
Dec 6, 2007 / John Nichols
Media Ownership Fight Moves to Congress Media Ownership Fight Moves to Congress
Rutgers University recently hosted the latest in a series of town hall forums being conducted by the two members of the five-person Federal Communications Commissions (FCC) who ar...
Dec 6, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
A Short Summary of What Karl Rove Now Says About the Origins of the War A Short Summary of What Karl Rove Now Says About the Origins of the War
War? What war?
Dec 5, 2007 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Washington Post Attacks the Man who Got Iran Right Washington Post Attacks the Man who Got Iran Right
The Washington Post's Al Kamen has a snarky little item in today's paper about the International Atomic Energy Agency's Director General Mohamed ElBaradei. Kamen awards ElBaradei ...
Dec 5, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Unregulated, Uninspected Food For Thought Unregulated, Uninspected Food For Thought
After an audit released last week that amounted to a complete and utter indictment of the Food and Drug Administration, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt yesterday ...
Dec 5, 2007 / The Nation