Outsourcing Intelligence Outsourcing Intelligence
Key aspects of national security, including intelligence and analysis used to create the President's Daily Brief, have been turned over to private corporations.
Jul 24, 2007 / Feature / R.J. Hillhouse
Future 5000 Future 5000
Who says students are apathetic? In periodic posts, I've tried to debunk the silly and unfounded notion that young people are insufficiently engaged with the critical political, e...
Jul 24, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Cindy Sheehan: “Challenge the Status Quo” Cindy Sheehan: “Challenge the Status Quo”
Fresh from being arrested on Capitol Hill, along with 45 other activists demanding that Congress get about the business of impeaching George Bush and Dick Cheney, Cindy Sheehan ha...
Jul 24, 2007 / John Nichols
Attack of the Raging Chicks Attack of the Raging Chicks
New York Times columnist David Brooks is one of the more effective conservative commentators, in that he is a master at making outrageous arguments with a professorial elan that su...
Jul 24, 2007 / Lakshmi Chaudhry
An Obama Flub at the YouTube Debate? An Obama Flub at the YouTube Debate?
I can see the ad now: Kim Jong Il, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Fidel Castro, Bashar al-Assad, and Hugo Chavez all strolling into the White House, and a grinning Ba...
Jul 24, 2007 / David Corn
Stand Up for DC’s Right to Vote Stand Up for DC’s Right to Vote
A striking yard sign is springing up on lawns across the nation's capital: a fist grasping a "V" with the words "I Demand The Vote" and "No Taxation Without Representation" writte...
Jul 24, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Dept of Misleading Headlines Dept of Misleading Headlines
According to the latest New York Times poll, "two-thirds of those polled said the United States should reduce its forces in Iraq, or remove them altogether." The same num...
Jul 24, 2007 / Ari Berman
YouTube Rocks YouTube Rocks
A few minutes into Monday night's CNN/You Tube debate at the Citadel Military Academy in South Carolina, Senator Barack Obama said, "I believe in the core decency of the Ameri...
Jul 24, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Gardening for Change in the City Gardening for Change in the City
Local food projects and community gardens are springing up in urban areas all over the country, cutting a promising new path to empowering the poor.
Jul 23, 2007 / Feature / Sophie Johnson
The Dems’ Nuclear Option The Dems’ Nuclear Option
We've done all we can do, Democrats said after pulling an all-nighter last week, when Republicans blocked yet another vote on a proposal to begin withdrawing American troops from I...
Jul 23, 2007 / Ari Berman