Targeting Tehran Targeting Tehran
As the Bush Administration steps up its campaign against Iran, opponents have a dual responsibility: to contest the strategic context for escalation and to bar specific acts of agg...
Feb 21, 2007 / Michael T. Klare
Hillary the Hawk Hillary the Hawk
Let's face it. Hillary Clinton is not a peace candidate.
Feb 21, 2007 / Column / Robert Scheer
Libby Trial: Final Arguments about Scooter, Cheney & Truth Libby Trial: Final Arguments about Scooter, Cheney & Truth
Cover-up or scapegoating. Nine conversations or two. Scooter Libby the liar, or Karl Rove the liar.
Feb 21, 2007 / David Corn
Eco-Injustice in Paraguay Eco-Injustice in Paraguay
A child dies after being enveloped by toxic pesticides on a soybean mega-farm, and two landowners are found guilty of homicide. Four years later, they still haven't paid the price ...
Feb 21, 2007 / Feature / Jessica Weisberg and Benjamin Brown
Chris Dodd, D-Constitution Chris Dodd, D-Constitution
No one is going to mistake Chris Dodd for a frontrunner in the race for the Democratic presidential nod. The senator from Connecticut is running fourth in the latest poll of voter...
Feb 20, 2007 / John Nichols
Worse Than Scalia? Worse Than Scalia?
Over at TAPPED, Scott Lemieux makes the case that we have more to fear from Alito and Roberts than we do from Thomas and Scalia: Scalia and Thomas, at least when there's no conf...
Feb 20, 2007 / The Nation
“If Iraq Don’t Kill You, Walter Reed Will” “If Iraq Don’t Kill You, Walter Reed Will”
According to the Washington Post, Walter Reed Army Medical Center in the nation's capital has treated one out of every four soldiers injured in Afghanistan and Iraq. Over 700 out...
Feb 20, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Clinton Would Rather Be Wrong Than President Clinton Would Rather Be Wrong Than President
"If the most important thing to any of you is choosing someone who did not cast that vote or has said his vote was a mistake, then there are others to choose from." So says New Y...
Feb 19, 2007 / John Nichols
Framing the Presidency Framing the Presidency
What kind of executive branch of government did the framers of the Constitution have in mind? Not the runaway powers now claimed by the Bush Administration.
The YouTube Defense The YouTube Defense
A teacher, hospital charity worker and father of four, Adel Hamad has been a prisoner at Guantanamo for five years. Like most other detainees at Guantanamo, he's never had a day ...
Feb 19, 2007 / The Nation