Poll Vault Poll Vault
In Conned, Nation reporter Sasha Abramsky sets out to highlight a growing population of disenfranchised Americans.
Mar 30, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Mark Sorkin
On the Revelation That Dick Cheney Requires The Television to Be Pre-set to Fox News in Any Hotel Room He Is About to Occupy On the Revelation That Dick Cheney Requires The Television to Be Pre-set to Fox News in Any Hotel Room He Is About to Occupy
All the news the Veep agrees to watch is for minds that are not only closed, but locked.
Mar 30, 2006 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Taming Global Capitalism Anew Taming Global Capitalism Anew
Taming global capitalism is the overriding challenge of our time. Joseph E. Stiglitz, Thea Lee, James K. Galbraith and others offer their ideas on how the United States can transfo...
Mar 30, 2006 / Feature / Joel Rogers, James K. Galbraith, Jeff Faux, Thea M. Lee, Will Hutton, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Marcellus Andrews, and Jane D’Arista
The New Campus Left-Style The New Campus Left-Style
Loads of student activists--far-left and moderate, dredded and shiny-shoed--and their mentors responded to Sam Graham-Felsen's "The New Face of the Campus Left" [Feb. 13].
Mar 30, 2006 / Our Readers and Sam Graham-Felsen
Russ Feingold’s Legal Firepower Russ Feingold’s Legal Firepower
Congressional Democrats have pretty much abandoned their Constitutionally-mandated responsibility to check and balance the excesses to the executive branch – so much so that the...
Mar 30, 2006 / John Nichols
Reconstruction Corruption Watch Reconstruction Corruption Watch
As we enter Year 4 in Iraq, it's getting tougher to track the extent of waste, fraud and war profiteering perpetrated every day. This is the first in a series of entries on The No...
Mar 30, 2006 / Adam Howard
Competence Won’t Get US Out of Iraq Competence Won’t Get US Out of Iraq
Trumpets blared on the loudspeaker. Dozens of members of Congress gathered on a makeshift stage, draped by giant American flags, cops, firefighters and veterans in uniform, and a h...
Mar 29, 2006 / Ari Berman
Facing Facts on Torture Facing Facts on Torture
In the February 27 issue of The New Yorker, Jane Mayer reported on the efforts of Alberto Mora, outgoing general counsel for the US Navy, to stop the Pentagon from authorizing the...
Mar 29, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
No Reform in Lobbying Reform No Reform in Lobbying Reform
What a coincidence: the Senate is set to wrap up its debate on lobbying reform the same day Jack Abramoff is sentenced in Florida on conspiracy and wire fraud charges. There was a...
Mar 29, 2006 / Ari Berman
The Testing Bubble Bursts The Testing Bubble Bursts
Looks like the $2.3 billion standardized testing industry forgot to devise a much needed self-examination. Two weeks ago, after two students paid fees to have their SATs rescored...
Mar 29, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel