Bad Guys Bad Guys
I hesitate to get into an inter-magazine pissing match, but I just couldn't let this post by The New Republic's James Kirchick go unanswered. Kirchick takes aim at the Nation's la...
Apr 30, 2007 / The Nation
Pull the Plug on the Mercenary War Pull the Plug on the Mercenary War
Who will stop the shadow US army in Iraq? Don't count on Congressional Democrats.
Apr 30, 2007 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill
The New Cold War The New Cold War
Doesn't it feel like a new cold war out there? Condi Rice has taken off those dominatrix black boots and slipped into dark cold war terminology: "The idea that somehow 10 interc...
Apr 30, 2007 / The Nation
How Not to Withdraw from Iraq: The Democrats’ Plan How Not to Withdraw from Iraq: The Democrats’ Plan
Before you imagine that the Democrats' plan, just passed by Congress, would actually get U.S. troops out of Iraq, read the fine print. Let's be clear about what it is -- when i...
Apr 30, 2007 / The Nation
Spell It Out: “I-M-P-E-A-C-H!” Spell It Out: “I-M-P-E-A-C-H!”
In January, Brooklyn's Jacob Park made an audacious proposal to the loose coalition of groups that has been campaigning to impeach President Bush and Vice President Cheney. They ...
Apr 28, 2007 / John Nichols
Twelve Steps to Cutting Poverty in Half Twelve Steps to Cutting Poverty in Half
Last Wednesday, at the Center for American Progress (CAP) in Washington, the CAP Task Force on Poverty released the results of fourteen months of work in its report, From Poverty...
Apr 28, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Future of the Party? The Future of the Party?
Did the recent College Democrats of New York State Convention augur a new day for the Democratic Party?
Apr 27, 2007 / Feature / Habiba Alcindor
The Democrats’ Depressing Debate The Democrats’ Depressing Debate
The candidates ignored race, class and religion, and fumbled the key question of how to get out of Iraq.
In New Book, Tenet Bashes Cheney Belatedly In New Book, Tenet Bashes Cheney Belatedly
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Should Americans have to pay to get the truth about how their government failed them?
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Apr 27, 2007 / David Corn
Reality Check Reality Check
Want a reality check on the implications of the Supreme Court verdict in Gonzales v. Carhart? Throwing out thirty years of legal precedent, the court declared that Congress has an...
Apr 27, 2007 / The Nation