Brits to Vote on Blairism (and Trash Collection) Brits to Vote on Blairism (and Trash Collection)
Britons go to the polls May 3 to vote in local elections that will have a sizeable impact on the way that Tony Blair's ten-year premiership ends. Blair, who has been Prime Ministe...
Apr 26, 2007 / The Nation
McCain: Gonzales Should Quit McCain: Gonzales Should Quit
How much appeal does an anti-Alberto Gonzales appeal have with grassroots Republicans? A lot, if John McCain's political calculus is to be trusted. On the day that the Arizona s...
Apr 26, 2007 / The Nation
Shut It Down Shut It Down
This morning hundreds of human rights advocates nationwide began a three day fast to bring attention to the victims of the violence of the School of the Americas and to put pressu...
Apr 25, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Rush’s “Magic Negro” Routine Rush’s “Magic Negro” Routine
Rush Limbaugh has obviously learned nothing from the outrage and anger unleashed by Don Imus' unfortunate "nappy headed ho's" remark. Never one to shy away from unfunny "humor", L...
Apr 25, 2007 / The Nation
Talking with Democracy Now Talking with Democracy Now
Here are links to a transcript of my conversation with Amy Goodman on the April 24 edition of Democracy Now. We discussed the legacy of Boris Yeltsin, the tragic death of David Ha...
Apr 25, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Bush Blames the Troops Bush Blames the Troops
Bush is hiding behind the fiction that officers in the field are calling the shots.
Apr 25, 2007 / Column / Robert Scheer
Mustansiriya U. and Virginia Tech Mustansiriya U. and Virginia Tech
Last January 16th, a car bomb blew up near an entrance to Mustansiriya University in Baghdad -- and then, as rescuers approached, a suicide bomber blew himself up in the crowd. I...
Apr 25, 2007 / The Nation
Kucinich: Impeachment is the Right Response Kucinich: Impeachment is the Right Response
Congressman Dennis Kucinich has now filed his three articles of impeachment against Dick Cheney, and the Ohio Democrat is clearly serious about the holding the vice president to a...
Apr 25, 2007 / The Nation
Bill Moyers and the Fight for American Journalism Bill Moyers and the Fight for American Journalism
Bill Moyers is not the first American to ask with regard to the media coverage of the run-up to the invasion of Iraq: "How did the mainstream press get it so wrong?" The man who ...
Apr 25, 2007 / John Nichols