Death Trip Death Trip
Philip Roth and Joan Didion have each written compellingly about death, but their insights about dying and mourning signify a retreat from the world rather than an embrace of the f...
Oct 5, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Richard Goldstein
Disgraced Republicans Disgraced Republicans
America needs a new Congress--the question is, Will Americans hold the GOP to account for their corruption, ineptitude and irresponsibility?
Oct 5, 2006 / The Editors
The Blame Game The Blame Game
Republicans have finally found the causes and culprits of Foleygate: political correctness and George Soros. First, political correctness. On Tuesday the Arlington Group, a coali...
Oct 5, 2006 / The Nation
Big-Brother Software Big-Brother Software
Read Wednesday's New York Times article about how software is being developed to monitor negative opinions of the US or its leaders in overseas newspapers and other publications. ...
Oct 5, 2006 / The Nation
Premature Celebration Premature Celebration
The President and his speechwriters have, these last years, fallen in love with "victory." Back in November, 2005, for instance, promoting his administration's "National Strategy...
Oct 5, 2006 / The Nation
Hastert Under Mounting Pressure Hastert Under Mounting Pressure
House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Illinois, has scheduled a press conference this morning in Chicago. What will Hastert, who faces mounting pressure to quit over his mishandling of...
Oct 5, 2006 / The Nation
The Uphill Battle For Habeas Corpus in George W. Bush’s Washington, D.C. The Uphill Battle For Habeas Corpus in George W. Bush’s Washington, D.C.
As Republicans and Democrats voted to approve the Military Commission Act last week, those who love the law were mortified by its passage and angry at those who capitulated, but un...
Oct 4, 2006 / Feature / Michael Ratner
The Circle Fires The Circle Fires
The fallout from Foleygate keeps increasing. Just when it looks like Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert might be shoring up his support among conservatives, another bombshell dro...
Oct 4, 2006 / The Nation
A Progressive Response to Terror A Progressive Response to Terror
If the United States can abandon the idea of a "war" on terror in favor of a comprehensive and equitable collective response, we may have a shot at stopping the right from destroyi...
Oct 4, 2006 / Feature / Ken Miller
Stale Peanuts Stale Peanuts
All hands are on deck, and scrambling desperately, as the administration tries in vain to get its story straight regarding a July 10, 2001 meeting between then-National Security a...
Oct 4, 2006 / The Nation