23 Days 23 Days
No, the above title is not a reference to how many vacation days I've taken this year. Twenty-three days is how long the Senate plans to be in legislative session this year. Acco...
Jul 11, 2006 / The Nation
World Cup: Party On World Cup: Party On
If there is any message to be gleaned from the World Cup, it is that soccer has finally shed its freight of machismo and anguish, attracting a global audience of fans who simply wa...
Jul 10, 2006 / Feature / Simon Kuper
Mexico’s Fractured Electoral Landscape Mexico’s Fractured Electoral Landscape
The disputed presidential election has fractured Mexico's political landscape, pitting leftists against conservatives and the affluent against an indignant Indian and mestizo under...
Buffet’s Billions Buffet’s Billions
What Warren Buffett's gift of billions to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation lacks in imagination, it makes up for in safety. If only they had the guts to tackle the real proble...
Jul 10, 2006 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
CIA vs. Congress vs. White House: Who to Root For? CIA vs. Congress vs. White House: Who to Root For?
It's hard to know who to root for in the continuing scuffles between the Republican Congress, the White House and the CIA over the intelligence agency. The ...
Jul 10, 2006 / David Corn
Bono’s Anti-Chavez Video Game Bono’s Anti-Chavez Video Game
The New York Post's Page Six reports that Bono , supposed savior of the world's disenfranchised, has, through his private equity firm, invested in a video game which depicts Venez...
Jul 10, 2006 / The Nation
Mexico’s Electoral Cliffhanger Mexico’s Electoral Cliffhanger
The fate of Mexico is undetermined at this hour, but this much we know:Don't take at face value what you read in the leading Americannewspapers about Mexico's cliffhanger election...
Jul 10, 2006 / The Nation
Abramoff Returns Abramoff Returns
Jack Abramoff lives! When's the last time you heard his name? Washington had almost forgotten the disgraced lobbyist. Luckily the Secret Service hadn't. New logs released over th...
Jul 10, 2006 / The Nation
The New American Cold War The New American Cold War
The cold war never really ended: Russia's continuing instability and weapons of mass destruction, combined with Washington's triumphalist foreign policies and US/NATO military buil...
Jul 10, 2006 / Stephen F. Cohen
Watada, the War and the Law Watada, the War and the Law
Bolstered by a Supreme Court ruling that rebuked the Bush Administration's excessive exercise of power, Lieut. Ehren Watada's pending court-martial could help restore the rule of l...
Jul 10, 2006 / Feature / Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith