Not Since Nixon Not Since Nixon
More than three decades have passed since a President nominated someone without judicial experience to serve on the US Supreme Court. The last such nominations--those of William...
Oct 3, 2005 / John Nichols
Harriet Miers: Supreme Court Choice With Few Footprints Harriet Miers: Supreme Court Choice With Few Footprints
Here we go again. Another pick for the Supreme Court without much--or, in this case, any--judicial experience. And that will make it hard for senators--or a...
Oct 3, 2005 / David Corn
25 Questions About the Murder of New Orleans 25 Questions About the Murder of New Orleans
New Orleans did not die an accidental death--it was murdered by deliberate design and planned neglect. Here are twenty-five urgent questions from the people who live in a city subm...
Sep 30, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Mike Davis and Anthony Fontenot
Indicting the President’s Policies Indicting the President’s Policies
In Washington, where it is exceeding difficult to get the political players or the press corps to pay attention to more than one story at once, no0 one would suggest that it was "...
Sep 30, 2005 / John Nichols
A CIA-Did-It Defense for Scooter in the Plame Leak Case? A CIA-Did-It Defense for Scooter in the Plame Leak Case?
When you already have a fall guy, use him--especially if he's a dead man.
Could that be the legal strategy of I. Lewis Libby (a.k.a. Scooter), Vice ...
Sep 30, 2005 / David Corn
Sweet Victory: Desegregation Works Sweet Victory: Desegregation Works
As Jonathan Kozol points out in his new book Shame of the Nation, the promise of Brown v. Board of Education remains unfulfilled. Thanks largely to a spate of Rehnquist Court deci...
Sep 30, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Mute Point Mute Point
The undulating monoliths in architect Peter Eisenman's Holocaust memorial in Berlin are more banal than beautiful--which suits Eisenman fine.
Sep 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Fighting the Abyss Fighting the Abyss
Although The Aesthetics of Resistance delves into leftist notions of art and class struggle, this account of an anti-Nazi youth group in Germany seems outdated now.
Sep 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Noah Isenberg
Crime and Punishment Crime and Punishment
A recent surge of novels and memoirs reveals for the first time the ways in which Germans suffered from Allied "total war" strategy during World War II.
Sep 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Mark M. Anderson
Letter From Iran Letter From Iran
While his ideological style may be rough, is Iran's newly elected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the fire-breathing conservative that the mainstream Western media makes of him?
Sep 29, 2005 / Feature / Negar Azimi