If Not Miers, Who? If Not Miers, Who?
Dear Karl Rove: Just in case Harriet Miers doesn't work out, why not nominate me?
Oct 13, 2005 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Reassuring the Right Reassuring the Right
Though her style is not dramatic, Harriet Miers is definitely enough of a fanatic to sit on the Bush Supreme Court.
Oct 13, 2005 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Scamming the States Scamming the States
Companies like Boeing, Dell and Daimler-Chrysler know how to extort tax cuts and subsidies from states eager to keep jobs from fleeing. But taxpayers, community groups and even a S...
Oct 13, 2005 / Editorial / Greg LeRoy
Torture on the Hill Torture on the Hill
War crimes are the darkest expression of the moral degradation that permeates the White House. Bush's threat to veto the Senate's anti-torture measure frames a crisis of law and le...
Oct 13, 2005 / Editorial / The Editors
With Friends Like This… With Friends Like This…
An endorsement from James Dobson is scary enough, but the vituperative attack on Harriet Miers by the right raises other questions about why some conservatives are agitated about h...
Oct 11, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer
Ten Questions for Harriet Miers Ten Questions for Harriet Miers
Corporate power and money control our lives and our politics as never before. As the Senate Judiciary Committee prepares for Harriet Miers's nomination hearings, here are ten lega...
Oct 11, 2005 / Editorial / Morton Mintz
Communities Without Borders Communities Without Borders
Guest worker programs are a threat to the communities Central American migrants forge as they sweep across the US. These programs undermine the economic rights of immigrants and na...
Oct 6, 2005 / Feature / David Bacon
Blank Check for Bush? Blank Check for Bush?
Recent rulings upholding the right of the executive branch to jail and try terror suspects in military tribunals raise questions about whether the judiciary can keep presidential p...
Oct 6, 2005 / Editorial / David Cole
Crony Constitutionalism Crony Constitutionalism
Democrats have a chance to stand up for competence, civil liberties and the integrity of the Supreme Court by challenging Harriet Miers's lack of credentials and blocking Bush from...
Oct 6, 2005 / Editorial / The Editors
From Lynndie England to Shaquille O’Neal From Lynndie England to Shaquille O’Neal
Americans are becoming more hostile by the day to the war in Iraq, the nation is demoralized over official abandonment of the victims of the Gulf Coast storm, but the Democratic Pa...
Sep 29, 2005 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn