Democracy for Sale Democracy for Sale
A trove of new documents detailing the corruption and influence-peddling by Jack Abramoff, Ralph Reed and Tom DeLay is sweeping the high-minded prophets of the Republican revolutio...
Dec 7, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer
Killing the Messenger Killing the Messenger
It's one thing for our State Department to plant phony stories in the media or jam broadcasts in Cuba. It's quite another for conservative policy analyst Frank Gaffney bolster's Ge...
Dec 1, 2005 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Reprehensible Reprehensible
Dick Cheney channels Nat King Cole in an unforgettable rendition of the meaning of the word "reprehensible."
Dec 1, 2005 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Abramoff Effect The Abramoff Effect
The controversy surrounding conservative lobbyist Jack Abramoff is creating headaches for red-state and swing-state Republicans and opportunities for Democrats to turn a national ...
Dec 1, 2005 / Editorial / John Nichols
Anatomy of a Victory Anatomy of a Victory
George W. Bush's plan to privatize Social Security is dead, thanks to a remarkable mobilization by progressive groups. Much can be learned from the way The Campaign for America's F...
Dec 1, 2005 / Editorial / The Editors
Can the Democrats Win the Ground War at Home? Can the Democrats Win the Ground War at Home?
Progressive groups that mobilized for the 2004 elections are now dismissed as failures. But though they were unable to defeat Bush, grassroots activists are creating waves across t...
Nov 30, 2005 / Feature / Chris Hayes
Bush’s Iraq Outdoes Saddam Bush’s Iraq Outdoes Saddam
Ethnic cleansing, chemical weapons, self-appointed executioners: Sound familiar? The US occupation in Iraq has created conditions just as bad--if not worse--than Saddam Hussein's r...
Nov 30, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer
Did Bush Really Want to Bomb Al Jazeera? Did Bush Really Want to Bomb Al Jazeera?
Given the Administration's record of attacking Al Jazeera verbally and militarily, is it conceivable that President Bush tried to convince Tony Blair to bomb its international head...
Nov 23, 2005 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill
Cheney’s Trouble with the Truth Cheney’s Trouble with the Truth
No other modern politician has come so close as Dick Cheney has to perfecting the theater of the absurd. Even as he protests his innocence of lying about matters of state, he lies ...
Nov 23, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer
The Truth About the War The Truth About the War
The truth about the Iraq war may be clear to John Murtha and 60 percent of the American people, but not to the three Democratic senators interested in becoming President in 2008.
Nov 23, 2005 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn