The Limits of Power: Questions for Alito The Limits of Power: Questions for Alito
Revelations of the Bush Administration's domestic spying program have sharply shifted the focus of Samuel Alito's Supreme Court confirmation hearings from domestic and social issue...
Jan 6, 2006 / Feature / Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith
Do the Crime, Do No Time Do the Crime, Do No Time
There ought to be a law about bribery in America, but there isn't--not a real one. Bribery is so central to our political culture that it's virtually impossible that any politician...
Jan 6, 2006 / Editorial / Nicholas von Hoffman
The President’s Measured Response to Criticism of His Secret Domestic Spying Operation The President’s Measured Response to Criticism of His Secret Domestic Spying Operation
Since I am Commander in Chief, My powers to spy or debrief Are limitless. That's my belief. So go somewhere else with your beef.
Jan 5, 2006 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Jack Gordon Jack Gordon
Jack Gordon, "the unabashedly liberal conscience of Florida's State Senate," was chosen majority leader at a time when his politics should have made him an anathema. His fight agai...
Jan 5, 2006 / Editorial / Molly Ivins
Ruling Class Warriors Ruling Class Warriors
House Republicans rammed through a budget bill in December that cuts $40 billion from domestic programs. Is there anyone of conscience in the Senate to defeat this?
Jan 5, 2006 / Editorial / Eyal Press
The Case Against Alito The Case Against Alito
Samuel Alito would swing the Supreme Court to a right-wing authoritarianism that is out of step with the public and the Constitution.
Jan 5, 2006 / Editorial / The Editors
A ‘Top Ten’ List of Bold Ideas A ‘Top Ten’ List of Bold Ideas
To take back the nation in the post-Bush era, start thinking now about some bold but plausible progressive reforms, from universal health insurance to free daycare and a shorter wo...
Jan 4, 2006 / Feature / Gar Alperovitz and Thad Williamson
La Vie de Bohème La Vie de Bohème
Drawing from the New York counterculture in which he immersed himself, Ted Berrigan's sonnets and other poems sing beautifully about being broken and graceful and tough.
Jan 4, 2006 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella
Dr. Fun Dr. Fun
Kenneth Koch was one of the merrier in the bunch known as the New York School of poets. But he was more than just a poet of humor. He sought the essential nature of human existence...
Jan 4, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Melanie Rehak
Abramoff’s Sordid World Abramoff’s Sordid World
The unfolding Jack Abramoff corruption scandal exposes the hypocrisy of the GOP "revolution," which promised to restore morality to Washington but instead sank deepinto a cesspool ...
Jan 4, 2006 / Column / Robert Scheer