Serious Questions for Samuel A. Alito Jr. Serious Questions for Samuel A. Alito Jr.
Questions for Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr.: What are the rights of an individual before the law? Are these rights any different from what Alito views as the rights of ...
Nov 1, 2005 / Editorial / Morton Mintz
Can Dems Say ‘Finito’ to ‘Scalito’? Can Dems Say ‘Finito’ to ‘Scalito’?
If the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court becomes the titanic battle that both sides in the judicial wars have been anticipating for years, Democrats must create a new...
Oct 31, 2005 / Editorial / David Corn
Did Cheney Know Plame Was Undercover? Did Cheney Know Plame Was Undercover?
The indictment of I. Lewis Libby indictment casts Vice President Dick Cheney in a key role in the CIA leak investigation: It suggests Cheney had reason to suspect Valerie Wilson wa...
Oct 31, 2005 / Feature / David Corn
Lessons From the Miers Debacle Lessons From the Miers Debacle
What have Bush and his allies learned from this sorry epidode? Intellectual substance matters. Executive privilege is not absolute. Roe v. Wade is a bear trap for the GOP.
Oct 28, 2005 / Editorial / Bruce Shapiro
Final Days: Only 39 Months to Go Final Days: Only 39 Months to Go
On Capitol Hill there's open warfare among various factions of the Republican Party. With midterm elections looming and Bush's approval ratings tumbling, the collapse of discipline...
Oct 27, 2005 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Another Miracle From Bill Frist Another Miracle From Bill Frist
The doctor who proved himself a master of distant diagosis has one more trick up his sleeve.
Oct 27, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Calvin Trillin
Minority/Majority Minority/Majority
The attempt to fashion a distinct Democratic identity was temporarily halted when Elaine Kamarck and William Galston published a self-serving call for Democrats to move to the "cen...
Oct 27, 2005 / Editorial / David Sirota
Conservative Crackup Conservative Crackup
Bush's lavish subsidies and reckless attempts to export democracy through the barrel of a gun violate conservative principles. Republican realists are finally catching on.
Oct 27, 2005 / Editorial / Eyal Press
Culture of Collusion Culture of Collusion
The deceit and misinformation evidenced in the CIA leak scandal is poison to an open society. We need a tough investigation of how the American people were misled on the Iraq war, ...
Oct 27, 2005 / Editorial / The Editors
Scott Ritter and Seymour Hersh: Iraq Confidential Scott Ritter and Seymour Hersh: Iraq Confidential
Iraq is a nation on fire, a conflagration of America's making that threatens to consume everything the nation stands for. How did we get there? How do we get out? Can we get out?
Oct 26, 2005 / Feature / The Nation