Category: Politics

Hard Facts on the Ground—Daniel Levy is one of the more insightful progressive voices in Washington regarding Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, which are collapsing because of a disagreement over Israeli settlement policy. A British-born Israeli, Levy has worked as a policy advisor for Yossi Beilin when Beilin served as Israel’s minister of justice. He was a member […]

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Prophets of the Politics of Nihilism “There’s going to be a government shutdown just like in ’95 and ’96. But we’re going to win it this time and I’ll be fighting on your side.” —Republican political consultant Dick Morris, April 2010 “Stage one of the end of Obamaism will be a new Republican Congress in […]

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Cuccinelli In Court—In the September 1 issue we referred to the scientific critique that Virginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli included in a broad subpoena of the correspondence of climate scientist Michael Mann. In denying the subpoena, a circuit court judge in Virginia made it clear that he’s not buying Cuccinelli’s science. “The court has read […]

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Senator David Vitter easily defeated retired state Supreme Court Justice Chet Traylor and physician Nick J. Accardo in the August 28 Louisiana Republican primary. Both candidates had little money and little name recognition. But the one-term senator goes into the fall campaign with a number of political sins hanging around his neck. They include ties […]

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Redefining Terrorism—Long before right-wing opportunists began using the building of an Islamic center in Lower Manhattan to inflame public passions, federal law-enforcement was focused on a less conspicuous address. The “prayer house” on 1257 Siskiyou Blvd. in Ashland, Oregon, was owned by the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation of Oregon, a Muslim charity that in 2001 was […]

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