Iraq: Money for Nothing
One of the most important news stories in 2004 is where the $18.6 billion in US taxpayer money that Congress voted to spend on Iraqi reconstruction...
Maria Tomchick

From One Brink to Another
Barely a week into the new year and we've already reached a benchmark of sorts for bizarre, unexpected, and very good news. And no, I'm not...
Geov Parrish

Democracy on the Cheap: The Failure of America's Electoral Infrastructure
After the 2000 presidential race, many Americans saw new voting technology as the obvious means to avoid the millions of votes lost due to voter...
Steven Hill and Rob Richie

Bush Goes South
The Bush administration opened 2004 with a broad rhetorical salvo toward Latin American leaders not sufficiently heeding Washington's behavioral...
Troy Skeels

My Friend Aznar
Jose Maria Aznar, or "my friend Ansar"--as mispoken by George W. Bush--is the symbol of right-wing politics in Spain. A tax-inspector who became...
Miguel Furlock

With Friends Like These, US Enemies Don't Seem As Bad
The media made much of President Bush's "Axis of Evil"--much as administration "spinners" had hoped. The excessive deionization of the admittedly...
Ivan Eland

Mars Mission Wastes Millions
What costs $820 million dollars and goes thud? Answer: NASA's six-wheeled roving robot. When the taxpayer funded rover landed safely on Mars late...
Kenn Gividen

With Us or Solaris
According to senior officials in the Bush Administration, the President is planning a reinvigorated space program, including the establishment of a...
Troy Skeels

Losing our Religion
In a recent op-ed piece, my friend Jim Wallis noted that while a vast majority of Americans see themselves as religious, the politicians who seem to...
Johann Christoph Arnold

Things That Happened on New Year's Day That You Never Had to Memorize in School
1781: Many wounded as mutinous Pennsylvania Revolutionary War troops at Morristown, New Jersey rush from their huts, seize arms, ammunition, and...