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January 8, 2007 Issue

Ian Williams closes the book on Kofi Annan’s tenure at the United Nations, Mohamad Bazzi considers Hezbollah’s future, Omer Bart…

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Editorial

Rule of Noose

Justice and reconciliation for the victims of Saddam Hussein will not be found at the end of a hangman's rope.

Bruce Shapiro

‘We Got To Do Better’

Looking at the longstanding debate in the black community over personal responsibility through the lens of hotghettomess.com.

Amy Alexander

Get Carter

The flap over Jimmy Carter's new book underscores that the Israel lobby in the United States exists to serve only the interests of the Israeli right wing.

Chris Hedges

The Urge to Surge

Democrats in Congress must remember that their midterm victory was a clear mandate to reverse Bush's war policy.

The Editors

The Last Lennon File

The controversy over newly released files on John Lennon is less about Lennon than about excessive government secrecy.

Jon Wiener

Column

An Act of Barbarism

Someone has to say it: The hanging of Saddam Hussein was an act of barbarism that mocks all of Bush's posturing on Iraq.

Robert Scheer

Now You Tell Us, Jerry

Now that he is safely dead, good guy Jerry Ford has come out against the war.

Nicholas von Hoffman

And the Beat Goes On…

A new book examining civil rights coverage demonstrates that the best reporting sometimes requires journalists to toss objectivity out the window.

Eric Alterman

A New Policy for Iraq

Calvin Trillin

Letters

HEY, MISTER TRIANGLE MAN...

Westport, Conn.

Alexander Cockburn and Our Readers

Feature

Heck-of -a-Job Myers?

The ICE chief's comments about immigration and unions raise troubling questions. Congress should seek answers.

Rick Perlstein

The Consequences of Killing Saddam

More violence, waning chances for reconciliation and a trove of secrets taken to the grave.

Bob Dreyfuss

Questioning Capital Punishment

As doubts grow about the humanity and constitutionality of lethal injection, California, Florida and Maryland have shut down executions. America's flight from the death penalty co...

Bruce Shapiro

Memo to Dems: About Those Earmarks

As Democrats clean up abuse of earmarks, they can't ignore the ones that masquerade as targeted tax breaks.

Chris Hayes

The Irrelevance of Joe Lieberman

The fall and rise of Joe Lieberman was one of the major political events of 2006. But in 2007, Beltway and netroots pundits agree, he will be as irrelevant as George W. Bush.

Ari Melber

View From the Future

The end of oil and the rise of warming seas reveal a world made small and a horde of fallen dinosaurs.

Rebecca Solnit

Annan’s Principled Pragmatism

Although Kofi Annan's tenure was shadowed by political catfights, he leaves the United Nations as one of its most successful secretary generals.

Ian Williams

People’s Revolt in Lebanon

By empowering the dispossessed, Hezbollah has become a formidable force that is threatening the US-backed Lebanese government.

Mohamad Bazzi

Lt. Ehren Watada: Resister

Facing a showdown court-martial for refusing to serve in an illegal and unjust war, Lieut. Ehren Watada has become a flashpoint for the antiwar movement.

Marc Cooper

About Face

In the most significant movement of dissident soldiers since Vietnam, nearly 1,000 active-duty officers and enlisted personnel have petitioned the government to withdraw from Iraq.

Marc Cooper