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October 17, 2005 Issue
Liza Featherstone reports on last week’s antiwar demonstration in Washington, DC, Sasha Abramsky travels to rural California to assess…
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Editorial
Darwin's discoveries about evolution never argued
against the existence of God. And the theory of "intelligent design" is
a dangerous attempt to undermine science and justify a lit...
Dr. Marc Siegel
What's really shocking about Bill Bennett's public
fantasies of reducing crime by aborting black babies is the ease with which conservative critics cast lawlessness in racial terms...
Mark Sorkin
Three senators caved and supported the
nomination of John G. Roberts Jr. as Supreme Court Chief Justice. But
one lawmaker, banking on the public's cynicism of the oil industry,
wan...
David Sirota
Critics have attacked Gulf Coast reconstruction, but
the system--or at least Bush's system--is working just fine. Just ask
the usual suspects who are raking in the cash.
The Editors
The US military is keeping the ongoing hunger strike
and forced feedings of Guantanamo Bay under wraps. And an apathetic
American media is showing no interest in exposing the situa...
Clive Stafford Smith
Last week's antiwar rally in Washington sent a
single, unequivocal message: At home and abroad, the Bush
Administration is a complete failure.
Liza Featherstone
Scientists universally recognize the devastating
effects of global warming, including its possible role in creating
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. It's time for skeptics to listen up...
Mark Hertsgaard
Before 9/11, the Bush Administration thought tax breaks and environmental deregulation would solve the energy crisis. They were wrong. Now it's time for policies that promote cons...
The Editors
Tom DeLay's indictment on criminal conspiracy charges comes at a moment of acute public awareness of the culture of corruption the GOP has created. What happens next is up to the D...
Ari Berman
Column
Faced with an historic opportunity to give gay couples equal protection under the law, Arnold Schwarzenegger proved he was made of bendable plastic.
Robert Scheer
Why does the New York Times feel compelled to perpetuate the
myth that smart, striving women are increasingly opting out of a career
to be stay-at-home moms?
Katha Pollitt
Americans are becoming more hostile by the day to the war in Iraq,
the nation is demoralized over official abandonment of the victims of
the Gulf Coast storm, but the Democratic Pa...
Alexander Cockburn
Feature
New Orleans did not die an accidental death--it was murdered by
deliberate design and planned neglect. Here are twenty-five urgent
questions from the people who live in a city subm...
Mike Davis and Anthony Fontenot
While his ideological style may be rough, is Iran's newly elected
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the fire-breathing conservative that the
mainstream Western media makes of him?
Negar Azimi
What do you do if you want to profit from the
everyday aches and pains of human existence? Invent a disease, then
convince people they need drugs to cure it.
Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels
With religious school vouchers and public displays of the Ten
Commandments on government monuments, the United States is following Europe's path to a melding of Christianity and th...
Richard Alba and Nancy Foner
Unless the federal government does something now,
rising gas prices have the potential to break the blue-collar backbone
of many American towns.
Sasha Abramsky
Books & the Arts
New Orleans did not die an accidental death--it was murdered by
deliberate design and planned neglect. Here are twenty-five urgent
questions from the people who live in a city subm...
Mike Davis and Anthony Fontenot
The undulating monoliths in architect Peter Eisenman's Holocaust
memorial in Berlin are more banal than beautiful--which suits Eisenman
fine.
Arthur C. Danto
Although The Aesthetics of Resistance delves into leftist
notions of art and class struggle, this account of an anti-Nazi youth
group in Germany seems outdated now.
Noah Isenberg
A recent surge of novels and memoirs reveals for the
first time the ways in which Germans suffered from Allied "total war"
strategy during World War II.
Mark M. Anderson
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