Minority/Majority

While Rahm Emanuel sticks with a "stay-the-course" approach, despite polls that show Americans want out of Iraq, Carl Levin becames the latest high-level leader to make a compelli...

David Sirota

How to Lose an Election

A new report by Democratic strategists urges the party to aim toward the center. But what meaningful difference will that make?

Jonathan Schell

In Fact…

GERMANY'S MAJORS IN MERGER

The Editors

Bono Meets Dr. Shock

It's easy to scoff at a rock star like Bono pairing up with economist Jeffrey Sachs. But their tireless lobbying for debt relief for the poorest nations could make a real differenc...

Doug Henwood

Scamming the States

Companies like Boeing, Dell and Daimler-Chrysler know how to extort tax cuts and subsidies from states eager to keep jobs from fleeing. But taxpayers, community groups and even a S...

Greg LeRoy

Squeezing the Have-Nots

Fitful efforts to rebuild the Gulf Coast unfold against a backdrop of looming economic disaster: rising unemployment and interest rates, misplaced priorities and a recession that w...

William Greider

Torture on the Hill

War crimes are the darkest expression of the moral degradation that permeates the White House. Bush's threat to veto the Senate's anti-torture measure frames a crisis of law and le...

The Editors

Protest and Pushback on Campus

Student protests against the presence of military recruiters on campus are on the rise. So are angry--sometimes violent--pushbacks from conservative students and campus police.

Ryan Grim

The Young Chickenhawks

Young Republican activists on campus love George W. Bush and zealously support the war. But are they willing to fight? Not really.

Clarisse Profilet

A Misguided Crusade

The New York Times exposes its own misguided and unethical campaign to make a terrible reporter a First Amendment saint.

Robert Scheer

If Not Miers, Who?

Dear Karl Rove: Just in case Harriet Miers doesn't work out, why not nominate me?

Katha Pollitt

The Virtues of Gas Guzzling

Gas-guzzling can be a revolutionary experience, like puffing Montecristo cigars, now that Citgo's 1,800 gas stations and eight oil refineries passed into the hands of Venezuela's n...

Alexander Cockburn

Reassuring the Right

Calvin Trillin

Letters

OH GEORGE, POOR GEORGE...

Camarillo, Calif.

Your October 3 cover almost made me feel sorry for George W. Bush. Now cut that out!

Sasha Abramsky and Our Readers and Lee Siegel