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Comeuppance in Cleveland

One tough question from an elderly gentleman in Cleveland punctured the President’s pretensions about the reasons for launching the disastrous Iraq war.

Robert Scheer

Learning to Love the Bomb

Could the world learn to live with a nuclear Iran? A new power equation of nuclear proliferation is emerging to challenge the Bush Administration’s bluster on the subject.

William Greider

Erasing Whiteness

If women expect to shed the cruel and calculating artifice of race in our lifetimes, we must contribute to the emerging generation of literature that deconstructs racial categories.

Silja J.A. Talvi

When Your Banker Takes Charge of Your Life

A flood of reader mail responding to last week’s column on the impact of rising levels of student debt shows what happens when your banker takes charge of your life.

Nicholas von Hoffman

The Normalcy of Fear

A delegation of Iraqi women is traveling the country in an effort to convey the grim realities of the US occupation.

Anja Tranovich and Rachel Corbett

In the Path of a Storm, Vets Protest a War

Veterans of Iraq and Vietnam marched from Mobile to New Orleans to mark the third anniversary of the Iraq War, and to call attention to the Bush Administratrion’s culture of incompentence, inhumanity and greed that has devastated Iraq and America’s Gulf Coast.

Christian Parenti

Dueling Over Delphi

When Delphi declared bankruptcy, cutting workers’ wages, pensions and healthcare, auto unions in Indiana drew the line. Now they are prepared to strike or take work-to-rule actions.

David Moberg

Keeping Gideon’s Promise

Montana is setting the stage for other states in its push to improve legal representation for the poor and to address the lack of competent public attorneys.

Eyal Press

Showdown on Immigration

After twenty years of inaction, the US Senate is considering sweeping immigration reform. But a push for quick action and the November elections may thwart the current bipartisan consensus.

Marc Cooper

Too Hot for New York

My Name Is Rachel Corrie was a big hit in London, but the New York Theatre Workshop backed off from producing the play. Why is it so hard for Americans to have a healthy debate about Palestinian human rights?

Philip Weiss

Tales of the Iraqian Nights

Robert Grossman

Judging Milosevic

Slobodan Milosevic died without a definitive judgment of his responsibility for war and crimes against humanity. Now others will judge him, precisely what he wanted to avoid.

Slavenka Drakulic

Ending Nonproliferation

President Bush’s dangerous deal to deliver nuclear technology to India is a significant breach of the nonproliferation treaty and will make nuclear war more likely.

Michael T. Klare

Patriot Act Post-Mortem

The failure of a complaisant, Republican-controlled Congress to enact meaningful changes to the Patriot Act means that midterm elections are the only true path to reform.

David Cole

An American Inquisition?

The case of an architect who lost lucrative contracts because of his interest in the Palestinian cause underscores how Americans are becoming inured to enforced patriotism and ideological litmus tests.

The Editors

Iraq: The Democrats’ Dilemma

With Bush’s popularity dropping and Iraq in chaos, Democrats must provide clear leadership without making themselves targets of political assassination by the right. How can they do that when the master story in the media depicts a party in disarray?

Eric Alterman

Truth or Consequences

OK, kids: With conservatives on the hunt for dangerous left-wing academics, take this SAT (Save America from Treachery) test. See if you can tell the difference between a terrorist and a truth-teller. First prize: A three-day getaway in Baghdad. Fail and go to jail.

Patricia J. Williams

George W. Bush’s Approach to Maintaining Constitutional Rule in a Democracy Through a Series of Checks and Balances

Bush’s approach to maintaining control: Can you say Caine Mutiny?

Calvin Trillin

Experimental Art

Alan Lightman makes scientists into artists in his new book The Discoveries, promoting original journal articles as “the great novels and symphonies of science.”

Joshua Foer

Crowds and Power

In Death in the Haymarket James Green uses the story of the Haymarket riot to expose the hopes and fears of nineteenth-century America, a nation living on the knife-edge of social catastrophe.

Steve Fraser

Three Who Made a Revolution

Rachel Carson, Betty Friedan and Jane Jacobs opened vast new possibilities for social transformation by writing about widespread attacks on nature, women and the poor.

Rebecca Solnit

Too Hot for New York

My Name Is Rachel Corrie was a big hit in London, but the New York Theatre Workshop backed off from producing the play. Why is it so hard for Americans to have a healthy debate about Palestinian human rights?

Philip Weiss

Hatchet Man’s Heresy Hunt…

New York City

Michael Kazin, Daniel Lazare, Brian Morton and Todd Gitlin