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The Many Faces of Dr. Coburn

He’s a far-right baby doctor. His own chief of staff says he’s clueless about the law. Meet Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn, who’ll help shape the US Supreme Court.

Max Blumenthal

Etan Thomas Rises to the Occasion

Washington Wizards power forward Etan Thomas is using his swoosh-adorned status as a sports star to speak out on the gross negligence of the Bush Administration.

Dave Zirin

Wal-Mart to the Rescue!

For once, Wal-Mart is acting like a hero, with speedy delivery of water and supplies to Hurricane Katrina victims. If it could only act that way every day.

Liza Featherstone

New Orleans: Raze or Rebuild?

Despite persistent calls from the right to raze the ruined city, gritty storm survivors from New Orleans to Gulfport and Houston begin to put their lives together again.

Christian Parenti

The Patriot Act on Trial

We won the cold war without throwing out the right of Americans to be secure in their homes, without throwing out the Fourth Amendment.

David Sarasohn

Memorial Chauvinism

The controversy over the World Trade Center cultural institutions is one more episode in a long, often bitter dispute over how 9/11 should be remembered and understood.

Alisa Solomon

Teaching 9/11

How do you tell a student the story of September 11?

Jon Wiener

Not Your Homeland

A look at the suffering endured at Krome Detention Center in Miami, a cross between Alcatraz and hell.

Edwidge Danticat

Terror on the Inner Border

Even in tiny outposts like Havre, Montana, a profound cultural and psychological shift has occurred since the events of 9/11.

Sasha Abramsky

The Fear of the Liberals

How could liberals believe the most reactionary President since William McKinley could and would export democracy to Iraq?

Corey Robin

America’s Imaginary Frontier

America’s narcissism and willful blindness to its own moral failings have been placed in sharp relief as the nation fitfully responds to the needs of storm victims.

Norman Birnbaum

New Orleans: Voices in the Storm

The chronicle of an unfolding catastrophe, as told by the victims of Hurricane Katrina, the bureaucrats, the rescuers, the journalists and the politicians.

The Editors

William Rehnquist

William Rehnquist showed little regard for the social consequences that followed his unrelenting application of conservative legal theory.

Bruce Shapiro

The Big Easy Dies Hard

At first glance New Orleans looks like a cross between a giant conceptual art installation or the set of a cold war disaster movie.

Christian Parenti

Looting the Black Poor

New Orleans is the classic tale of two cities: one showy, middle-class and white; the other poor, downtrodden and low-income black.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

FEMA: Confederacy of Dunces

FEMA enjoyed bipartisan praise during the 1990s under President Clinton. By the time Hurricane Katrina roared into the Gulf, the Bush Administration had dismantled it.

Jon Elliston

The Disaster President

The incompetence revealed by the response to Hurricane Katrina can be traced to a twenty-five-year project, begun in the Reagan era, of discrediting government.

The Editors

Surf’s Up, Dude!

Steve Brodner

Bush Is Fooling Nobody Now

Long fooled by the Bush image machine, Americans now understand that this Administration can only deliver spin, not substance; photo ops, not action.

Robert Scheer

Let the People Rebuild New Orleans

Let the evacuees of New Orleans take the lead in determining how the billions of dollars in reconstruction funds are used to rebuild their lives and their city.

Naomi Klein

Found in the Flood

The most remarkable aspect of the media’s treatment of the hurricane coverage was the return of the poor, in coverage that was neither condescending nor condemnatory.

Eric Alterman

The View From Lott’s Porch

Some storm victims evacuated from New Orleans were “sorted” by age, race or gender. Is breaking up families and prioritizing by race any way to deal with disaster?

Patricia J. Williams

President Inert As City Goes Under

Such a tough hombre: When the hurrincane hit, Bush did a 9/11 reprise.

Calvin Trillin

Out of Touch on ‘The OC’

What makes Fox’s The OC so addictive is its California-kissed story lines and appealing characters. But what is it about women the show doesn’t understand?

Christine Smallwood

America’s Imaginary Frontier

America’s narcissism and willful blindness to its own moral failings have been placed in sharp relief as the nation fitfully responds to the needs of storm victims.

Norman Birnbaum

A Continent for the Taking

What to make of The Constant Gardener, a movie focused on Europeans set in Africa, the return of Terry Gilliam and the New York City-set Keane?

Stuart Klawans

Love and Betrayal in Colonial Africa

Abdulrazak Gurnah’s seventh book, Desertion, revisits the theme of exile and expands it to relationships—between lovers, between families, between countries.

Laila Lalami

Robert Kaplan: Empire Without Apologies

In his new book, Robert Kaplan proposes that the antidote to anarchy is empire, policed by soldiers holding an assault rifle in one hand and candy bars in the other.

Andrew J. Bacevich

Desert Storm

This might be a good time for the Bush Administration to step up its reading on Saudi Arabia, starting with these three books.

Milton Viorst

Memorial Chauvinism

The controversy over the World Trade Center cultural institutions is one more episode in a long, often bitter dispute over how 9/11 should be remembered and understood.

Alisa Solomon

Letters

RECONNECTING TO REALITY

Our Readers and Andrew J. Bacevich