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Alexander Cockburn excoriates electorally challenged Democrats, Marc Cooper measures the impact of the Minutemen, Stuart Klawans reviews Sco…
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Editorial
Let us follow the example set by the judges and prosecutors who pursued
justice in the Nuremberg Trials to lead America back to a reverence for
the rule of law and the common good.
Sen. Christopher Dodd
HAM-HANDED SMITHFIELD
The Editors
Famine is at its worst when people waste away and die. But there is
another kind of famine: the death of the human soul--the emptiness and
senseless cynicism in this country that h...
Walter Mosley
Philip Roth and Joan Didion have each written compellingly about death,
but their insights about dying and mourning signify a retreat from the
world rather than an embrace of the f...
Richard Goldstein
Bob Woodward is late to the party: His new book, State of Denial,
catches up to the story of the Iraq debacle that other journalists have
been reporting for years.
David Corn
What's more important to Congress: America's standing in the world and
the rule of law, or partisan advantage in the midterm elections?
David Cole
America needs a new Congress--the question is, Will Americans hold the
GOP to account for their corruption, ineptitude and irresponsibility?
The Editors
Column
Instead of pursuing real diplomacy with North Korea, the Bush Administration chose a my-way-or-the-highway approach. Rather than face up to the mess they made, it's easier to blame...
Robert Scheer
It shows how hapless and shallow Democrats are that they show so little electoral joy in a principled challenge to GOP rule. Instead we get tactical theatrics about whatever comes ...
Katha Pollitt
America can't talk about the legalization of torture or about Iraq, where soldiers are raping girls and shooting families at close range. It stands to reason they are now obsessed ...
Alexander Cockburn
Feature
American Jews are liberals and support Democrats. Why, then, do Jewish
organizations, supported by contributions of liberal Jews, strategize
with Republicans on how to smear these ...
Eric Alterman
If President Bush and the Republican Congress would close the loopholes on tax
cheats--especially the superrich--there would be ample money to improve
the nation's public schools.
John C. Fager
As the world reacts to news of North Korea's underground nuclear test, a crucial anniversary is observed: Twenty years ago at the Reykjavik Summit, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorb...
Richard Falk and Mary Kaldor and Randall Caroline Forsberg and George Perkovich
As the fight against the Administration's policies on torture and the terror detainees shifts to the Supreme Court, there is reason to be confident that the Justices will again rei...
Jonathan Hafetz
As election day approaches, don't expect a reasoned discussion of
economic policy between the two parties. A barrage of
quips and one-liners have taken the place of detail and fact...
Robert L. Borosage
At a time when the federal government has failed to do its job, state
attorneys general are asserting their authority to protect the public
interest.
John Nichols
If current trends hold, Democratic governors will soon be popping up all
over the country, and with them comes a greater opportunity to challenge
the Bush Administration.
John Nichols
As Democratic Congressional candidates in Arizona embrace comprehensive immigration reform, conservative Republicans are no longer winning on their "militarize the border" message.
Marc Cooper
As Senator George Allen's faux-populist campaign devolves into a series of racial embarrassments, Virginia Democrat Jim Webb's unlikely campaign is surging, thanks in large part to...
Bob Moser
Books & the Arts
Let us follow the example set by the judges and prosecutors who pursued
justice in the Nuremberg Trials to lead America back to a reverence for
the rule of law and the common good.
Sen. Christopher Dodd
Martin Scorsese is one of those great artists who not only expresses
emotion through film but also invents it. With The Departed,
he proves why he's one of the best.
Stuart Klawans
An intellectual biography of Richard Hofstadter rides a wave of nostalgia for this artful historian and liberal icon of the 1950s and '60s.
Jon Wiener
A review of Frank Rich's The Greatest Story Ever Sold and two
books on I.F. Stone shows how media politics have changed since the cold war. Now it's all about repeating the ...
John Powers
Famine is at its worst when people waste away and die. But there is
another kind of famine: the death of the human soul--the emptiness and
senseless cynicism in this country that h...
Walter Mosley
Philip Roth and Joan Didion have each written compellingly about death,
but their insights about dying and mourning signify a retreat from the
world rather than an embrace of the f...
Richard Goldstein
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