For Mothers, the US is Not Number One (Not Even Close) For Mothers, the US is Not Number One (Not Even Close)
Last week your humble correspondent learned, over a dry repast of catered chicken with some of our nation's most influential men, that unlike Canada and many other civilized democr...
May 13, 2007 / Liza Featherstone
Michael Moore Exposes ‘Sicko’ US Cuba Policy Michael Moore Exposes ‘Sicko’ US Cuba Policy
Michael Moore meet Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell's former chief of staff. I think you'd both agree that the current US policy toward Cuba is the "dumbest policy on...
May 12, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
While We Slept While We Slept
A new book on the history of Western complicity in Iraq takes an unsparing look at how the first Bush and Clinton administrations set the stage for disaster.
May 11, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stanley I. Kutler
Oh, Those Skinny Clavicles! Oh, Those Skinny Clavicles!
The New York Times' Style section is always good for a laugh -- nothing lights up my day like a breathlessly earnest piece on the new fanny pack masquerading as serious journalism....
May 11, 2007 / Lakshmi Chaudhry
Outsourcing the War Outsourcing the War
Testimony to Congress on the impact of private military contractors in Iraq.
May 11, 2007 / Jeremy Scahill
Immigrants Push Western Union to Share the Wealth Immigrants Push Western Union to Share the Wealth
Outraged at the 17 percent fees they are charged on money they wire home, immigrant workers are pressuring Western Union to reinvest the profits.
May 11, 2007 / Feature / Gabriel Thompson
Hillary, What Have You Done for Me Lately? Hillary, What Have You Done for Me Lately?
My 10-year-old son is triumphant because he thinks he has me in a bind. He knows, from frequent dinnertime conversations, that I'm keen on Obama. And he assumes, because I wear my ...
May 11, 2007 / Karen Houppert
A Browner Shade of Blair? Or Better? A Browner Shade of Blair? Or Better?
LONDON -- Prime Minister Tony Blair will not step down until late June. But, with his announcement that he is leaving politics after ten years as the leader of Britain's governmen...
May 11, 2007 / John Nichols
Spider-Man 3: Third Time’s (Not) the Charm Spider-Man 3: Third Time’s (Not) the Charm
Sam Raimi has loaded so many big ideas into Spider-Man 3, they drag this morality-soaked bag of kittens right down to the river's bottom.
May 10, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Night on Earth Night on Earth
After Dark, Haruki Murakami's edgy new novel, describes how the lives of a group of strangers intersect over the course of one night.
May 10, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Michael Wood