Kids Kids
Spring Awakening is a highly politicized play that explores the sexuality of young teenagers and the adult heartache that can accompany it.
Dec 20, 2006 / Books & the Arts / The Nation
Faraway, So Close Faraway, So Close
In Five Germanys I Have Known--part memoir, part extended rumination on German-Jewish identity--Fritz Stern revisits his family's past and finds that he has never been quite at hom...
Dec 20, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Omer Bartov
Parasites of Plunder? Parasites of Plunder?
Hitler's Beneficiaries advances a controversial, deeply flawed argument that Germans failed to revolt against the Nazis because Hitler established a welfare state built on plunder.
Dec 20, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Richard J. Evans
People’s Revolt in Lebanon People’s Revolt in Lebanon
By empowering the dispossessed, Hezbollah has become a formidable force that is threatening the US-backed Lebanese government.
Dec 20, 2006 / Feature / Mohamad Bazzi
About Face About Face
In the most significant movement of dissident soldiers since Vietnam, nearly 1,000 active-duty officers and enlisted personnel have petitioned the government to withdraw from Iraq.
Dec 20, 2006 / Feature / Marc Cooper
And the Beat Goes On… And the Beat Goes On…
A new book examining civil rights coverage demonstrates that the best reporting sometimes requires journalists to toss objectivity out the window.
Dec 20, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
A New Policy for Iraq A New Policy for Iraq
Why don't we just ask the wise men?
Dec 20, 2006 / Column / Calvin Trillin
‘We Got To Do Better’ ‘We Got To Do Better’
Looking at the longstanding debate in the black community over personal responsibility through the lens of hotghettomess.com.
Dec 20, 2006 / Amy Alexander
The Last Lennon File The Last Lennon File
The controversy over newly released files on John Lennon is less about Lennon than about excessive government secrecy.
Dec 20, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
Oil Law Oil Law
Listening to the President's press conference just now, something caught my ear. In discussing the new "strategy forward," in Iraq, Bush mentioned that a key to unifying the count...
Dec 20, 2006 / The Nation