Bush’s Selective Perception Bush’s Selective Perception
President Bush's address to the UN General Assembly was less disdainful than earlier speeches, but it shined a light on the President's willful blindness to the complexity of the p...
Sep 21, 2006 / Ian Williams
Compromising Justice Compromising Justice
President Bush and the three Republican Senators opposing his efforts to contravene the Geneva accords have reached an agreement on legislation to clarify which interrogation tech...
Sep 21, 2006 / Peter Rothberg
Dead Flowers Dead Flowers
Reviews of Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia and Kelly Reichardt's Old Joy.
Sep 20, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Father Knows Best Father Knows Best
Have you attacked the Founding Fathers lately? Know anyone who has? Gordon Wood knows you're out there, on a campaign to dehumanize Washington, Jefferson and their peers.
Sep 20, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Nicholas Guyatt
Laundry Laundry
Our cat, who's over nineteen, likes to sleep on the massed softness of a pile of shirts, two, three, four, flung on the floor but soon to be gathered up
Sep 20, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Rachel Hadas
Congress’s Most Corrupt Congress’s Most Corrupt
Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington (CREW), my favorite watchdog group, recently issued a list of the 20 most corrupt members of Congress. Last year, CREW named ...
Sep 20, 2006 / The Nation
Hell of a Times Hell of a Times
A nasty succession battle is brewing at the conservative Washington Times, its newsroom abuzz with allegations of racism, sexism and unprofessional conduct.
Sep 20, 2006 / Feature / Max Blumenthal
Letters Letters
Jonathan Schell's "Too Late for Empire" drew much praise from readers [Aug. 14/21].
Sep 20, 2006 / Our Readers
Thank You, America Thank You, America
Watch most TV channels and if Iraq is the subject, you see bombs going off. You hear grisly tales of tortured Iraqis slaughtered in the internecine strife that's gripped that cou...
Sep 20, 2006 / The Nation
Science Fiction Science Fiction
Richard Powers's The Echo Maker speaks volumes about neuroscience, nature and environmental degradation. But it says little about what it means to be alive.
Sep 20, 2006 / Books & the Arts / William Deresiewicz