Larry Summers’s Ghosts Larry Summers’s Ghosts
Maybe it's not surprising that media coverage of Larry Summers's resignation as Harvard University's President has focused on his personal style. After all, Summers--by most accou...
Feb 22, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Olympics We Missed The Olympics We Missed
The Winter Olympics are to NBC what icebergs were to the Titanic. Jingoistic, condescending coverage missed the real drama.
Feb 22, 2006 / Column / Dave Zirin
Victor Navasky is Dangerous Victor Navasky is Dangerous
Larry Summers resigned. Alan Dershowitz called it an "academic coup d'etat" engineered by the "radical, hard-left element" at Harvard. He worried the PC-cops wo...
Feb 22, 2006 / Richard Kim
Band of Brothers Revisited Band of Brothers Revisited
Shortly after Katha raised complaints about the largely male composition of the Band of Brothers--the veterans running for Congress as Dems in 2006--the Washington Post ran a front...
Feb 22, 2006 / Ari Berman
The Rule of Law versus The Rule of Cheney The Rule of Law versus The Rule of Cheney
In the moment of executive excess, when abuses of the powers of the presidency and -- thanks to Dick Cheney's contributions to the crisis -- the vice presidency are so threatening...
Feb 22, 2006 / John Nichols
Looking for Votes in All the Wrong Places Looking for Votes in All the Wrong Places
In 2004, the Bush-Cheney campaign asked conservative activists to send them their church membership directories for political organizing purposes. Although most religious leaders...
Feb 22, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
In Defense of Free Thought In Defense of Free Thought
An Austrian court sends a crackpot historian to prison for denying the Holocaust; why shouldn't Muslims protesting the Muhammad cartoons question a double standard?
Feb 22, 2006 / Column / Robert Scheer
California Death Penalty Melt-Down California Death Penalty Melt-Down
It's getting rather macabre up in San Quentin's death chamber. For two nights in a row convicted killer Michael Morales was scheduled to die by lethal injection. Two times he didn'...
Feb 22, 2006 / Marc Cooper
Alice Walton’s Fig Leaf Alice Walton’s Fig Leaf
Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton is on a buying spree, filling her Arkansas museum with America's cultural treasures--a fig leaf that seeks to cover Wal-Mart's naked greed and exploit...
Feb 21, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Solnit
Revisionist History Revisionist History
Francis Fukuyama's 1992 book The End of History was arguably the most influential post-Cold War neoconservative tract. But for some time Fukuyama's been uneasy with his fellow neoc...
Feb 21, 2006 / Ari Berman