Brass Tacks Brass Tacks
"Do what has to be done" is the motto of the investigative arm of the US military. But when the understaffed institution regularly loses evidence and delays autopsies, it does too ...
Dec 8, 2005 / Feature / Tara McKelvey
The Torture Administration The Torture Administration
Despite what we know of history, it comes as a shock to discover that American leaders would open the way for torture of prisoners, that the President would fight legislation prohi...
Dec 8, 2005 / Feature / Anthony Lewis
Spring Hill: Another Utopia Bites the Dust Spring Hill: Another Utopia Bites the Dust
General Motors is dimming the headlights on its industrial utopia in Spring Hill, Tennessee. The cutback at the visionary Saturn plant, where workers and managers once shared decis...
Dec 7, 2005 / Feature / Nicholas von Hoffman
The Silencing of Carlos Delgado The Silencing of Carlos Delgado
The New York Mets' squelching of first baseman Carlos Delgado's longstanding protest of the war in Iraq during the seventh-inning stretch speaks volumes about how the rules of the ...
Dec 7, 2005 / Feature / Dave Zirin
Democracy for Sale Democracy for Sale
A trove of new documents detailing the corruption and influence-peddling by Jack Abramoff, Ralph Reed and Tom DeLay is sweeping the high-minded prophets of the Republican revolutio...
Dec 7, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer
Dictionary of Republicanisms Sequel Dictionary of Republicanisms Sequel
I want to thank again all the loyal readers whose outpouring of interest and words of kindness have made The Dictionary of Republicanisms such a rewarding experience. All of us mu...
Dec 6, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
John Murtha’s Johnstown John Murtha’s Johnstown
If you want to better understand how public opinion on the war in Iraq has reached a turning point, visit Johnstown in Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional district. It's a socially ...
Dec 5, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
An Antiwar Challenge to Hillary Clinton An Antiwar Challenge to Hillary Clinton
Former National Writers Union president Jonathan Tasini, one of the most outspoken progressive activists in the U.S. labor movement, is expected this week to launch a Democratic p...
Dec 5, 2005 / John Nichols
Anybody Want to Buy a Newspaper? Anybody Want to Buy a Newspaper?
Under pressure from Wall Street, newspaper journalism is being frog-marched out of the media marketplace. And once it's gone, how will we know anything?
Dec 2, 2005 / Feature / Nicholas von Hoffman