Faith and Fraud Faith and Fraud
The fictional world created by the Bush Administration over its five years in power is falling to pieces, with the blood-soaked folly in Iraq, a ruined environment, massive corrupt...
Nov 3, 2005 / Jonathan Schell
Assad on the Brink Assad on the Brink
The Baathist regime is the most opaque on earth, and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must develop a strategy to save himself and his regime, as the UN investigation of the assasin...
Nov 3, 2005 / David Hirst
Rise of an Opposition? Rise of an Opposition?
As remarkable as the concept may sound after years of Democratic dysfunction, something akin to a two-party system appeared to take shape November 1, the week after Scooter Lib...
Nov 3, 2005 / John Nichols
Intolerable Cruelty Intolerable Cruelty
If the US is to prevail in the war on terror, we must do it by distinguishing ourselves from the enemy. Torture and degrading treatment are as morally evil as terrorism, because th...
Nov 3, 2005 / David Cole
After the Libby Indictment After the Libby Indictment
The CIA leak scandal has revealed the Bush crew's dishonesty and hypocrisy. But don't expect the Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald or Bush to ever explain what really happened.
Nov 3, 2005 / David Corn
Showdown on the Court Showdown on the Court
The nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the US Supreme Court forces the debate the President and the Senate have tried so mightily to avoid: whether the Court should shift decisive...
Nov 3, 2005 / The Editors
All the King’s Media All the King’s Media
The scandals suffocating the Bush Administration seem less like Nixon and Watergate and more like Louis XV and pre-Revolutionary France. They are harbingers of a potent cultural ev...
Nov 3, 2005 / Books & the Arts / William Greider
Before School Before School
San Francisco recently launched universal preschool, designed to make young participants higher earners and better citizens when they reach adulthood. If successful, San Francisco&...
Nov 3, 2005 / Feature / David Kirp
Toxic Recycling Toxic Recycling
Recycling electronics using US prison labor is a booming business, with a captive workforce paid pennies per hour for dangerous work that is largely unregulated. The human and en...
Nov 3, 2005 / Feature / Elizabeth Grossman