Darkness Visible Darkness Visible
Shortly after the first anniversary of September 11, when The New Yorker had published a slew of poems memorializing the events of that day--Galway Kinnell's "When the Towers F...
May 13, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Lexi Rudnitsky
Back to the Two Americas Back to the Two Americas
One day after the most recent monthly jobs report showed that 280,000 new jobs were created in April--welcome news, but, the Bush Administration's job record is still dismal and ...
May 13, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Exporting America’s Prison Problems Exporting America’s Prison Problems
In 1997 a 29-year-old schizophrenic inmate named Michael Valent was stripped naked and strapped to a restraining chair by Utah prison staff because he refused to take a pillowc...
May 12, 2004 / Dan Frosch
Thread of Abuse Runs to the Oval Office Thread of Abuse Runs to the Oval Office
Someone's lying--big-time--and neither Congress nor the media have begun to scratch the surface.
May 11, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer
The New Disaster Flick The New Disaster Flick
On May 28th, Twentieth Century Fox will release a new disaster film. But The Day After Tomorrow is not your conventional fear flick. It's not about biological, nuclear or milita...
May 10, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Rumsfeld Gets Off Easy Rumsfeld Gets Off Easy
Donald Rumsfeld got off easy. Once again, members of the US Senate showed that grasping the big picture is not their strong suit. When the defense s...
May 7, 2004 / David Corn
Patrick Leahy on US Abuses Patrick Leahy on US Abuses
As Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the ranking member of the Foreign Operations Subcommittee, said in a stirring speech this past Tuesday on the Senate floor: "The mistreat...
May 7, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
The World Tribunal on Iraq The World Tribunal on Iraq
On February 15, 2003, one of the greatest mobilizations of popular protest the world has ever seen demonstrated its opposition to the Bush Administration's plans to invade Iraq. ...
May 7, 2004 / Peter Rothberg