The View From Prague The View From Prague
Only on my last day in this hilly, river-spliced city, with such beguiling old world charm and art nouveau elegance that unless you're Kafka a strenuous effort is required to m...
May 13, 2004 / Peter Davis
Conditions of Atrocity Conditions of Atrocity
Even before the Congressional hearings on the criminal abuse of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison, Colin Powell brought up My Lai, the Vietnamese village where, in 1968, Ame...
May 13, 2004 / Robert Jay Lifton
‘Dead Man Walking’ ‘Dead Man Walking’
"The unthinkable is becoming thinkable," neoconservative pundit Robert Kagan despaired recently in the Washington Post.
May 13, 2004 / The Editors
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
Mean Green Job Machine Mean Green Job Machine
The presidential campaigns and their armies of consultants are well aware that a jittery American public yearns for jobs.
May 6, 2004 / Paula DiPerna
Bhopal’s Legacy Bhopal’s Legacy
Every December for the past nineteen years, marchers in Bhopal, India, have paraded an effigy of Warren Anderson through town and burned it. Anderson is despised because he was...
May 6, 2004 / Mark Hertsgaard
Stonewalling on Wilson Stonewalling on Wilson
The publication of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's book, The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies That Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity, affords a fresh opportuni...
May 6, 2004 / Books & the Arts / David Corn
Election Matters Election Matters
The peeling-gilt Aladdin Theatre, in a working-class neighborhood across the river from downtown Portland, generally draws rock acts a little too funky or faded to fill the cit...
May 6, 2004 / David Sarasohn
The Horror of Abu Ghraib The Horror of Abu Ghraib
"Abu Ghraib prison was used for torture in Saddam's time.
May 6, 2004 / The Editors
Vanishing Votes Vanishing Votes
On October 29, 2002, George W. Bush signed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). Hidden behind its apple-pie-and-motherhood name lies a nasty civil rights time bomb.
Apr 29, 2004 / Greg Palast