Is Iran Winning the Iraq War? Is Iran Winning the Iraq War?
Maybe. But Iraqis mistrust Iran as much as they do the United States.
Feb 21, 2008 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss
The Old Revolutionaries of Vietnam The Old Revolutionaries of Vietnam
Thirty-two years after the war, Communist Vietnam is a bustling market economy awash in foreign capital and consumer goods. So was the war necessary?
Feb 21, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Tom Hayden
The Incredible Shrinking Paycheck The Incredible Shrinking Paycheck
Feeling squeezed? It's official: if you're not in management, the value of your paycheck is dropping at an alarming rate.
Feb 21, 2008 / Feature / Nancy Cleeland
‘End the War in 2009’ ‘End the War in 2009’
Barack Obama has hastened his timetable for withdrawing troops from Iraq, setting the stage for an election battle with John McCain and the forces of neoconservatism.
Feb 21, 2008 / Feature / Tom Hayden
Potshots in Space Potshots in Space
From the heaving deck of the USS Lake Erie, the Bush Administration takes shaky aim at a rogue satellite hurtling to Earh, carrying unknown secrets. The missile attack is purely hu...
Feb 20, 2008 / Feature / Tom Engelhardt
Lenin, Trotzky and Gorky Lenin, Trotzky and Gorky
"I went to Russia believing myself a communist, but contact with those who have no doubts has intensified a thousandfold my own doubts...of every creed so firmly held that for its ...
Feb 20, 2008 / Feature / Bertrand Russell
The Day After Fidel The Day After Fidel
Most authoritarians leave office in a coup or a coffin. Fidel Castro is leaving on his own terms.
Feb 20, 2008 / Feature / Peter Kornbluh
Rigged Trials at Gitmo Rigged Trials at Gitmo
In an exclusive interview, Col. Morris Davis, former chief prosecutor for Guantánamo's military commissions, says that the Pentagon has foreclosed the possibility of acquitt...
Feb 20, 2008 / Feature / Ross Tuttle
Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho
Our Story: As the probe into the supposed suicide of her political mentor unfolds, Kang is grilled by an intriguing homicide cop, and suddenly new troubles develop.
Feb 14, 2008 / Feature / Gary Phillips
Letter From Rome Letter From Rome
Name-calling, spitting, politicians fainting in the Senate chamber and a Catholic drive to "convert the Jews"--this is Italian politics.
Feb 14, 2008 / Feature / Frederika Randall