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Dances With Ghosts Dances With Ghosts

As the House of Representatives voted to allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Ohio Democrat Dennis Kucinich decried the back-door methods and contemplated t...

Dec 19, 2005 / Feature / Dennis Kucinich

Shoot the Moon Shoot the Moon

How realistic is it to stop the Bush Administration from pursuing its war agenda? Former prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega offers some hard-core advice about how to challenge the sta...

Dec 19, 2005 / Feature / Elizabeth de la Vega

The Wonder and Horror of 2005 The Wonder and Horror of 2005

In the gloom of post-election 2004 few people, if any, could have anticipated the wild surprises of 2005. Focusing on three unforeseen developments of the past year, a meditation o...

Dec 15, 2005 / Feature / Rebecca Solnit

Fear and Laughing in Las Vegas Fear and Laughing in Las Vegas

Lenny Bruce was a lone voice at a time when irreverent comedy could land him in jail on obscenity charges. But the spirit of Lenny Bruce hovered over the first annual Comedy Festiv...

Dec 15, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Paul Krassner

Apollo Now Apollo Now

Industrial society is on a collision course with nature. The devastation of New Orleans is a metaphor for what can happen next to us all. Will America decide to reshape the future ...

Dec 15, 2005 / Feature / William Greider

Left to Die Left to Die

If a society is measured by the treatment of its prisoners, we are in deeper trouble in New Orleans than we realize. The biggest prison crisis since Attica is now unfolding in the ...

Dec 15, 2005 / Feature / Billy Sothern

Katrina Lives Katrina Lives

The nation might believe it has moved on from Katrina, from the name so childish and somehow slightly foreign, not Sherry or Ann or Margaret. Moved on from the scenes of dark-s...

Dec 15, 2005 / Feature / Susan Straight

In the Shadow of Disaster In the Shadow of Disaster

Faced with the challenge of rebuilding, New Orleans seems stuck in the mud--not just mired in the muck caking the city but also trapped by centuries of policy mistakes, especially ...

Dec 15, 2005 / Feature / Ari Kelman

Hypocrisy Trumps Clemency Hypocrisy Trumps Clemency

The refusal of the California governor, who built his fame feeding adolescent fantasies of killing, to grant clemency to a former gang leader who tried to dissuade kids from violen...

Dec 14, 2005 / Feature / Bruce Shapiro

Two Prisoners Named Williams Two Prisoners Named Williams

The lives and deaths of two prisoners intersected this week--Stanley Tookie Williams and Richard Williams, flawed men whose political perspectives and pursuit of personal redemptio...

Dec 14, 2005 / Feature / Dan Berger

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