The ‘Obamican’ Phenomenon The ‘Obamican’ Phenomenon
In early April I visited the political battleground of suburban Philadelphia to interview a bunch of former Republicans who'd registered as Democrats to vote for Barack Obama in th...
Apr 18, 2008 / Ari Berman
The American Air War for Terror The American Air War for Terror
Here are a few simple propositions on the matter of air war. First, the farther away you are from the ground, the clearer things are likely to look, the more god-like you are like...
Apr 14, 2008 / TomDispatch
Obama and the Palestinian Professors Obama and the Palestinian Professors
Ten years ago, Barack Obama went to a lecture by Edward Said, the prominent Palestinian intellectual. Should that be page one news now? The LA Times thinks so – they ran a ...
Apr 10, 2008 / Jon Wiener
Norman Mailer-Requiem for a Champion Norman Mailer-Requiem for a Champion
Don DeLillo described him as a writer who "gave America a literature worthy of her vastness." Joan Didion spoke of his 1000 page nonfiction masterpiece "The Executio...
Apr 10, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Petraeus’s Ponzi Scheme Petraeus’s Ponzi Scheme
They came, they saw, they… deserted. That, in short form, is the story of the recent Iraqi government "offensive" in Basra (and Baghdad). It took a few days, but...
Apr 7, 2008 / TomDispatch
Communists in the Schools: Controversy in California Communists in the Schools: Controversy in California
The California legislature is considering a bill to repeal the law, passed in the heyday of McCarthyism, that permits the firing of Communist Party members who teach in public scho...
Apr 6, 2008 / Jon Wiener
Do Pentagon Planners Dream of Electric Bugs? Do Pentagon Planners Dream of Electric Bugs?
Who doesn't love anniversaries? And here's an unforgettable one. This very year, the Pentagon's research outfit, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), turns 50 y...
Mar 31, 2008 / TomDispatch
Imagine the Bush Administration Without War Imagine the Bush Administration Without War
Recently, Mark Danner took stock of the President's failed War on Terror abroad in three words: "Fragmentation, Diminution, Destruction." "Gaze for a moment at tho...
Mar 27, 2008 / TomDispatch
Hillary’s Economic Plan Hillary’s Economic Plan
Okay, stop the complaints about Democratic presidential candidates who won't face up to the financial crisis bearing down the country. Hillary Clinton stood up and shook her finger...
Mar 25, 2008 / William Greider
Not the Lady But the Tiger Not the Lady But the Tiger
Once again last week, the President and his men surged into the headlines, announcing that we had just zipped past yet another of those Iraqi "turning points." Or, as Ge...
Mar 24, 2008 / TomDispatch