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December 12, 2005 Issue

Alexander Cockburn skewers Democrats for failing to support John Murtha’s call for a rapid pullout from Iraq, Jonathan Schell examines…

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Editorial

The Fall of the One-Party Empire

Unmaking the empire of fantasy and fraud that the Republican Party has created will not be done quickly and the outcome is uncertain. But historians may one day write that the fake...

Jonathan Schell

Minority/Majority

While Steny Hoyer seeks to "make himself the first contact for K Street," Nancy Pelosi and George Miller are pressing forward with their crackdown on lobbying and ethics abuses.

David Sirota

In Fact…

BURYING PLAN B

The Editors

Undermining Haiti

Democracy is being destroyed in Haiti, openly and with the support of the United States and United Nations. If the farce election set for December 27 by unelected government takes ...

Mark Weisbrot

Waist Deep in Big Oil

While political pressure is mounting for a pullout from Iraq, the subject of total withdrawal remains unbroachable within the political establishment. Control of the Iraq's ...

Mark LeVine

Alito’s CAP Connection

Samuel Alito once boasted he was a member of Concerned Alumni of Princeton, which opposed bemoaned the impact of co-education and affirmative action. What does this say about his c...

Eyal Press

The Murtha Moment

John Murtha is right: The American public has turned against the war. Democrats and Republicans must put aside politics and work together to bring the troops home quickly and focus...

The Editors

Column

Bush’s Iraq Outdoes Saddam

Ethnic cleansing, chemical weapons, self-appointed executioners: Sound familiar? The US occupation in Iraq has created conditions just as bad--if not worse--than Saddam Hussein's r...

Robert Scheer

Cheney’s Trouble with the Truth

No other modern politician has come so close as Dick Cheney has to perfecting the theater of the absurd. Even as he protests his innocence of lying about matters of state, he lies ...

Robert Scheer

Ho-Ho-Holiday Donations, Early Edition

Tsunami. Hurricane. Earthquake. War. Poverty. Injustice. It's been a tough year, but here's a list of extraordinary groups who deserve a place on your holiday gift list.

Katha Pollitt

The Truth About the War

The truth about the Iraq war may be clear to John Murtha and 60 percent of the American people, but not to the three Democratic senators interested in becoming President in 2008.

Alexander Cockburn

Cheney, Speaking From Experience

Calvin Trillin

Letters

SCHADENFREUDEAN SLIP

Orinda, Calif.

Our Readers

Feature

The Fight to Save Stanley Tookie Williams

As the clock ticks down to former gang leader Stanley Tookie Williiams's scheduled execution on December 13, football great Jim Brown is helping lead the fight to convince Governor...

Dave Zirin

Eggs vs Ethics in Stem Cell Debate

Reports of ethical breaches in the harvesting of human eggs for stem cell research in Korea has focused attention on the need to protect the health and welfare of women who might...

Marcy Darnovsky and Emily Galpern

Did Bush Really Want to Bomb Al Jazeera?

Given the Administration's record of attacking Al Jazeera verbally and militarily, is it conceivable that President Bush tried to convince Tony Blair to bomb its international head...

Jeremy Scahill

In Praise of John Murtha

With 457 blunt-spoken words, John Murtha broke the spell that had held the country captive to the misguided adventure in Iraq. It suddenly became respectable to talk of a pullout. ...

Nicholas von Hoffman

Dictionary of Republicanisms

Compassionate conservativism n. An expensively cultivated phrase created by a decades-old and well-funded Radical Right program of Orwellian doublespeak.

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Mismanaged Care

Tennessee once had a visionary health care plan for that left only 14 percent of residents uninsured. But with federal cuts and a governor's misguided attempt to privatize Medicaid...

Trudy Lieberman

The Real McCain

John McCain is a war hero, a sometime Democratic ally, a crusader for campaign finance reform. But the centrist maverick will most likely take a turn to the right if he wants to ge...

Ari Berman

Books & the Arts

Marxism and Form

Perry Anderson's Spectrum journeys through the abstract worlds of conservative and liberal intellectual thought, and leaves in its trail insights on the substance and style ...

Stefan Collini

The Best Intentions

Syriana disappoints; The Boys of Baraka documents the lives of inner-city kids transported to the wild beauty of Africa; and Punishment Park zeroes in on injus...

Stuart Klawans