Blackwater Injustice

A federal judge has dismissed all charges against the five Blackwater operatives accused of gunning down fourteen innocent Iraqis in Baghdad's Nisour Square in 2007.

Jeremy Scahill

Noted.

Remembering poet Dennis Brutus and anti-globalization activist Tim Costello.

The Editors

Looting Social Security

The Washington Post has run a "news" article about deficit reduction produced by The Fiscal Times, an outfit backed by Social Security demonizer Pete Peterson.

William Greider

The Terror Trap

The attempted airliner attack on Christmas Day demonstrates that the best antidote to terrorism is not military action but good intelligence, police work and appropriate securit...

The Editors

David Levine

David Levine, who died on December 29 at 83, was best known for his brilliant, biting, crosshatched caricatures of literary and political figures, which until his vision gave ...

The Editors

Don’t Blame China

In the great American tradition of finding foreign scapegoats for our problems, the hunt is on to somehow hold China responsible for the misery that Wall Street financiers inflicte...

Robert Scheer

The Decade for Women: Forward, Backward, Sideways?

Feminist highs and lows of the first decade of the 2000s.

Katha Pollitt

From Genesis to Gaia

If a conclusive disrespecting of Genesis was required, wouldn't you think R. Crumb was the man for the job?

Alexander Cockburn

One Lesson That We Hope Airport Security Screeners Will Learn From the Attempted Airliner Bombing on Christmas Day

Calvin Trillin

Letters

Ho-Hum Sports, Hi-Ho Zirin!

Eric Alterman and Our Readers