Print Magazine March 26, 2007 Issue Victor Navasky remembers Arthur Schlesinger, Patricia Williams questions the ethics of invasive childcare, Stuart Klawans reviews films from… Cover art by: Cover by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels Purchase Current Issue or Login to Download the PDF of this Issue Download the PDF of this Issue Editorial Bush Approval Rating Drops Below Zero Polling experts say that Bush's numbers are at an all-time low, and that only certain toxic molds have come close to those numbers in the past. Eric Kenning Bush Amigo’s Para Pals Revelations of Colombian government collusion with paramilitary thugs ought to put the damper on President Bush's Latin American tour. Liliana Segura Schlesinger & The Nation Remembering an eminent activist historian whose passing has left the public sphere much poorer. Victor Navasky Senator Inevitable Nothing personal, but Hillary Clinton is a candidate of the past. William Greider Conscience and the War After four years of war, complete withdrawal from Iraq is the only way to redeem our nation for the death and destruction it has imposed. Stephen F. Cohen Time to Fix Healthcare Affordable healthcare is rapidly emerging as the top domestic policy issue in the 2008 presidential race. Candidates, got ideas? The Editors Column Cheney, Cornered As dangerous as any cornered animal, Dick Cheney now stands revealed as a man of deep corruption. Robert Scheer A Consequential Life Arthur Schlesinger refused to recognize the boundaries most intellectuals accept. Eric Alterman Judge Not? The case of a severely disabled 9-year-old girl whose parents subjected her to a series of nonessential surgeries raises troubling questions about medical ethics and public policy. Patricia J. Williams A Dispiriting Thought On the 2008 Presidential Election Campaign Calvin Trillin Letters Letters MOLLY: DEEP IN THE HEARTS OF TEXAS Pittsburgh Our Readers and Daniel Lazare Feature In Lieu of Flowers Mourning a slain young mother in New Orleans, the only way to dignify her death is to try to create real justice here. Billy Sothern The Millionaires’ Primary As America embarks on the longest, most costly presidential race in history, Russ Feingold is asking Congress to apply the brakes. Ari Melber Guantánamo, Dred Scott and the Amistad The US Supreme Court should look back on its most regrettable and most courageous decisions. Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith KBR’s $400 Million Iraq Question Did the Pentagon's biggest Iraq contractor violate military policy by hiring Blackwater and other private military companies? Jeremy Scahill and Garrett Ordower Bush’s Brush with Latin America’s Drug Lords Bush needs to acknowledge how little Colombia and Guatemala are doing to combat cocaine trafficking to the United States. Frank Smyth Walter Reed Scandal: How Mainstream Media Let Us Down Cutbacks and a penchant for profits and happy news hid the plight of wounded soldiers. Celia Viggo Wexler Putting Science in the Dock Judges' ability to discriminate against expert witnesses has ended up empowering large corporations. Barry Yeoman Who’s Afraid of Gardasil? A medical breakthrough has provoked opposition from conservatives, consumer advocates and antivaccine groups. Karen Houppert Cheney on Trial The Libby trial exposed the truth about who really pulls the strings in the Bush White House. David Corn Books & the Arts Guantánamo, Dred Scott and the Amistad The US Supreme Court should look back on its most regrettable and most courageous decisions. Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith The Things They Carried Reviews of The Host, The Wind That Shakes the Barley and The Namesake. Stuart Klawans The Spoils of Indian Democracy Two new books show how perceptions of India have been shaped and distorted by rhapsodic portrayals of its business elite. Siddhartha Deb The Restless Mind At the Same Time, Susan Sontag's posthumous collection of essays and speeches, reveals her rapt attention to the world around her. Jeremy Harding Schlesinger & The Nation Remembering an eminent activist historian whose passing has left the public sphere much poorer. Victor Navasky Recent Issues See All "swipe left below to view more recent issues"Swipe → February 2025 January 2025 December 2024 November 2024 October 2024 September 2024 See All x
Bush Approval Rating Drops Below Zero Polling experts say that Bush's numbers are at an all-time low, and that only certain toxic molds have come close to those numbers in the past. Eric Kenning
Bush Amigo’s Para Pals Revelations of Colombian government collusion with paramilitary thugs ought to put the damper on President Bush's Latin American tour. Liliana Segura
Schlesinger & The Nation Remembering an eminent activist historian whose passing has left the public sphere much poorer. Victor Navasky
Conscience and the War After four years of war, complete withdrawal from Iraq is the only way to redeem our nation for the death and destruction it has imposed. Stephen F. Cohen
Time to Fix Healthcare Affordable healthcare is rapidly emerging as the top domestic policy issue in the 2008 presidential race. Candidates, got ideas? The Editors
Cheney, Cornered As dangerous as any cornered animal, Dick Cheney now stands revealed as a man of deep corruption. Robert Scheer
A Consequential Life Arthur Schlesinger refused to recognize the boundaries most intellectuals accept. Eric Alterman
Judge Not? The case of a severely disabled 9-year-old girl whose parents subjected her to a series of nonessential surgeries raises troubling questions about medical ethics and public policy. Patricia J. Williams
In Lieu of Flowers Mourning a slain young mother in New Orleans, the only way to dignify her death is to try to create real justice here. Billy Sothern
The Millionaires’ Primary As America embarks on the longest, most costly presidential race in history, Russ Feingold is asking Congress to apply the brakes. Ari Melber
Guantánamo, Dred Scott and the Amistad The US Supreme Court should look back on its most regrettable and most courageous decisions. Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith
KBR’s $400 Million Iraq Question Did the Pentagon's biggest Iraq contractor violate military policy by hiring Blackwater and other private military companies? Jeremy Scahill and Garrett Ordower
Bush’s Brush with Latin America’s Drug Lords Bush needs to acknowledge how little Colombia and Guatemala are doing to combat cocaine trafficking to the United States. Frank Smyth
Walter Reed Scandal: How Mainstream Media Let Us Down Cutbacks and a penchant for profits and happy news hid the plight of wounded soldiers. Celia Viggo Wexler
Putting Science in the Dock Judges' ability to discriminate against expert witnesses has ended up empowering large corporations. Barry Yeoman
Who’s Afraid of Gardasil? A medical breakthrough has provoked opposition from conservatives, consumer advocates and antivaccine groups. Karen Houppert
Cheney on Trial The Libby trial exposed the truth about who really pulls the strings in the Bush White House. David Corn
Guantánamo, Dred Scott and the Amistad The US Supreme Court should look back on its most regrettable and most courageous decisions. Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith
The Things They Carried Reviews of The Host, The Wind That Shakes the Barley and The Namesake. Stuart Klawans
The Spoils of Indian Democracy Two new books show how perceptions of India have been shaped and distorted by rhapsodic portrayals of its business elite. Siddhartha Deb
The Restless Mind At the Same Time, Susan Sontag's posthumous collection of essays and speeches, reveals her rapt attention to the world around her. Jeremy Harding
Schlesinger & The Nation Remembering an eminent activist historian whose passing has left the public sphere much poorer. Victor Navasky