Latina America Lavishly Comes of Age

The quinceañera has become a rite of passage for even the poorest Latina teens, another example of our most treasured rites debased at the cash register.

Lakshmi Chaudhry

The New American Imperium

The Democrats appear to be anti-Iraq War. But they surely are not acting like opponents of imperial overreach.

Stanley I. Kutler

Malcolm Suber: Good for New Orleans

A longtime activist, running in a special City Council election, is just what New Orleans needs.

Adolph Reed Jr.

With Friends Like Turkey…

As Turkey ramps up its outrage against a House committee vote to affirm the Armenian genocide, is anyone applauding our lawmakers' act of moral courage?

Nicole Vartanian

The Political Doris Lessing

The winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature is every bit as political as her predecessors.

Dan Kellum

Her McGovern Moment

Hillary Clinton has recognized the value of courting antiwar voters.

John Nichols

Iraq: The Other Surge

Across the political spectrum in Iraq, a nationalistic bloc is emerging to challenge the Kurdish and Shiite separatists who have held sway under US tutelage.

Bob Dreyfuss

Noted.

Giuliani in Philadelphia, an obituary for Haldar Abdel-Shafi, an apology from Jon Stewart and more.

The Editors

The China Syndrome

Worried about toxic toys from China? Worry, too, about Chinese workers exposed to the poisons.

Andrew Ross

Pre-empt Preventive War

The path back to sanity begins by repealing the Kyl-Lieberman amendment and prohibiting military action in Iran without Congressional approval.

The Editors

Sick Kids’ Laugh Riot

Dear Congressional Democrats: Here's a funny story about what it's like to have a really sick kid, even if you do have insurance.

Annabelle Gurwitch

The Fall of Marion Jones, Inc.

The sports establishment is shocked, shocked at her steroid-fueled Olympic wins. But didn't they also play a role?

Dave Zirin

Whose Genocide Counts?

The House Foreign Affairs Committee bravely declares the 1915 slaughter of Armenians in Turkey genocide. Why not put the same label on themselves, for their role in the Iraq catast...

Nicholas von Hoffman

Burns’s War: What Is It Good For?

An increasingly bookless universe has become the wasteland so many have feared. In a perfect world, we'd have more Ken Burnses expressing a multiplicity of views.

Eric Alterman

Strange Culture

If the stuff of life is corporatized, does art about it become a form of interference in business?

Patricia J. Williams

On Larry Craig’s Decision to Serve Out His Term in the Senate

Calvin Trillin

Going Like Sixty

Robert Grossman

Letters

Readers pick a few nits about Katha Pollitt's column on poverty and heap praise on Bob Moser's reporting about the "Ditch Mitch" McConnell movement in Kentucky.

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