Get Me Rewrite

Bill Clinton maintains that the mainstream media has misrepresented his record on fighting terror. But it will take a generation to meaningfully assess his effectiveness.

Mark Updegrove

Torture is a Moral Issue

Will we be a nation that abides by our own Constitution and upholds international law? Or will we become a nation that punishes those who follow the orders while exonerating those...

The Nation

The Pope’s Monopoly on Reason

Pope Benedict XVI's controversial speech is indeed a call for dialogue among all religions. But what kind of dialogue is possible if the Pope believes his ideas are "rational" and ...

Tarif Khalidi and Muhammad Ali Khalidi

Rewriting the Sixties

Decency is a subjective perception. And so arbitrary.

Paul Krassner

Spanish Justice

The courts of Spain have already tried human rights violators from Chile and Argentina. Those responsible for torturing, imprisoning and killing 200,000 Mayans during Guatemala's t...

Geoff Pingree and Lisa Abend

Driving While Muslim

As the hunt for homegrown terrorists sympathetic to Hezbollah intensifies, the Muslims of Dearborn, Michigan are losing their trust in American justice.

Spencer Ackerman

The Growing Wage Gap

A winning economic strategy for Democrats: Push for realistic policies to relieve workers' frustrations, rebuild their damaged confidence and improve lifetime security.

Jeff Madrick

Déjà Vu on Iran?

The Bush Administration is trying to use flawed intelligence to whip up public support for military action against Iran. Can they get away with this again?

The Editors

A Distinct Lack of Intelligence

If George W. Bush took the latest National Intelligence Estimate seriously, he would end the ineffectual "war on terror" model and treat terrorism as a pathology to be clinically ...

Robert Scheer

Snapshot of a Plutocracy

Every person on this year's Forbes 400 list of America's richest people is a billionaire, who collectively possess about $1.25 trillion. Imagine how many Congressmen that wi...

Nicholas von Hoffman

Screamin’ at the Machine

We should be cheering at sports events and screaming at politicians. But these days, it's vice versa. Now that ESPN's Screamin' Stephen A. Smith is acting like a pundit, things cou...

Dave Zirin

Single-Issue Solipsism

NARAL ProChoice America wants its sisters in Connecticut to support Joe Lieberman. Are they out of their minds?

Katha Pollitt

From Flying Saucers to 9/11

The world is in tumult, but in the heart of Empire, the level of creative political energy runs flat along the bottom of the graph.

Alexander Cockburn

George W. Bush and Some Republican Senators Discuss the Geneva Conventions

Calvin Trillin

Letters

Jonathan Schell's "Too Late for Empire" drew much praise from readers [Aug. 14/21].