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Live Flesh Live Flesh

In no other body of work is the sexuality of human flesh explored as truthfully as in the transgressive, erotically charged images created by Egon Schiele.

Jan 4, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

How Do We Know FISA Is Working? How Do We Know FISA Is Working?

The illegality of the Bush-approved NSA domestic spying program seems obvious, especially with the passage of FISA in 1978, which requires electronic surveillance to be conducted o...

Jan 4, 2006 / Feature / Herman Schwartz

Abramoff , The GOP Corruption Machine & What Dems Need to Do Abramoff , The GOP Corruption Machine & What Dems Need to Do

It didn't take Republican super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff's guilty plea to three felony counts of conspiracy, mail fraud and tax evasion to understand that the scale of corruption in...

Jan 4, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Abramoff’s Sordid World Abramoff’s Sordid World

The unfolding Jack Abramoff corruption scandal exposes the hypocrisy of the GOP "revolution," which promised to restore morality to Washington but instead sank deepinto a cesspool ...

Jan 4, 2006 / Column / Robert Scheer

Jack Abramoff and the Politics of 2006 Jack Abramoff and the Politics of 2006

By any serious definition of the word, Republican super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff is a rat. His decision to enter guilty pleas Tuesday to three felony counts of defrauding his own cl...

Jan 3, 2006 / John Nichols

Look to The Onion for Accurate War Coverage Look to The Onion for Accurate War Coverage

Sometimes, only The Onion gets it right. The satirical weekly, which does for print journalism what Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" does for cable news, finished off 2005 with ...

Jan 2, 2006 / John Nichols

New York’s Real Transit Crisis New York’s Real Transit Crisis

New York City's first transit strike in a quarter-century resulted in an agreement that both the union leadership and the MTA insist is the greatest contract ever--but that the uni...

Dec 30, 2005 / Feature / Robert Fitch

A Year of Sweet Victories A Year of Sweet Victories

In the dark days after the election of 2004, the mainstream media was touting the making of a permanent rightward shift, and the progressive community was deeply deflated. It was...

Dec 30, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Language of the Heart Language of the Heart

We need to learn a new language of peace and love that we can speak, even shout, to our leaders who only understand the language of greed and murder.

Dec 29, 2005 / Cindy Sheehan

Dr. Germ and Mrs. Anthrax Set Free Dr. Germ and Mrs. Anthrax Set Free

Why is it not bigger news that these infamous Iraqi scientists have been quietly released from imprisonment in Iraq without any charges being brought by their US captors?

Dec 28, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer

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