Intolerable Cruelty Intolerable Cruelty
If the US is to prevail in the war on terror, we must do it by distinguishing ourselves from the enemy. Torture and degrading treatment are as morally evil as terrorism, because th...
Nov 3, 2005 / David Cole
After the Libby Indictment After the Libby Indictment
The CIA leak scandal has revealed the Bush crew's dishonesty and hypocrisy. But don't expect the Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald or Bush to ever explain what really happened.
Nov 3, 2005 / David Corn
Showdown on the Court Showdown on the Court
The nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the US Supreme Court forces the debate the President and the Senate have tried so mightily to avoid: whether the Court should shift decisive...
Nov 3, 2005 / The Editors
All the King’s Media All the King’s Media
The scandals suffocating the Bush Administration seem less like Nixon and Watergate and more like Louis XV and pre-Revolutionary France. They are harbingers of a potent cultural ev...
Nov 3, 2005 / Books & the Arts / William Greider
Before School Before School
San Francisco recently launched universal preschool, designed to make young participants higher earners and better citizens when they reach adulthood. If successful, San Francisco&...
Nov 3, 2005 / Feature / David Kirp
Toxic Recycling Toxic Recycling
Recycling electronics using US prison labor is a booming business, with a captive workforce paid pennies per hour for dangerous work that is largely unregulated. The human and en...
Nov 3, 2005 / Feature / Elizabeth Grossman
On the Wal-Mart Money Trail On the Wal-Mart Money Trail
As the nation's wealthiest family, the Waltons could be a force for social good. But when they choose to spend their fortune lobbying for pet projects, tax cuts and charter schools...
Nov 3, 2005 / Feature / Liza Featherstone
Abramoff’s Last Stand Abramoff’s Last Stand
Senator John McCain's latest Senate inquiry into über-lobbyist Jack Abramoff strikes deep in the corrupt heart of the Bush Administration.
Nov 3, 2005 / Feature / Ari Berman
Changing the Electoral Game in Colombia Changing the Electoral Game in Colombia
In a landmark ruling, Colombia's Constitutional Court has allowed President Alvaro Uribe to seek a second term. That's good news for the Bush Administration, which considers Uribe ...
Nov 2, 2005 / Feature / Liliana Segura