Indicting the President’s Policies Indicting the President’s Policies
In Washington, where it is exceeding difficult to get the political players or the press corps to pay attention to more than one story at once, no0 one would suggest that it was "...
Sep 30, 2005 / John Nichols
A CIA-Did-It Defense for Scooter in the Plame Leak Case? A CIA-Did-It Defense for Scooter in the Plame Leak Case?
When you already have a fall guy, use him--especially if he's a dead man. Could that be the legal strategy of I. Lewis Libby (a.k.a. Scooter), Vice ...
Sep 30, 2005 / David Corn
Sweet Victory: Desegregation Works Sweet Victory: Desegregation Works
As Jonathan Kozol points out in his new book Shame of the Nation, the promise of Brown v. Board of Education remains unfulfilled. Thanks largely to a spate of Rehnquist Court deci...
Sep 30, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Mute Point Mute Point
The undulating monoliths in architect Peter Eisenman's Holocaust memorial in Berlin are more banal than beautiful--which suits Eisenman fine.
Sep 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Fighting the Abyss Fighting the Abyss
Although The Aesthetics of Resistance delves into leftist notions of art and class struggle, this account of an anti-Nazi youth group in Germany seems outdated now.
Sep 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Noah Isenberg
Crime and Punishment Crime and Punishment
A recent surge of novels and memoirs reveals for the first time the ways in which Germans suffered from Allied "total war" strategy during World War II.
Sep 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Mark M. Anderson
Letter From Iran Letter From Iran
While his ideological style may be rough, is Iran's newly elected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the fire-breathing conservative that the mainstream Western media makes of him?
Sep 29, 2005 / Feature / Negar Azimi
Roberts Draws 22 Democratic Votes Roberts Draws 22 Democratic Votes
The stampede to confirm Judge John Roberts as the 17th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court roared through the full Senate Thursday as the chamber voted 78-22 to give President...
Sep 29, 2005 / John Nichols
A Disease for Every Pill A Disease for Every Pill
What do you do if you want to profit from the everyday aches and pains of human existence? Invent a disease, then convince people they need drugs to cure it.
Sep 29, 2005 / Feature / Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels
Can It Happen Here? Can It Happen Here?
With religious school vouchers and public displays of the Ten Commandments on government monuments, the United States is following Europe's path to a melding of Christianity and th...
Sep 29, 2005 / Feature / Richard Alba and Nancy Foner