Mideast Mirage? Mideast Mirage?
Four and a half years after the outbreak of the second intifada, Israel and the Palestinian Authority have signed a cease-fire agreement in Sharm el Sheik, and the peace process ...
Feb 17, 2005 / The Editors
Condoleezza Rice Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice, who is cold as ice, is precise with her advice. Yes, she is quite precise, and, yes, she's cold as ice.
Feb 17, 2005 / Column / Calvin Trillin
What We Don’t Know About 9/11 Hurts Us What We Don’t Know About 9/11 Hurts Us
Would George W. Bush have been re-elected President if the public understood how much responsibility his Administration bears for allowing the 9/11 attacks to succeed?
Feb 16, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer
V-Day 2005 V-Day 2005
Over the past seven years, V-Day, the global movement started by playwright/performer Eve Ensler, has raised more than $25 million to support organizations working to stop violenc...
Feb 16, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
The Bizarre Gannon Affair The Bizarre Gannon Affair
There is something about the fuss over the White House reporter formerly known as Jeff Gannon that makes me uneasy. No, it's not the sexually explicit photo...
Feb 15, 2005 / David Corn
Faux Journalism Faux Journalism
As the Gannongate scandal grows more disturbing by the day, it is worth remembering that this is but the latest round in the Bush White House's assault on the freedom of the press...
Feb 15, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Free Speech on (One) Campus Free Speech on (One) Campus
As a joke some years ago, a friend gave me a copy of Ward Churchill's 1998 book Pacifism as Pathology: Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America. In it, the Unive...
Feb 14, 2005 / John Nichols
Zephyr Teachout to Howard Dean Zephyr Teachout to Howard Dean
The blogopshere is jam-packed with strategic advice for new DNC Chair Howard Dean. One of the most thoughtful pieces was written by Zack Exley--former director for MoveOn.org and ...
Feb 13, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Visible Man Visible Man
The Jack Johnson story is about many things, but none more emphatically than the meaning of manhood to the Anglo-Saxon imagination at the turn of the century.
Feb 10, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Greg Tate
Show Me the Money! Show Me the Money!
Toward the end of the undervalued 1979 movie adaptation of former pro football receiver Peter Gent's undervalued 1973 novel, North Dallas Forty, a beat, bent lineman, played by t...
Feb 10, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour