Sweet Victory: Celebrating ACORN Sweet Victory: Celebrating ACORN
The events of the past two weeks have laid bare America's secret: that poverty abounds in this profoundly unequal nation. As the body count in New Orleans rises, it has become ab...
Sep 13, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
“Dignified Process”? “Dignified Process”?
The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of John Roberts to serve as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court began with an appropriate message from Wisconsin Senat...
Sep 12, 2005 / John Nichols
New Orleans: Raze or Rebuild? New Orleans: Raze or Rebuild?
Despite persistent calls from the right to raze the ruined city, gritty storm survivors from New Orleans to Gulfport and Houston begin to put their lives together again.
Sep 12, 2005 / Feature / Christian Parenti
John Roberts Meets the Senate John Roberts Meets the Senate
When Senator Arlen Specter, the Republican chairman of the judiciary committee, opened the confirmation hearings for John Roberts Jr., George W. Bush's nomi...
Sep 12, 2005 / David Corn
Contributing to Hurricane Katrina Relief Contributing to Hurricane Katrina Relief
Yesterday's New York Times's Sunday Styles section had a story about those of us called Katrina, and how we are handling the fact that we share a name with a Hurricane which has c...
Sep 12, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Hurricane Halliburton Hurricane Halliburton
Having finished the search for a luxury vacation home on the eastern shore of Maryland – which preoccupied him during the critical initial days of what is being called the worst...
Sep 11, 2005 / John Nichols
New Orleans: Voices in the Storm New Orleans: Voices in the Storm
The chronicle of an unfolding catastrophe, as told by the victims of Hurricane Katrina, the bureaucrats, the rescuers, the journalists and the politicians.
Sep 9, 2005 / The Editors
A Continent for the Taking A Continent for the Taking
What to make of The Constant Gardener, a movie focused on Europeans set in Africa, the return of Terry Gilliam and the New York City-set Keane?
Sep 8, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Love and Betrayal in Colonial Africa Love and Betrayal in Colonial Africa
Abdulrazak Gurnah's seventh book, Desertion, revisits the theme of exile and expands it to relationships---between lovers, between families, between countries.
Sep 8, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Laila Lalami
Robert Kaplan: Empire Without Apologies Robert Kaplan: Empire Without Apologies
In his new book, Robert Kaplan proposes that the antidote to anarchy is empire, policed by soldiers holding an assault rifle in one hand and candy bars in the other.
Sep 8, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Andrew J. Bacevich