The Merchant of Baghdad The Merchant of Baghdad
Item 1: Proving that the Republicans have no problem ignoring Biblical strictures against usury, the Congress passed a bankruptcy bill that makes life far more profitable for cred...
Mar 30, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Con Job by Pakistan’s Pal, George Bush A Con Job by Pakistan’s Pal, George Bush
Trying to follow the US policy on the proliferation of nuclear weapons is like watching a three-card monte game on a city street corner. Except the stakes are higher.
Mar 29, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer
GI Loses First Round in Canada Asylum Bid GI Loses First Round in Canada Asylum Bid
Jeremy Hinzman fled north rather than be deployed in a war he regards as a "criminal enterprise."
Mar 29, 2005 / Feature / Alisa Solomon
‘Wrong Man for the Position’ ‘Wrong Man for the Position’
Adding a powerful establishment voice to the growing campaign against George Bush's appointment of John Bolton to be the next US ambassador to the United Nations, a group of 59 fo...
Mar 29, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
Now Bush Is Picking on Kids Now Bush Is Picking on Kids
Think of Ann Veneman as the Paul Wolfowitz of food policy. Just as Wolfowitz used his position as the Bush administration's deputy secretary of defense to spin whacked-out neoco...
Mar 27, 2005 / John Nichols
Sweet Victory: Fairness at Georgetown Sweet Victory: Fairness at Georgetown
After more than a week without food, the twenty-plus members ofGeorgetown's Living Wage Coalition started to have theirdoubts. The students, who began a hunger strike on March 15...
Mar 26, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
States Support the Underdogs States Support the Underdogs
What a month for the Green Mountain State. on March 18th, the VermontCatamounts stunned heavily favored Syracuse for their first NCAAtournament win in the team's 100-year history....
Mar 25, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Coke: The New Nike Coke: The New Nike
A growing student movement is taking the company to task for its record on human rights around the globe.
Mar 24, 2005 / Feature / Michael Blanding
Quartet for the End of Time Quartet for the End of Time
When David Spencer Ware was a baby, his mother pronounced a blessing over him. Go See the World became the title of the saxophonist's first major-label record, for Columbia.
Mar 24, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Brian Morton
Dreams and Delusions Dreams and Delusions
California inspires people to think big, and to write big books. Take, for example, Kevin Starr.
Mar 24, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener