Stop the Violence Stop the Violence
As the violence in Iraq escalates ahead of Sunday's national elections, there are disturbing reports of intimidation, death threats and murders specifically targeting members of t...
Jan 27, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
from Love in the Time of War from Love in the Time of War
Tonight, the old hard work of love has given up. I can't unbutton promises or sing secrets into your left ear tuned to quivering plucked strings.
Jan 27, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Yusef Komunyakaa
The Moviegoer The Moviegoer
If Herbert Marcuse and Senator Joseph McCarthy had gone to a movie together in the late 1950s--and that could only happen in a movie--they would have walked out, probably not tog...
Jan 27, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Lee Siegel
Intolerable Cruelty Intolerable Cruelty
On May 22, 1787, nine Quakers and three Anglicans gathered in a London print shop with the express purpose of doing something about the international slave trade.
Jan 27, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare
Visualizing a Neo-Rainbow Visualizing a Neo-Rainbow
History holds clues to a winning electoral strategy for progressives.
Jan 27, 2005 / Feature / Bill Fletcher Jr. and Danny Glover
Waxman: Democrats’ Eliot Ness Waxman: Democrats’ Eliot Ness
His headline-grabbing investigations are enough to give the GOP heartburn.
Jan 27, 2005 / Feature / David Corn
Dick Durbin: Bush Fighter Dick Durbin: Bush Fighter
He can help mount an effective opposition.
Jan 27, 2005 / Feature / John Nichols
Fantasy Island Fantasy Island
Washington Post writer Paul Farhi cleverly compared the content and structure of George W.
Jan 27, 2005 / Column / Eric Alterman
Shrieking Violets Shrieking Violets
There I was, in the basement of the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, enjoying a private tour of the place.
Jan 27, 2005 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
We Could Have Danced All Night We Could Have Danced All Night
(The Bushes Do "My Fair Lady" at the Inaugural Balls)
Jan 27, 2005 / Column / Calvin Trillin