Exporting America’s Prison Problems Exporting America’s Prison Problems
In 1997 a 29-year-old schizophrenic inmate named Michael Valent was stripped naked and strapped to a restraining chair by Utah prison staff because he refused to take a pillowc...
May 12, 2004 / Dan Frosch
Thread of Abuse Runs to the Oval Office Thread of Abuse Runs to the Oval Office
Someone's lying--big-time--and neither Congress nor the media have begun to scratch the surface.
May 11, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer
The New Disaster Flick The New Disaster Flick
On May 28th, Twentieth Century Fox will release a new disaster film. But The Day After Tomorrow is not your conventional fear flick. It's not about biological, nuclear or milita...
May 10, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Rumsfeld Gets Off Easy Rumsfeld Gets Off Easy
Donald Rumsfeld got off easy. Once again, members of the US Senate showed that grasping the big picture is not their strong suit. When the defense s...
May 7, 2004 / David Corn
Patrick Leahy on US Abuses Patrick Leahy on US Abuses
As Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the ranking member of the Foreign Operations Subcommittee, said in a stirring speech this past Tuesday on the Senate floor: "The mistreat...
May 7, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
The World Tribunal on Iraq The World Tribunal on Iraq
On February 15, 2003, one of the greatest mobilizations of popular protest the world has ever seen demonstrated its opposition to the Bush Administration's plans to invade Iraq. ...
May 7, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
Mean Green Job Machine Mean Green Job Machine
The presidential campaigns and their armies of consultants are well aware that a jittery American public yearns for jobs.
May 6, 2004 / Paula DiPerna
Bhopal’s Legacy Bhopal’s Legacy
Every December for the past nineteen years, marchers in Bhopal, India, have paraded an effigy of Warren Anderson through town and burned it. Anderson is despised because he was...
May 6, 2004 / Mark Hertsgaard
Stonewalling on Wilson Stonewalling on Wilson
The publication of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's book, The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies That Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity, affords a fresh opportuni...
May 6, 2004 / Books & the Arts / David Corn