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A Fabric of Illegality A Fabric of Illegality

The White House practices the dark arts of trashing whistleblowers who exposed prisoner abuse at Guantánamo and the warrantless spying program, adding another layer of illeg...

Feb 23, 2006 / The Editors

The Olympics We Missed The Olympics We Missed

The Winter Olympics are to NBC what icebergs were to the Titanic. Jingoistic, condescending coverage missed the real drama.

Feb 22, 2006 / Column / Dave Zirin

In Defense of Free Thought In Defense of Free Thought

An Austrian court sends a crackpot historian to prison for denying the Holocaust; why shouldn't Muslims protesting the Muhammad cartoons question a double standard?

Feb 22, 2006 / Column / Robert Scheer

Farewell to Ground Zero Farewell to Ground Zero

The structure of our Republic is at mortal risk. Will our Constitution survive or are we in the midst of a transmutation in which the balance of powers and our personal freedoms wi...

Feb 20, 2006 / Jonathan Schell

Only Pictures? Only Pictures?

Two prominent cartoon artists discuss their perspective on the worldwide protests over the Muhammad cartoons.

Feb 20, 2006 / Joe Sacco and Art Spiegelman

The Palestinian Patient The Palestinian Patient

Gate of the Sun follows the odyssey of Palestinians driven to refugee camps in Lebanon by Israeli forces in 1948.

Feb 16, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Raja Shehadeh

Envisioning Another World: IntegraciĆ³n Desde Abajo Envisioning Another World: IntegraciĆ³n Desde Abajo

Immigrant advocates at the World Social Forum offered real alternatives to the narrow debate over how to fix the system.

Feb 16, 2006 / Feature / Roberto Lovato

The Gasbag Gap The Gasbag Gap

Why expect political balance on talk TV when the networks are wedded to the belief that all the action is on the right?

Feb 16, 2006 / Column / Eric Alterman

Freezing Their Assets Freezing Their Assets

Among the superrich, there's a growing desire to freeze themselves and their bank accounts in hopes of rising again. Talk about Groundhog Day.

Feb 14, 2006 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman

Political Science Political Science

NASA climatologist James E. Hansen won't let political pressure from the Bush Administration blunt the urgency of his research on global warming: It's not too late to mitigate th...

Feb 14, 2006 / Feature / Bryan Farrell

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