Society

Crony Constitutionalism Crony Constitutionalism

Democrats have a chance to stand up for competence, civil liberties and the integrity of the Supreme Court by challenging Harriet Miers's lack of credentials and blocking Bush from...

Oct 6, 2005 / The Editors

Darwin and God Darwin and God

Darwin's discoveries about evolution never argued against the existence of God. And the theory of "intelligent design" is a dangerous attempt to undermine science and justify a lit...

Oct 4, 2005 / Dr. Marc Siegel

Bill Bennett’s Abortion Fantasies Bill Bennett’s Abortion Fantasies

What's really shocking about Bill Bennett's public fantasies of reducing crime by aborting black babies is the ease with which conservative critics cast lawlessness in racial terms...

Oct 4, 2005 / Mark Sorkin

25 Questions About the Murder of New Orleans 25 Questions About the Murder of New Orleans

New Orleans did not die an accidental death--it was murdered by deliberate design and planned neglect. Here are twenty-five urgent questions from the people who live in a city subm...

Sep 30, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Mike Davis and Anthony Fontenot

Crime and Punishment Crime and Punishment

A recent surge of novels and memoirs reveals for the first time the ways in which Germans suffered from Allied "total war" strategy during World War II.

Sep 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Mark M. Anderson

Letter From Iran Letter From Iran

While his ideological style may be rough, is Iran's newly elected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the fire-breathing conservative that the mainstream Western media makes of him?

Sep 29, 2005 / Feature / Negar Azimi

Can It Happen Here? Can It Happen Here?

With religious school vouchers and public displays of the Ten Commandments on government monuments, the United States is following Europe's path to a melding of Christianity and th...

Sep 29, 2005 / Feature / Richard Alba and Nancy Foner

Desperate Housewives of the Ivy League? Desperate Housewives of the Ivy League?

Why does the New York Times feel compelled to perpetuate the myth that smart, striving women are increasingly opting out of a career to be stay-at-home moms?

Sep 29, 2005 / Column / Katha Pollitt

From Lynndie England to Shaquille O’Neal From Lynndie England to Shaquille O’Neal

Americans are becoming more hostile by the day to the war in Iraq, the nation is demoralized over official abandonment of the victims of the Gulf Coast storm, but the Democratic Pa...

Sep 29, 2005 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Gitmo’s Hunger Strikers Gitmo’s Hunger Strikers

The US military is keeping the ongoing hunger strike and forced feedings of Guantanamo Bay under wraps. And an apathetic American media is showing no interest in exposing the situa...

Sep 29, 2005 / Clive Stafford Smith

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