Kevin Rudd, Agent of Change? Kevin Rudd, Agent of Change?
He's greener and less hawkish than his predecessor, but is Australia's next prime minister really all that different?
Nov 27, 2007 / Feature / Antony Loewenstein
The Soldier and the Student The Soldier and the Student
Today's military members face red tape, false advertising and multiple deployments. What happened to the promises of the original GI Bill?
Nov 27, 2007 / Feature / Aaron Glantz
The Nijinsky of Ambivalence The Nijinsky of Ambivalence
During a Vietnam War protest, Norman Mailer blustered and banged a generation's experience through his prodigious ego.
Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Morris Dickstein
A Colder War A Colder War
Richard Rhodes's Arsenals of Folly, sequel to the book that defined the atomic age, captures the political struggle that brought it to an end.
Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell
Cheering for Ron Paul Cheering for Ron Paul
It takes a libertarian Republican to shame Democrats into acknowledging the true cost of this war for ordinary Americans.
Nov 21, 2007 / Column / Robert Scheer
War Novelist War Novelist
THE NAKED AND THE DEAD. By Norman Mailer. Rinehart and Company. $4.
Nov 20, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Ira Wolfert
VideoNation: The Cost of War VideoNation: The Cost of War
Democratic candidates need to make the war a campaign issue, and hammer away at the staggering economic and human costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Nov 15, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Blackwater’s Brothers Blackwater’s Brothers
A deepening conflict-of-interest scandal envelops the Krongard brothers--Howard, a State Department official overseeing Blackwater contracts, and his brother Alvin, who has long be...
Nov 15, 2007 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill
Justice Delayed Justice Delayed
The government's case against Khader Hamide and Michel Shehadeh is closed. But did the US government learn anything about its wayward two-decade prosecution of Palestinian activi...
Nov 15, 2007 / David Cole
Bush, Pakistan and the Bomb Bush, Pakistan and the Bomb
The Bush Administration's failed war on terror has stoked the fires it was meant to quench. And in Pakistan, the risk of nuclear terrorism is on the rise.
Nov 14, 2007 / Feature / Jonathan Schell