A Garden of Monsters A Garden of Monsters
The imaginary fascists in Roberto Bolaño's ironic encyclopedia Nazi Literature in the Americas bear a complex relationship to reality.
Mar 13, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Carmen Boullosa
The War and the Working Class The War and the Working Class
Young people drawn into combat by the "economic draft" are being treated just as poorly as all the other workers in this neoliberal economy.
Mar 13, 2008 / Feature / Michael Zweig
The Wages of Peace The Wages of Peace
Spending on the war in Iraq is a job killer. Ending the war would be the real stimulus package.
Mar 13, 2008 / Feature / Robert Pollin and Heidi Garrett-Peltier
Who Said the War Would Pay for Itself? They Did! Who Said the War Would Pay for Itself? They Did!
Unwise words from the "experts" who promised a cost-free war.
Mar 13, 2008 / Feature / Victor Navasky and Christopher Cerf
It’s the War Economy, Stupid! It’s the War Economy, Stupid!
Among the major causes of the current economic crisis is the staggering cost of the war in Iraq.
Mar 13, 2008 / The Editors
Class War (chart) Class War (chart)
Who's losing and who's winning at home from the US occupation of Iraq?
Mar 13, 2008 / Feature / The Nation
The People vs. Michael Chertoff The People vs. Michael Chertoff
To build a fence on the US border with Mexico, the Department of Homeland Security seized land without trials or negotiations.
Mar 11, 2008 / Feature / Brett Story
Fidel Castro, the First Superdelegate Fidel Castro, the First Superdelegate
The retired Cuban dictator has played a vital role in every U.S. presidential election for the last fifty years.
Mar 10, 2008 / Feature / Greg Grandin
Shadowplays Shadowplays
In a pair of groundbreaking books, Israeli historian Hillel Cohen explores the thorny issue of Palestinian collaboration with Zionists.
Mar 6, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Neve Gordon
Hothead McCain Hothead McCain
The GOP nominee favors unilateralism and "rogue state rollback."
Mar 6, 2008 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss