The War and the Elections The War and the Elections
The Iraq debate will be a central issue of the 2006 Congressional elections, and there is reason to believe antiwar candidates will prevail. The first step in that process is to en...
Dec 15, 2005 / The Editors
Another 9/11? Never Mind… Another 9/11? Never Mind…
The 9/11 Commission's startling follow-up report that savages the Bush Administration's inadequate efforts to protect the country from terrorism was met by the media with a collect...
Dec 15, 2005 / Column / Eric Alterman
Pentagon Secretly Paid to Place Articles In Iraqi Newspapers: Another Lesson in Democracy Pentagon Secretly Paid to Place Articles In Iraqi Newspapers: Another Lesson in Democracy
This just in: The Pentagon offers yet another lesson in democracy. Just don't look for any bylines.
Dec 15, 2005 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Faith of Eugene McCarthy The Faith of Eugene McCarthy
Eugene McCarthy, the Minnesota senator, frequent presidential candidate and poet who died Saturday at age 89, never had a chance at the Democratic nomination in 1968. But his passi...
Dec 13, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Robert Sherrill
Amid Hostage Vigils, Peace Work Endures Amid Hostage Vigils, Peace Work Endures
The remaining members of the Christian Peacemaker Teams in Baghdad say their work will go on regardless of what happens to their four colleagues still held hostage. CPT workers wer...
Dec 10, 2005 / Feature / David Enders
Harold Pinter: Art, Truth and Politics Harold Pinter: Art, Truth and Politics
The pursuit of truth in drama is elusive, but in life it is mandatory, wrote Harold Pinter, who died Wednesday at 78. When he won the 2005 Nobel Prize for literature, he condemned ...
Dec 8, 2005 / Books & the Arts / The Nation
Bitter Memories of a ‘Dirty War’ Bitter Memories of a ‘Dirty War’
The current debate in the United States over the use of torture in the interrogation of terror suspects has prompted Patricia Isasa, a teenage torture victim in Argentina...
Dec 8, 2005 / Feature / Michael Fox
Imitation of Art Imitation of Art
The Chronicles of Narnia is the perfect combination of Christian allegory and The Lord of the Rings, a well-crafted commodity and nothing more. The Ice Harvest, an anti-Christmas f...
Dec 8, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
‘Never Before!’ Our Amnesiac Torture Debate ‘Never Before!’ Our Amnesiac Torture Debate
Does it lessen the horror to admit that this is not the first time the US government has used torture to wipe out political opponents? The exclusion of the impact of the School of ...
Dec 8, 2005 / Column / Naomi Klein
All the News That’s Fit to Buy All the News That’s Fit to Buy
Bush brings a robust simplicity to the business of news management: Where possible, buy journalists to turn out favorable stories. And if you think you can get away with it, shoot ...
Dec 8, 2005 / Column / Alexander Cockburn