Blank Check for Bush? Blank Check for Bush?
Recent rulings upholding the right of the executive branch to jail and try terror suspects in military tribunals raise questions about whether the judiciary can keep presidential p...
Oct 6, 2005 / David Cole
Pat Tillman, Our Hero Pat Tillman, Our Hero
War hero and former NFL star Pat Tillman was not the GI Joe icon created by Pentagon spinmeisters. He was a fiercely independent thinker convinced that the war in Iraq was illegal....
Oct 6, 2005 / Dave Zirin
Fighting the Abyss Fighting the Abyss
Although The Aesthetics of Resistance delves into leftist notions of art and class struggle, this account of an anti-Nazi youth group in Germany seems outdated now.
Sep 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Noah Isenberg
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
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
Peaceniks Flood DC Peaceniks Flood DC
Last week's antiwar rally in Washington sent a single, unequivocal message: At home and abroad, the Bush Administration is a complete failure.
Sep 29, 2005 / Liza Featherstone
Out of Gas Out of Gas
Before 9/11, the Bush Administration thought tax breaks and environmental deregulation would solve the energy crisis. They were wrong. Now it's time for policies that promote cons...
Sep 29, 2005 / The Editors