Infinite Jest Infinite Jest
This past March, on the closing day of an international literary conference held in Krakow, Poland, an elderly woman stood up before hundreds of scholars and admirers gathered to...
Jan 6, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Paloff
Afghan Poppies Bloom Afghan Poppies Bloom
The war-ravaged, opium-dependent country lives in fear of a new drug war.
Jan 6, 2005 / Feature / Christian Parenti
Bittersweet Bomblets Bittersweet Bomblets
I was listening to Morning Edition on December 30, and up came one of those end-of-the-year heart-warmers that's supposed to make you feel there's hope for this old world yet.
Jan 6, 2005 / Column / Katha Pollitt
The Pen of Swift, the Brush of Bosch… as Usual The Pen of Swift, the Brush of Bosch… as Usual
The new year promises a rich manure of hypocrisy and bad faith.
Jan 6, 2005 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero
As I followed the initial coverage of the tsunami in the Indian Ocean, I was reminded of a time in the early1980s when I spent some months researching the effects of a nuclear wa...
Jan 6, 2005 / Jonathan Schell
Assigning Responsibility Assigning Responsibility
Defending Rumsfeld, Bush says Rummy's great, That as a planner he has been first rate-- Respected in the White House and the ranks.
Jan 6, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Calvin Trillin
The Country Doctor The Country Doctor
It's a time of sudden hope in the crisis between the Palestinians and Israelis, a weird time of moderation and calls for renewed negotiations.
Jan 6, 2005 / Amy Wilentz
Tsunami & US Priorities Tsunami & US Priorities
As the death toll from the tsunami disaster continued to grow, the Bush Administration scrambled to answer widespread criticism that it responded too slowly and with too little a...
Jan 6, 2005 / The Editors
Tim Spicer’s World Tim Spicer’s World
Why was a notorious mercenary awarded a $293 million Pentagon contract?
Dec 29, 2004 / Feature / Andrew Ackerman