Log In

ICE Program Under Fire

287(g), the Department of Homeland Security program that empowers local police, like notorious Sheriff Joe Arpaio, to detain undocumented immigrants, is under scrutiny.

Jessica Weisberg

Gay Activists Split on Obama

At this past weekend’s National Equality March, fury, or at least frustration, with the president trumped hope. On four key gay rights reforms, the administration’s support is decidedly mixed at best.

Eric Naing

Don’t Ask, Don’t Get

A grassroots group for LGBT activism, born at last weekend’s National Equality March, plans to push Obama harder than established gay rights groups will.

Daniel Chandler

Obama at the Precipice

Will Obama do any better at listening to critics of the Afghan War than Lyndon Johnson did on Vietnam?

William J. Astore

Al Qaeda in Afghanistan

At a recent Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, former CIA officers offered clear alternatives to escalation in Afghanistan.

Greg Kaufmann

Are We the Twenty-First Century Martians?

Should President Obama and General McChrystal read the 111-year-old novel, The War of the Worlds?

Tom Engelhardt

Honduran Coup Regime in Crisis

Those who seized power in June have polarized society, delegitimized political institutions and empowered social movements.

Greg Grandin

Reflections on a Decade of Civic Revolutions in Latin America

Having concluded that US and IMF/World Bank prescriptions failed their region, a new generation of leaders seek economic and social development through homegrown strategies.

Antonio Gonzalez and Miguel Tinker Salas

Beyond Rescue

The campaign against forced prostitution works when it addresses victims’ needs.

Noy Thrupkaew

Memo to Investigators: Dig Deep

The first step toward lasting financial reform is to identify the roots of the crisis.

William Greider

Talking With Tehran

Can the United States and Iran negotiate an end to the nuclear standoff?

Bob Dreyfuss

Quagmires

Robert Grossman

Tuesdays With Rahm

The quickest way to Rahm Emanuel’s bad side: put progressive pressure on conservative Democrats.

Chris Hayes

Climate Roulette

A frightening new climate change study says the United States must quit carbon within ten years.

Mark Hertsgaard

Help Wanted

Benefits extensions and retraining are not sufficient to address the staggering level of unemployment now facing Americans.

The Editors

Noted.

On healthcare, Representative Grayson lands a punch; momentum against “don’t ask, don’t tell”; Obama goes weak on press freedom; Greece votes socialist as Europe trends right.

The Editors

My Response to Rush: It’s the Racism, Stupid

The real reason Limbaugh is losing his cool is that his dream of owning an NFL franchise is going up in smoke.

Dave Zirin

Public Health Before Wall Street Wealth

The healthcare debate has become a convenient distraction from the far more pressing issues surrounding the banking meltdown.

Robert Scheer

The NFL Must Flush Rush

Rush Limbaugh’s long history of racism should be enough to quash his chances of becoming an owner in the National Football League.

Dave Zirin

Obama and the Decline of White America

Marginal extremist voices are amplified by the right-wing echo chamber.

Gary Younge

Where Have You Gone, William Safire?

Newsrooms’ fears of misunderstanding the right leads to outsized coverage and attention.

Eric Alterman

What Whoopi Goldberg (‘Not a Rape-Rape’), Harvey Weinstein (‘So-Called Crime’) et al. Are Saying in Their Outrage Over the Arrest of Roman Polanski

He's been punished for this lapse–exiled for decades from LA!

Calvin Trillin

Baffled Dignity

Alain Resnais’s Wild Grass and Margot Benacerraf’s Araya.

Stuart Klawans

End-of-Self Help

Is the task of philosophy “to learn how to die,” or to teach that there is no such thing as a good death?

Alexander Provan

Waiting for the Miracle: On Leonard Cohen

In Leonard Cohen’s Afterworld, the trajectory between the latest hit and the wisdom of old has been a long one.

David Yaffe

Thin Shangdu

Cathy Park Hong

Letters

Worldwatch Focuses on Africa

Washington, D.C.

Our Readers

Puzzle No. 3188

ACROSS

 1 Such a chase is useless, crazy and foul, I hear. (4,5)

Frank W. Lewis