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Cover by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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WEB ONLY
Scientists emerge exhausted but visibly excited Friday from a Pasadena Cheesecake Factory.
posted August 6, 2006
posted September 6, 2006
Robert Scheer
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In Bush-liberated Afghanistan, billions in drug profits are financing the Taliban, proving the President is better at starting wars than winning them.
posted September 6, 2006
Michael Tisserand
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As New Orleans rebuilds, so does its Internet community. Here's a list
of the Big Easy's liveliest sites.
posted September 1, 2006
Nicholas von Hoffman
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If you're depending on private savings accounts to get you through retirement, get ready for a bitter surprise, thanks to the crooks and incompetents charged with selling and running the funds.
posted September 6, 2006
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
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Three new books on China invite the West to give up simplistic dreams
and nightmares and come to terms with a complex and rapidly evolving
authoritarian state.
posted August 31, 2006
Laila Lalami
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Egypt has been deprived of its greatest living writer, and the world has
lost one of its most humane literary figures.
posted August 31, 2006
Ross C. Anderson
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Through lies, ineptitude and immoral policies, the Bush Administration
has led the nation to the brink of disaster, ruined our reputation and
sowed hatred that will take generations to uproot.
posted September 1, 2006
Sasha Abramsky
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Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson's cachet is growing in the wake of a stem-winding speech in which he called the President to account for lies and ineptitude in Irag, castigated a complaisant media and assailed the electorate for passively consuming government lies.
posted September 1, 2006
Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith
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The 109th Congress, led by Republican
Senators McCain, Warner, and Graham and with the acquiescence of many
Democrats, is poised to legalize torture, trials with secret evidence,
and annulment of the right of habeas corpus
posted September 22, 2006
David Corn
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Valerie Plame was no mere analyst or paper-pusher at the CIA. She was an operations officer working on a top priority of the Bush Administration: searching out intelligence on Iraq's weapon's of mass destruction.
posted September 6, 2006
John Ross
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The confirmation of Felipe Calderón's electoral victory signals
the end of Andrés Manuel López Obrador's three-year
struggle for the presidency and the beginning of a new phase of
organized resistance.
posted September 6, 2006
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September 18, 2006 issue
See back issues.
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Adolph Reed Jr. looks at neoliberalism's impact on New Orleans,
Philip Weiss examines Israel's human rights record, John
Feffer reviews four new books on Korea.
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LETTERS
Our Readers & Laila Lalami
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EDITORIALS & COMMENT
Great tragedies call for visionary leadership. This is the moment for
progressives to summon the guts to forge a compelling message not just
about what's come apart in America, but how to pull us back together.
John Nichols
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Key primary races in Maryland, Rhode Island and even New York are
making the Iraq War what it should be in every 2006 political contest:
the central issue.
Philip Weiss
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The Human Rights Watch reports that were sharply critical of Israel's killing of
civilians in Lebanon represent the latest battle for Jewish hearts
and minds in the ideological war over the Middle East.
Amy Alexander
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Journalist, activist, philanthropist and self-promoter, Tavis Smiley has the political clout and the ability to energize and educate the black community in the best tradition of Martin Luther King Jr.
Trudy Lieberman
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If it becomes a national model, a new, highly touted health insurance
law in Massachusetts would make American healthcare, already on life
support, take a turn for the worse.
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COLUMNS
DEADLINE POET
Calvin Trillin
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Here's how Democrats should spin the biggest political question in the
midterm elections.
THE LIBERAL MEDIA
Eric Alterman
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Democracy demands that journalists tell the truth. The success of liars
like Bob Novak and Ann Coulter is a greater threat to America than a
truck full of terrorists bent on doing us harm.
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ARTICLES
Gary Younge
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One year later, how will we come to terms with what happened when Hurricane Katrina washed up the disenfranchised most people, including the President, have tried to forget?
Chris Kromm
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Activists and residents are struggling to protect New Orleans's
devastated low-income neighborhoods from developers' vision of a
"smaller footprint" for the city.
Michael Tisserand
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After the storm hit, the Internet was one of the few reliable sources
of information for New Orleans. A year later, it remains a critical
tool for citizens' participation in their city's reconstruction.
Adolph Reed Jr.
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Before the storm, neoliberalism shaped the social and economic
inequities of New Orleans; after Hurricane Katrina, it worsened them
by making government the tool of corporations and investors.
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BOOKS & THE ARTS
John Feffer
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Four new books explore Korea's cold war hangover and the indelible mark
left by its North-South division.
poem
Marina Harss
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In Tango: The Art History of Love, Robert Thompson traces the dance's
roots in Afro-Argentine history. Tomas Eloy Martínez's The Tango
Singer appropriates its music to explore the recent past.
John Palattella
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Nathaniel Mackey's most recent collection of subtle, intricate poetry
weaves images from Arab and African diasporas with a contemporary sense
of dislocation.
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