Jonathan Schell worries about Bush's nuclear option, Frank Smyth reports on US military officers caught delivering weapons to a Colombian terrorist organization and George Scialabba reviews Thomas Friedman.
: Democrats must continue the fight to preserve an independent judiciary.
Frank Smyth : Two US officers are caught delivering weapons to a Colombian paramilitary group.
Tony Kushner : The politics of a progressive playwright.
Jonathan Schell
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The Senate backed down from its "nuclear option." But would Bush actually reach for his?
David Sirota : Friends of predatory lenders stay in the minority, while foes move toward the majority.
Daniel Lazare : Paul Johnson and Christopher Hitchens's new books on the Founding Fathers.
Terry Eagleton : Russell Jacoby's study of utopian thought is a flawed treasure.
Adam Haslett
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The story of Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun illustrates the value of a truly independent judiciary.
Adam LeBor
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Home for centuries to Christians, Muslims and Jews, Salonica was a cosmopolitan world where people of various cultures and religions lived side by side.
Linda Colley
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The story of the American products, producers and salesman that took over Europe in the last century.
Maria Margaronis
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Michael Cunningham delivers a historical/noir/sci-fi novel haunted by 9/11 and Walt Whitman.
Vivian Gornick
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A new biography of one of the Enlightment's most remarkable thinkers.
Shashi Tharoor
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Siddhartha Deb's second novel follows an Indian journalist on an elusive search for meaning.
Calvin Trillin
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John Bolton and the French Ambassador have it out at the UN.
Alexander Cockburn
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The Senate should abandon its comical pretensions to being a body reflecting any democratic mandate.
Katha Pollitt : Thanks to the wonders of reproductive science, you too can have a virgin birth.
Jeremy Scahill : Bush began the Iraq invasion before he went to Congress.
Our Readers : Articles on Bolivia, the Lincoln Museum and other issues attract comments and questions.
Ross Benjamin : An interview with Peter Eisenman, architect of Berlin's new Holocaust memorial.
Liza Featherstone : Wal-Mart's CEO showcases his company's hypocrisy.
Robert Scheer : Once again, grieving relatives point out that the Bush Administration will exploit anything for political purposes.
Christian Parenti : Unwilling to suffer through another generation of brutal poverty, the indigenous people of Bolivia have taken to the streets in La Paz.
Cover art by José Chicas of Avenging Angels.