The World Social Forum: Protest or Celebration?
Michael Blanding : The World Social Forum in Caracas provided living proof of alternative political and social visions, but raised new questions about government co-optation.
Joe Sacco and Art Spiegelman discuss their perspective on the worldwide protests over the Muhammad cartoons, Patricia Williams explores the DNA-driven search for roots and Kim Phillips-Fein reviews Robert Fitch's new book on how corruption destroyed the labor movement.
Articles
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Envisioning Another World: Integración Desde Abajo
Roberto Lovato : Immigrant advocates at the World Social Forum offered real alternatives to the narrow debate over how to fix the system.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Less Butter, More Guns
: If the war in Iraq is winding down, why does the Pentagon need so much money? Because the Bush Administration has visions of a permanent war economy.
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Cherry-picked Intelligence
: It's now clear that Bush & Co. had no interest in reality-based intelligence to justify the decision to invade Iraq.
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Bush's New Storm
Michael Tisserand : The Bush Administration failed to protect New Orleans and has yet to rescue its displaced citizens. We need an independent investigation to force accountability.
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Only Pictures?
Joe Sacco & Art Spiegelman : Two prominent cartoon artists discuss their perspective on the worldwide protests over the Muhammad cartoons.
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The FISA File
Athan G. Theoharis : Although his language is less blatant than Richard Nixon's, George Bush is claiming the same imperial powers today that led Congress to pass the Foreign Intelligence Security Act.
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Letter From Ground Zero
Farewell to Ground Zero
Jonathan Schell : The structure of our Republic is at mortal risk. Will our Constitution survive or are we in the midst of a transmutation in which the balance of powers and our personal freedoms will be canceled?
Reviews
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book
The Palestinian Patient
Raja Shehadeh : Gate of the Sun follows the odyssey of Palestinians driven to refugee camps in Lebanon by Israeli forces in 1948.
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book
The Man Who Heard It All
Paul Griffiths : Richard Taruskin's Oxford History of Western Music reviews the world of Western art music, expressing the magnificence and melancholy of its own age.
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book
Labor Pains
Kim Phillips-Fein : Robert Fitch's Solidarity for Sale exposes corruption as the cause of the current crisis in American labor.
Columns
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DEADLLINE POET
On the Report by House Republicans (Yes, Republicans) That Excoriates the Bush Administration for Its Fumbling Response to Hurricane Katrina
Calvin Trillin : Michael Brown is just one of many members of Team Bush who did a heckuva job.
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DIARY OF A MAD LAW PROFESSOR
Emotional Truth
Patricia J. Williams : In a DNA-driven search for biological roots, it behooves us to be less romantic about connecting with our ancestors. If we biologize our history, we will be forever less than we could be.
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THE LIBERAL MEDIA
The Gasbag Gap
Eric Alterman : Why expect political balance on talk TV when the networks are wedded to the belief that all the action is on the right?
Web
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Southpaw
The Olympics We Missed
Dave Zirin : The Winter Olympics are to NBC what icebergs were to the Titanic. Jingoistic, condescending coverage missed the real drama.
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TruthDig
In Defense of Free Thought
Robert Scheer : An Austrian court sends a crackpot historian to prison for denying the Holocaust; why shouldn't Muslims protesting the Muhammad cartoons question a double standard?
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Alice Walton's Fig Leaf
Rebecca Solnit : Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton is on a buying spree, filling her Arkansas museum with America's cultural treasures--a fig leaf that seeks to cover Wal-Mart's naked greed and exploitation.
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Howl
Elegy for GM--and Ourselves
Nicholas von Hoffman : When General Motors goes down, it will take us all down with it.
Cover by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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