Getting Out
Robert Dreyfuss
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The foreign policy establishment knows the Iraq War is lost, but the
search for an acceptable exit strategy has only just begun.
The Editors call for a Florida revote, Walter Mosley explores obligations of the rich to the poor, Alexander Cockburn contrasts media coverage of Darfur and Gaza.
Articles
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Latinos Lean Left
Roberto Lovato : Latino voters walked away from the GOP in the midterm elections, a payback for the party's ruthlessly anti-immigrant stance.
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Mad Mel and the Maya
Earl Shorris : Mel Gibson's violent new film Apocalypto exploits Maya culture and perpetuates racist stereotypes.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Time to Leave
: If the Iraq Study Group faces reality, it will conclude that the only feasible option for America is to leave Iraq--as quickly as possible.
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Revote and Verify
: Now that 18,000 electronic ballots have vanished in the flawed 13th Congressional District election in Sarasota, Florida, it's time for a revote.
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Show Me the Money
Walter Mosley : A man can be rich, but only a nation can be wealthy. And if anyone suffers from poverty, our whole country bears the shame.
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The 'Seattle Senators'
John Nichols : Newly elected advocates of fair trade in the House and Senate could reverse the free-trade absolutism of the Clinton and Bush years.
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Olbermann's Hot News
Daphne Eviatar : News flash: Dissent sells! And the American public does have a taste for serious, high-minded news.
Reviews
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book
In Palestine, a Dream Deferred
Bashir Abu-Manneh : Two new books explore fundamental Palestinian and Israeli concerns: The Iron Cage by Rashid Khalidi considers the Palestinians' failure to achieve sovereignty, and One Country by Ali Abunimah puts forth a moral case for binationalism.
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film
Unhappy Meal
Stuart Klawans : Stuart Klawans reviews Fast Food Nation, a film that aspires to activism as it undermines its own anticorporate message.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
An Analysis of the War by the Newly Rehabilitated Trent Lott
Calvin Trillin : Now here's a guy who knows whereof he speaks.
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BEAT THE DEVIL
Gaza and Darfur
Alexander Cockburn : There's no political risk for US media to sound off over genocide in Darfur, but challenging Israel's shameful seige of Gaza is quite a different story.
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SUBJECT TO DEBATE
Double, Double Toil and Trouble
Katha Pollitt : "Is it just my imagination, or are women wreaking more evil than usual these days?"
Web
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The Iraq Study Group: A Fatal Flaw
Robert Dreyfuss : The Iraq Study Group report is a stunning rebuke of Bush's Iraq policy. But its central premise--that the US can support the nonexistent Iraqi government and bolster its viciously sectarian armed forces--is fatally flawed.
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A Fair and Square Vote in Venezuela
Emily Jane Goodman : A New York judge, invited to observe the Venezuelan presidential election, discovers a functional democracy, reliable electronic-voting technology and a passionate, engaged electorate.
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John Bolton's Greatest Hits
Ian Williams : Exactly how much damage did John Bolton do during his tenure at the United Nations? Let us count the ways.
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TruthDig
Jose Padilla's Ordeal
Robert Scheer : The systematic abuse of an American citizen charged with vague crimes related to terror has destroyed his sanity and made us into what we despise.
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Unlocking the Vote: Activists and disenfranchised former felons restore voting rights in Rhode Island
Activists and disenfranchised former felons restore voting rights in Rhode Island.
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Dartmouth Reviewed: Community protests anti-Native American imagery
Community protests anti-Native American imagery.
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We All Have AIDS: Hundreds of students gather for World AIDS Day demonstration in DC
Hundreds of students gather for World AIDS Day demonstration in DC.
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Fine By Us: A T-shirt campaign brings students out of the closet
A T-shirt campaign brings students out of the closet.
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Draining the Gene Pool
Lisa M. Hamilton : A plant gene that could protect organic crops from contamination from genetically engineered seeds is out of reach to most organic farmers, thanks to an agribusiness patent.
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Breathing While Black
Christopher Rabb : A young black man and an elderly black woman each die in a hail of police bullets; a comedian invokes the era of lynching--suddenly it feels like a crime to be caught breathing while black.
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music
Suga Mama, Politicized
Daphne A. Brooks : Beyoncé Knowles's sexed-up club jam B'Day is also an odd, urgent, dissonant and disruptive personal and political statement.
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Beginning of the End
Robert Dreyfuss : The Iraq Study Group report comes too late for the 600,000 people who died in carnage that is likely to worsen. It won't satisfy the antiwar movement because it sets no timetable for withdrawal. But it does mark the beginning of the end of America's criminal war of aggression.
Cover by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels, photo by Ho New/Reuters
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