The Other Rocky
Sasha Abramsky : While most politicians win by appealing to the lowest common denominator, Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson takes a decidedly higher road.
The Editors urge the new Congress to make union organizing easier, Lisa Delpit and Charles Payne critique post-Katrina education in New Orleans, Melanie Rehak considers the poetry of Hart Crane.
Articles
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The Katrina Factor
Michael Tisserand : There's little evidence so far that Democrats will push for reconstruction in New Orleans.
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Katrina's Last Victims?
Lisa Delpit & Charles Payne : The New Orleans school system, re-created in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, is beginning to look like something designed by FEMA.
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Chávez's Citizen Diplomacy
Liza Featherstone : Venezuela's controversial program to provide heating oil to impoverished American communities exposes the inability of the richest nation on earth to meet the needs of its poor.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Recognizing Labor
: Unions are pushing hard for the new Congress to ease the process of organizing labor by passing the Employee Free Choice Act.
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Pinochet's Legacy
Marc Cooper : The death of Chilean strongman Augusto Pinochet should not blunt the work of healing the damage he has done and shining light on the truth.
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Sweet Victories
Morality of the Minimum
Katrina vanden Heuvel & Sam Graham-Felsen : Let Justice Roll deserves credit for mobilizing values voters around minimum wage initiatives.
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Kucinich Tries Again
John Nichols : Yep, the Congressman from Cleveland's running for President again--but first, he wants to fix the Democratic Party.
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The Waiting Game
David Corn : Expect a flurry of hearings on Iraq when the new Democrat-controlled Congress convenes. But no real action from lawmakers or the President is likely to be taken.
Reviews
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book
Waltzing With Warlords
Peter Bergen : Five years after the United States ousted the Taliban, optimism about Afghanistan's future is evaporating. Three new books shed light on what went wrong.
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poetry
A View From the Bridge
Melanie Rehak : Hart Crane, one of America's greatest poets, relished the extremes that eventually destroyed him.
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art
A Painter of Our Time
Barry Schwabsky : Diego Velázquez was a restless innovator, a painter who slyly revealed the ordinariness of his exalted subjects--one is almost tempted to call him modern.
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film
Within the Context of No Context
Stuart Klawans : Reviews of Blood Diamond, Inland Empire, The Good German and The History Boys.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
Four Options That the Baker-Hamilton Report Offers to Those Prosecuting the War in Iraq
Calvin Trillin : And each one has to do with getting the hell out.
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BEAT THE DEVIL
War: Voters Said No, Congress Said Yes
Alexander Cockburn : In Congress and the popular press, fantasy rules when the subject is Iraq.
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SUBJECT TO DEBATE
Ho-Ho-Holiday Donations--2006
Katha Pollitt : Give a gift that will make the world better.
Web
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TruthDig
Addicted to War
Robert Scheer : Obsessed GOP hawks--and some Democrats--want to end the Iraq war by escalating it, and Bush proposes expanding the military: America is hooked on the habit of military might.
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2006: A Year of Living Dangerously
Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith : 2006 will be remembered as a year in which the American people and the world rose up to challenge the criminal actions and deceit of the Bush Administration.
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Southpaw
Brawl in the Garden
Dave Zirin : Carmelo Anthony pays the price for the melee between the Nuggets and the Knicks, but it's NBA commissioner David Stern who should be benched.
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ISG: Defeat With Honor
Christian Parenti : Pundits on the left just don't get it when they call the Iraq Study Group report "Stay the Course Lite." It's an admission of the Bush Administration's total failure.
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About Face: Soldiers Call for Iraq Withdrawal
Marc Cooper : For the first time since Vietnam, active-duty military personnel have organized to oppose a war that they are fighting.
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What Makes Kucinich Run?
Joshua Scheer : The Congressman from Cleveland explains an urgent need for human unity, human security and peace motivated him to run for President.
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The Rise of Avigdor Lieberman
Ben Lynfield : Many Israelis and their American allies are sleeping through the rise of the virulently anti-Arab Avigdor Lieberman.
Cover by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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