A New Stance Toward Havana
Julia E. Sweig : The peaceful transfer of power in Cuba presents an opportunity for the US government to abandon its policy of perpetual hostility.
Richard Kim discusses Korean Americans' response to the Virginia Tech shootings, John Dinges reports on Cuba's crackdown on foreign correspondents and David Yaffe reviews Ornette Coleman's legacy.
Articles
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The Changing of the Guard
Peter Kornbluh, Alberto Coll, Saul Landau, William LeoGrande, Philip Peters & Ramón Sánchez-Parodi : A panel of experts explores the view from Havana.
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Terror and the Counterterrorists
Peter Kornbluh : Five Cuban counterterrorism experts are being held indefinitely in American prisons while the "bin Laden of Latin America" is let free.
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Miami Vise
Max J. Castro : Cuban-American moderates are on the rise, but hard-liners still run the show.
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Ferdinand VII
Gore Vidal : Whose astonishing wisdom led to preserving a statue of the monstrous Ferdinand VII in Havana?
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Watching the Reporters
John Dinges : After three foreign correspondents are decertified, is Cuba sending a message to the international press corps?
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A Dangerous Little Beehive?
Rosa Miriam Elizalde : A Cuban children's troupe has performed around the globe but finds it almost impossible to enter the United States.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Changing Course on Cuba
: The US government's policy toward Cuba is imperial, irrational, arguably insane. It's time to change it.
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Virg. Tech: Only Connect
Bruce Shapiro : The Virginia Tech shootings should prompt us to rethink our approach toward guns, the media and mental health.
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One of My Own
Richard Kim : Although the murders at Virginia Tech had nothing to do with race, Korean Americans remain worried about anti-Asian fallout.
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Sarko vs. Ségo in France
André Schiffrin : French politics have been pushed to the right thanks in part to the neo-Fascist politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Reviews
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music
The Art of the Improviser
David Yaffe : Nearly fifty years after Ornette Coleman revolutionized jazz, he is finally being honored with the music world's top awards.
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book
Stranger in the City
Tara Gallagher : The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears tells the story of an Ethiopian immigrant's unrequited love affair with the American Dream.
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book
Cafe Society
William Deresiewicz : Clive James's erudite new collection of essays celebrates the best of twentieth-century art, thought and politics.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
A Bring-the-Troops-Home Rally in Baghdad
Calvin Trillin : Help for the troops might come from an unlikely source.
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BEAT THE DEVIL
Is Global Warming a Sin?
Alexander Cockburn : Is global warming an unprecedented disaster, or just the earth recovering from the ice age?
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SUBJECT TO DEBATE
Regrets Only
Katha Pollitt : The Supreme Court's recent antichoice decision shows how deeply disinformation has seeped into the abortion debate.
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LOOKOUT
Sacrificial Wolfie
Naomi Klein : The World Bank was corrupt long before Paul Wolfowitz gave his girlfriend a raise.
Web
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Open Letter to Prince Harry
Amir Soltani Sheikoleslami : Be a prince of peace: Don't go to Iraq.
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Howl
Mormons, in a Flattering Light
Nicholas von Hoffman : A new PBS documentary provides a lush but not very enlightening look at Mormons in America.
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TruthDig
Tenet's Treachery
Robert Scheer : Bush's chief spook knew the Administration's treachery on Iraq from the start. But he never revealed it to Congress or the public.
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The Supergirl Syndrome
Lakshmi Chaudhry : The marketing-driven message of the perfect girl--smart, skinny, pretty, athletic and loved by all--is a model of perfection that's hard to live up to. Can't girls just be free to be?
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The Higher Education Scam
Barbara Ehrenreich : Marilee Jones excelled as admissions dean at MIT, until she was fired for falsifying her resume. But what good is a college degree, anyway?
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Pull the Plug on the Mercenary War
Jeremy Scahill : Who will stop the shadow US army in Iraq? Don't count on Congressional Democrats.
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The Future of the Party?
Habiba Alcindor : Did the recent College Democrats of New York State Convention augur a new day for the Democratic Party?
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The Democrats' Depressing Debate
Bob Moser : The candidates ignored race, class and religion, and fumbled the key question of how to get out of Iraq.
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Southpaw
Football and Nikki Giovanni at Virginia Tech
Dave Zirin : Tragedy uncovers the diverse world of a school that had been known only for football.
Cover art by Eduardo Muņoz Bachs, Center for Cuban Studies
Collection; cover design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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