Specialist Town Takes His Case to Washington
Joshua Kors : As a wounded soldier battles to right a wrong, the cavalry arrives.
The Editors on ending the "Shadow War" in Iraq, Joshua Kors on denial of soldiers' medical benefits, Greg Grandin on Hugo Chávez
Articles
-
-
Making a Killing
Jeremy Scahill : Who will mete out justice for America's merchants of death?
Letters
Editorials & Comment
-
End the Shadow War
: Blackwater USA should answer for the crimes of its soldier-contractors in Iraq. Calls for withdrawal from Iraq must also include private security contractors.
-
Our New Look
: Take note of our new look, new features, the return of Comix Nation in the print edition of the magazine.
-
Chávez: 'Galbraithiano'
Greg Grandin : As Venezuela and the rest of Latin America repair the damage of two decades of free-market orthodoxy, John Kenneth Galbraith is a major inspiration.
-
Noted
: A new section features brief comments, late-breaking news, revealing statistics, curiousities, shout-outs, disses, obits, quotable quotes and other short notes.
Reviews
-
book
The Best Wars of Their Lives
Rick Perlstein : A historian plugs some suspicious gaps in two revisionist histories of Vietnam.
-
book
Frank Schaeffer Goes Crazy for God
Jane Smiley : The original poster child for the religious right describes how he came to terms with religion and an odd upbringing.
Columns
-
THE LIBERAL MEDIA
The Coming 'Stab in the Back' Campaign
Eric Alterman : Bush and the neocons are trying to save their crumbling reputations by blaming critics of the war for the debacle.
-
LOOKOUT
Greenspan and the Myth of the True Believer
Naomi Klein : His autobiography sheds light on what motivates hard-right political leaders to apply brutal economic shock therapy.
Web
-
television
Does Sarah Silverman Suck?
Kera Bolonik : The raunchy, racy comedian makes us laugh and cringe.
-
Fired Up
Against Happiness
Annabelle Gurwitch : Women are less happy than we used to be. But given the state of the world, perhaps if we had a little more worry and a little less happy, we'd be better off.
-
Christian Parenti: Congo Diary
Christian Parenti & Laura Hanna : The Nation's international correspondent journeys deep into the heart of the Congo Basin woodlands to see how a massive logging boom is decimating the world's second-largest tropical forest.
-
Southpaw
The Sick Knicks
Dave Zirin : Exposed in court as sex harassers, the coach and owner of a storied basketball team have turned Madison Square Garden into a toxic workplace.
-
Jena: Take Your Nooses Down
A schoolyard fight in Jena, Louisiana, fueled by hateful symbols of the Jim Crow era, prompted John Mellencamp to write this song. Watch the video.
-
TruthDig
The State Department's Hired Guns
Robert Scheer : Why did the State Department tolerate--and pay to conceal--the crimes of its Blackwater guards in Iraq?
-
College Cost Reduction Act Passed
H.R. 2669 is the largest increase in student aid since the GI Bill of 1944.
-
Clinton and Obama: Running on Ambien
Barbara Ehrenreich : Can America survive the tedium of its black and female candidates?
-
Howl
For Hillary, There's No Such Thing as Dirty Money
Nicholas von Hoffman : Will her talent for raising campaign cash turn into a liability?
-
Northern Ireland, South Africa in Secret Iraq Peace Talks
Tom Hayden : Peacemakers from countries that have moved from sectarian strife towards national reconciliation met with Iraq Sunnis and Shi'as in an effort to resolved the crisis.
-
Google: Search and Data Seizure
Jeffrey Chester : Google's bid to acquire DoubleClick will make it the most powerful player in interactive marketing on the planet. But it poses threats to our privacy, politics and democratic aspirations for the Internet.
-
Political Punk: Rage Against the Band
Akiva Gottlieb : Now with a major label, political punk rockers Against Me! have released what may be the year's best album. But have they sold out?
-
Jessica Valenti: Full Frontal Feminism
Molly Bennett : A conversation with the author and Feministing.com founder about why the next wave of feminist activism will take place online.
-
When Monks Get Mad
Andrew Lam : If you think the Buddhist monks challenging the military regime in Myanmar are passive and peaceful, think again.
-
television
Ken Burns's War
Christopher Hayes : His nostalgic PBS series casts WWII as acrucible of meaning. Too bad it lacked a tighter focus on the moral failure of combat.
-
Protecting the Wiretappers
Aziz Huq : Telecommunications giants already are shielded from lawsuits for future warrantless spying; now the White House seeks to absolve them of past misdeeds.
-
Lawyers Join Monks to Defy Myanmar's 'Forced Politics'
Lawyers in Myanmar joined forces this week with Buddhist monks to demand national reconciliation and an end to human rights abuse.
-
Myanmar: A Monk Confronts A General
U Thangara Linkhara : In a letter to Myanmar strongman Than Shwe, the abbot of a Yangon monastery calls the regime to account for its corruption and the suffering it has imposed on the Burmese people.
Cover design by José Chicas & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
Get the Full Experience!
