How the Peace Movement Can Win
Tom Hayden : For war opponents, the election year is a moment of great opportunity--and peril. The challenge is to leverage antiwar sentiment into a victory for peace.
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Jeff Faux on Citigroup and Mexico, Alexander Cockburn on recycling, Calvin Trillin on Huckabee and Romney.
Articles
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War Comes Home to Iowa
Ari Berman : The absence of a definitive antiwar candidate has divided the state's peace activists.
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Fumbling Florida
Bob Moser : Have Democrats already blown the biggest swing state?
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Battle of the Surge
: Don't believe the GOP triumphalists: the decline in violence in Iraq does not mean the surge is working.
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Spectacle at Annapolis
Roane Carey : A lame-duck President's halfhearted diplomacy yields much hypocrisy and few results. But at least the leaders will keep talking.
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Noted.
: Kevin Rudd's victory in Australia, Hillary's planted questions and remembering Alfred Knobler.
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Citi's Mexican Cronies
Jeff Faux : As megabanks seek a subprime bailout, take a lesson from Mexico. Taxpayers of the world, hold on to your wallets.
Reviews
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Dark Rooms
Susie Linfield : The photographers who documented the Spanish Civil War captured the heart of battle in ways that now seem iconic but were then radically new.
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Orwelled
Peter C. Baker : A recent collection of essays brings George Orwell into the new millennium.
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Dreamlife Without Angels
Ange Mlinko : John Ashbery has given us the ideal poetry for the Information Age.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
Bare-Bones Huckabee Creeps Up on Free-Spending Romney in Iowa, While Humming 'O Tannenbaum'
Calvin Trillin : Great hair and lots of money can't get you everything.
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The Dialectics of Revolution... Uh, Recycling
Alexander Cockburn : Looking askance at a practice widely supposed to be a pretty good idea.
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LOOKOUT
Guns Beat Green: The Market Has Spoken
Naomi Klein : If you're looking for a sure bet in the new growth market, sell solar and buy surveillance. Forget wind, buy weapons.
Web
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TruthDig
Bush on Iran: Fool Me Twice
Robert Scheer : Despite new evidence on Iran's nuclear ambitions, President Bush is sticking to his story--an inflated threat assessment some leading Democrats have bought into.
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Moral Compass
TransAfrica's Tribute to Ruby Dee
Walter Mosley : "She is our elder and our sister and our daughter. We celebrate her as we celebrate the moon: our guide through the dark, dark night."
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Civic Agriculture = Sane Housing
Nevin Cohen : There is an alternative to unhealthy eating and irresponsible development schemes.
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Heartland Forum Tackles the Real Issues
Christopher Hayes : Pushing past TV's divisive debate format, a unusual forum in Iowa Saturday pushed Democratic candidates to really explain where they stand on pollution, immigration and predatory lending.
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McMansions Meet the Mortgage Crisis
Barbara Ehrenreich : Homeowners in gated communities now facing foreclosure are learning there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo man.
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Students for a Free Pakistan
Jayati Vora : Putting blogs, cellphones and text messages to work, Pakistani students around the world are rallying against Musharraf's martial law.
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Home Sweet Gone
Nomi Prins : The subprime crisis was not just caused by lending run amok, but by unrestrained trading that made a precarious situation even worse.
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Stop the Subprime Tsunami
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson : Predatory lending is the biggest economic crisis since 1929, especially for the black and brown people caught in its grip.
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Download A Song--Lose Your Loan
The big copyright owners have found yet another way to threaten students' access to education.
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Between T.I. and the Isis Papers
There's been a national wave of violence by whites against blacks since the Jena 6 march.
Cover by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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