Liza Featherstone reports on last week's antiwar demonstration in Washington, DC, Sasha Abramsky travels to rural California to assess the impact of rising fuel prices on working people and Arthur C. Danto parses the meaning of architect Peter Eisenman's Holocaust memorial in Berlin.

Articles

  • Running on Fumes

    Sasha Abramsky : Unless the federal government does something now, rising gas prices have the potential to break the blue-collar backbone of many American towns.

  • Can It Happen Here?

    Richard Alba & Nancy Foner : With religious school vouchers and public displays of the Ten Commandments on government monuments, the United States is following Europe's path to a melding of Christianity and the state. That's no way to instill loyalty among Islamic immigrants. Subscribe

  • A Disease for Every Pill

    Ray Moynihan & Alan Cassels : What do you do if you want to profit from the everyday aches and pains of human existence? Invent a disease, then convince people they need drugs to cure it.

  • Letter From Iran

    Negar Azimi : While his ideological style may be rough, is Iran's newly elected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the fire-breathing conservative that the mainstream Western media makes of him? Subscribe

Letters

Editorials & Comment

  • Out of Gas

    : Before 9/11, the Bush Administration thought tax breaks and environmental deregulation would solve the energy crisis. They were wrong. Now it's time for policies that promote conservation and energy alternatives.

  • Global Storm Warning

    Mark Hertsgaard : Scientists universally recognize the devastating effects of global warming, including its possible role in creating Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. It's time for skeptics to listen up before another devastating storm hits.

  • Peaceniks Flood DC

    Liza Featherstone : Last week's antiwar rally in Washington sent a single, unequivocal message: At home and abroad, the Bush Administration is a complete failure. Subscribe

  • Gitmo's Hunger Strikers

    Clive Stafford Smith : The US military is keeping the ongoing hunger strike and forced feedings of Guantanamo Bay under wraps. And an apathetic American media is showing no interest in exposing the situation.

  • In Fact...

    : Critics have attacked Gulf Coast reconstruction, but the system--or at least Bush's system--is working just fine. Just ask the usual suspects who are raking in the cash. Subscribe

  • Minority/Majority

    Minority/Majority

    David Sirota : Three senators caved and supported the nomination of John G. Roberts Jr. as Supreme Court Chief Justice. But one lawmaker, banking on the public's cynicism of the oil industry, wants to tax its windfall profits. Subscribe

  • 'The Hammer' Gets Hit

    Ari Berman : Tom DeLay's indictment on criminal conspiracy charges comes at a moment of acute public awareness of the culture of corruption the GOP has created. What happens next is up to the Democrats.

  • AIDS Cure

    David Levine Subscribe

Reviews

  • book

    Crime and Punishment

    Mark M. Anderson : A recent surge of novels and memoirs reveals for the first time the ways in which Germans suffered from Allied "total war" strategy during World War II.

  • book

    Fighting the Abyss

    Noah Isenberg : Although The Aesthetics of Resistance delves into leftist notions of art and class struggle, this account of an anti-Nazi youth group in Germany seems outdated now. Subscribe

  • art

    Mute Point

    Arthur C. Danto : The undulating monoliths in architect Peter Eisenman's Holocaust memorial in Berlin are more banal than beautiful--which suits Eisenman fine.

Columns

Web

  • Column Left

    The Action-Figure Governator

    Robert Scheer : Faced with an historic opportunity to give gay couples equal protection under the law, Arnold Schwarzenegger proved he was made of bendable plastic.

  • Darwin and God

    Dr. Marc Siegel : Darwin's discoveries about evolution never argued against the existence of God. And the theory of "intelligent design" is a dangerous attempt to undermine science and justify a literal reading of the Bible. Subscribe

  • Bill Bennett's Abortion Fantasies

    Mark Sorkin : What's really shocking about Bill Bennett's public fantasies of reducing crime by aborting black babies is the ease with which conservative critics cast lawlessness in racial terms.

  • 25 Questions About the Murder of New Orleans

    Mike Davis & Anthony Fontenot : New Orleans did not die an accidental death--it was murdered by deliberate design and planned neglect. Here are twenty-five urgent questions from the people who live in a city submerged in anger and frustration.

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