The Battle for Human Rights The Battle for Human Rights
Which idea of human rights will prevail: Western notions of freedom from fear or poorer nations' insistence on freedom from want?
Dec 3, 2008 / Feature / Barbara Crossette
Who Are the Taliban? Who Are the Taliban?
Who, exactly, are the Taliban? It's clear Afghan insurgents are far from monolithic.
Dec 3, 2008 / Feature / Anand Gopal
Obama’s Afghan Dilemma Obama’s Afghan Dilemma
Obama calls Afghanistan "the right war." But sending more US troops into the quagmire will only make the crisis worse.
Dec 3, 2008 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss
Bread, Bombs, and the Big Stimulus Bread, Bombs, and the Big Stimulus
In 2007, over 37 million Americans, or 12.5 percent of the US population, lived below the federal poverty line--$21,200 for a family of four (well below the income truly required ...
Dec 3, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
He’s Baaaaack! Holbrooke, that is. He’s Baaaaack! Holbrooke, that is.
The other shoe is dropping. Now that Hillary is feathering her nest at State, it seems likely that a flock of Democratic hawks -- or are they vultures? -- will be settling in, too...
Dec 3, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
Can Obama Stay the Course? Can Obama Stay the Course?
As he drives his team of retreads, the challenge for Obama is to remain the agent of change who electrified the nation.
Dec 3, 2008 / Column / Robert Scheer
Bush Labor Department Hurries to Change Toxic Substance Rules Before Obama Takes Office Bush Labor Department Hurries to Change Toxic Substance Rules Before Obama Takes Office
White House duck vs. the coal-mine canary.
Dec 2, 2008 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Can you help “Nickie”? Can you help “Nickie”?
In the endless debate over abortion, we can forget the concrete reality in which pregnant girls and women so often live. Feminists for Life and other anti-choice groups make it so...
Dec 2, 2008 / Katha Pollitt
‘Lost as Food and Won as a Coast’ ‘Lost as Food and Won as a Coast’
Is a new, computer-generated poetry anthology as intriguing--and boring--as the lifework of any fairly prolific poet?
Dec 2, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky