Israel Is Israel Is
Israel Is Israel is he or she who wrestles with God--call him what you will, not some goon (with a rabbi and gun) in a pre-fab home on a biblical hill....
Apr 3, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Peter Cole
Questions of Loyalty Questions of Loyalty
Revisionist histories of the Vietnam War challenge the notion that the South Vietnam government was a dysfunctional pseudo-state.
Apr 3, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Matt Steinglass
La Zone Grise La Zone Grise
Five books explore the sorrows and moral complexity of Irène Némirovsky and others who suffered Nazi persecution in France.
Apr 3, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Alice Kaplan
Inside the Surge Inside the Surge
The US occupation has torn Iraq into fragments, and sectarian militias are on the rise.
Chalabi’s Lobby Chalabi’s Lobby
Lobbyist Charles Black, now embroiled in controversy as a senior advisor to John McCain, was among those who aided Ahmed Chalabi's deceptive campaign for war in Iraq.
Apr 3, 2008 / Feature / Aram Roston
All Aboard the McCain Express All Aboard the McCain Express
The conservative noise machine is coming around to support him--if it can keep its stories straight.
Apr 3, 2008 / Feature / Rick Perlstein
Where Credit Is Due Where Credit Is Due
To view education as a profit-making business is to attack the lifelong love of learning.
Apr 3, 2008 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Blowing Smoke Blowing Smoke
In Nicholson Baker's cut-and-paste history, the "good war" is bad.
Apr 3, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt
Noted. Noted.
Henry Paulson's pitiful reform; Michelle Bachelet, bedeviled by Opus Dei; Pentagon follies; and indecency in Indiana.
Apr 3, 2008 / The Editors
On the Struggle For The Democratic Nomination On the Struggle For The Democratic Nomination
The race is theirs to lose.
Apr 3, 2008 / Column / Calvin Trillin