Why Bush Shed His GI Joe Gear Why Bush Shed His GI Joe Gear
Has anyone noticed that our commander-in-chief no longer plays dress up? He hasn't done so for a while and that's no small thing. It's a phenomenon that came and went almost with...
Sep 21, 2007 / TomDispatch
Blackwater, Oil and the Colonial Enterprise Blackwater, Oil and the Colonial Enterprise
Blackwater USA's mercenary mission in Iraq is very much in the news this week, and rightly so. The private military contractor's war-for-profit program, which has been so brillian...
Sep 21, 2007 / John Nichols
Dan Rather Won’t Take any “Bullshine” Dan Rather Won’t Take any “Bullshine”
It was riveting television. There was former CBS news anchor Dan Rather, sitting across from CNN's Larry King, railing against the threat powerful media corporations pose to freed...
Sep 21, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Democrats Stab MoveOn in the Back Democrats Stab MoveOn in the Back
Memo to Democrats: you control the Congress. That means you can decide what bills come to the floor for votes--and what don't. So why, in a week where Republicans blocked the resto...
Sep 21, 2007 / Ari Berman
Bush Loses It With MoveOn Bush Loses It With MoveOn
President Bush has made it clear that he does not read newspapers. And there is little reason to believe that the chief executive spends much time viewing serious news programs be...
Sep 20, 2007 / John Nichols
The Logic of Survival The Logic of Survival
In order to preserve his way of life
Odysseus threaded the necks
of twenty faithless servant girls
and hung them in his courtyard
Sep 20, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Moxley
Abalone Abalone
Abalone Rumsen aulón
Aristotle auriform Costanoans
cultivated, Brueghel painted,
awabi Osahi dove for
on September 12, 425 A.D.
Sep 20, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Jeffrey Yang
Class Acts Class Acts
The left's literary canon has neglected the contributions less-celebrated writers have made to the political significance of literature.
Sep 20, 2007 / Books & the Arts / J. Hoberman
Root and Branch Root and Branch
A Canadian philosopher surveys some of the livelier flashpoints in America's battle over evolution.
Sep 20, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Ian Hacking
The High Price of Beauty The High Price of Beauty
A scourge of health problems has nail salon workers wondering about the industry's safety standards.
Sep 20, 2007 / Feature / Virginia Sole-Smith