Bush on Iraq Bush on Iraq
He's digging us in, deeper and deeper.
Sep 20, 2007 / Column / Calvin Trillin
‘Jena Is America’ ‘Jena Is America’
Jena, Louisiana, has become a national symbol of racial injustice, as civil rights activists converge on the town to protest a miscarriage of justice against six black teens.
Sep 20, 2007 / Column / Gary Younge
Combatants for Peace Combatants for Peace
This past January a ten year old Palestinian girl, Abir Aramin, was hit by a rubber bullet fired by Israeli Border Police as she was making her way home from school in East Jerusa...
Sep 20, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
An Iraqi “Eliot Ness” Out in the Cold–UPDATED An Iraqi “Eliot Ness” Out in the Cold–UPDATED
Three days ago, I called the State Department with a question: what is the Bush administration doing to help Radhi al-Radhi? The answer appears to be this: ...
Sep 20, 2007 / David Corn
Don’t Like Noam Chomsky? Try Alan Greenspan Don’t Like Noam Chomsky? Try Alan Greenspan
Remember Michael Ignatieff's "Getting Iraq Wrong," the New York Times Sunday Magazine essay in which he explained that he supported the war in Iraq because he was a sensitive...
Sep 20, 2007 / Katha Pollitt
The Times They Are A-Changin’ The Times They Are A-Changin’
Politics aside, a speeded-up primary season may be a unique opportunity to rethink our notions of time altogether.
Sep 20, 2007 / Annabelle Gurwitch
Habeas Corpus and a Senate Race in Maine Habeas Corpus and a Senate Race in Maine
The United States Senate celebrated this week's 220th anniversary of the Constitution by failing to endorse the restoration of the habeas corpus protections that legal scholar Alb...
Sep 20, 2007 / John Nichols
“The Fat Lady Has Not Sung Yet” “The Fat Lady Has Not Sung Yet”
The people of the nation's capital – all 600,000 of them – came closer than ever before to long sought after voting representation in Congress yesterday. But in the end, bipa...
Sep 19, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Prelude to a Police State in Iraq Prelude to a Police State in Iraq
Iraqi Security Forces are riddled with corruption, and if the US involvement continues, Baghdad could become the capital of a Shiite police state employing the classic methods of d...
Sep 19, 2007 / Feature / Tom Hayden
Progressives See No Progress Progressives See No Progress
When it comes to the Iraq War, the 72-member Congressional Progressive Caucus has generally been a source of energy in the Democratic Party, as its members have quite vocally pres...
Sep 19, 2007 / The Nation