The Price of a Life The Price of a Life
Sure, the US government values the lives of innocents killed in combat. Just how much depends on whether they died in New York, Afghanistan or Iraq.
May 14, 2007 / Feature / Tom Engelhardt
Motives Behind Virginia Tech Massacre Found! Lit Profs to Blame Motives Behind Virginia Tech Massacre Found! Lit Profs to Blame
Virginia Tech's commencement exercises took place this week. Columnists across the country weighed in to consider the impact of last month's massacre on the surviving students, to ...
May 14, 2007 / Karen Houppert
Hagelberg! Bloomha! For ’08! Maybe Hagelberg! Bloomha! For ’08! Maybe
"This country is in trouble. The world is in trouble. And we need some new, fresh, independent ideas to lead this country forward." Sounds a like the opening line from a presiden...
May 14, 2007 / John Nichols
Big Business Invades Your Mailbox Big Business Invades Your Mailbox
Note: I appeared on American Public Media's Marketplace todayto talk about sharp increases in US postal rates that will have a serious impacton independent journals. Here's a tr...
May 14, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
For Mothers, the US is Not Number One (Not Even Close) For Mothers, the US is Not Number One (Not Even Close)
Last week your humble correspondent learned, over a dry repast of catered chicken with some of our nation's most influential men, that unlike Canada and many other civilized democr...
May 13, 2007 / Liza Featherstone
Michael Moore Exposes ‘Sicko’ US Cuba Policy Michael Moore Exposes ‘Sicko’ US Cuba Policy
Michael Moore meet Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell's former chief of staff. I think you'd both agree that the current US policy toward Cuba is the "dumbest policy on...
May 12, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
While We Slept While We Slept
A new book on the history of Western complicity in Iraq takes an unsparing look at how the first Bush and Clinton administrations set the stage for disaster.
May 11, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stanley I. Kutler
Oh, Those Skinny Clavicles! Oh, Those Skinny Clavicles!
The New York Times' Style section is always good for a laugh -- nothing lights up my day like a breathlessly earnest piece on the new fanny pack masquerading as serious journalism....
May 11, 2007 / Lakshmi Chaudhry
Outsourcing the War Outsourcing the War
Testimony to Congress on the impact of private military contractors in Iraq.
May 11, 2007 / Jeremy Scahill
Immigrants Push Western Union to Share the Wealth Immigrants Push Western Union to Share the Wealth
Outraged at the 17 percent fees they are charged on money they wire home, immigrant workers are pressuring Western Union to reinvest the profits.
May 11, 2007 / Feature / Gabriel Thompson