My Friend, the Enemy My Friend, the Enemy
Sandy Tolan’s The Lemon Tree is a novelistic account of two intertwined lives, one Palestinian and one Jewish, and a house with two histories.
Oct 12, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Roane Carey
Whose Art Is It Anyway? Whose Art Is It Anyway?
Two books on art controversies and arts funding in America explore how and when taxpayer money can be used to support public art.
Oct 12, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Peter Plagens
Needed: A New Security Plan Needed: A New Security Plan
The failure of Bush's foreign policy should open the way for Democrats to present substantial alternatives and rethink what makes us safe. Sadly, that is not happening.
Oct 12, 2006 / Feature / William D. Hartung
Laboring Toward Election Day Laboring Toward Election Day
Despite the split following the 2004 election, labor groups are gearing up for the November elections like never before.
Oct 12, 2006 / Feature / David Moberg
Paranoia Strikes Deep Paranoia Strikes Deep
Okay, I admit it. As the election approaches, I amfeeling a creepy sense of paranoia. My right brain reads the newspapers,studies the polls and thinks we are looking at a blow-out...
Oct 12, 2006 / The Nation
Taliban Rising Taliban Rising
If the corruption of Karzai's government is Afghanistan's new cancer, then the Taliban are increasingly seen as chemotherapy: an unpleasant but necessary remedy.
Oct 12, 2006 / Feature / Christian Parenti
No ‘Comments’ No ‘Comments’
How can the MSM maintain they hold themselves to higher standards than the Drudge-driven political blogosphere when they ape its most irresponsible practices?
Oct 12, 2006 / Column / Eric Alterman
Warlords of the First Amendment Warlords of the First Amendment
A right-wing radio host on the vanguard of the English Only movement provides a platform for religious crazies to keep them from ruining the funeral of murdered Amish girls.
Oct 12, 2006 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Israel’s Cassandra Israel’s Cassandra
If Israel is to fulfill the Zionist vision of being a state like any other, it must take responsibility for the ever-more explosive Middle East.
Oct 12, 2006 / Arno Mayer
Anna Politkovskaya Anna Politkovskaya
The killing of Anna Politkovskaya has rallied her journalistic colleagues and fellow citizens in a way few other recent events have.
Oct 12, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel