Compromising Justice Compromising Justice

President Bush and the three Republican Senators opposing his efforts to contravene the Geneva accords have reached an agreement on legislation to clarify which interrogation tech...

Sep 21, 2006 / Peter Rothberg

Dead Flowers Dead Flowers

Reviews of Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia and Kelly Reichardt's Old Joy.

Sep 20, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Father Knows Best Father Knows Best

Have you attacked the Founding Fathers lately? Know anyone who has? Gordon Wood knows you're out there, on a campaign to dehumanize Washington, Jefferson and their peers.

Sep 20, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Nicholas Guyatt

Laundry Laundry

Our cat, who's over nineteen, likes to sleep
on the massed softness of a pile of shirts,
two, three, four, flung on the floor
but soon to be gathered up

Sep 20, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Rachel Hadas

Congress’s Most Corrupt Congress’s Most Corrupt

Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington (CREW), my favorite watchdog group, recently issued a list of the 20 most corrupt members of Congress. Last year, CREW named ...

Sep 20, 2006 / The Nation

Hell of a Times Hell of a Times

A nasty succession battle is brewing at the conservative Washington Times, its newsroom abuzz with allegations of racism, sexism and unprofessional conduct.

Sep 20, 2006 / Feature / Max Blumenthal

Letters Letters

Jonathan Schell's "Too Late for Empire" drew much praise from readers [Aug. 14/21].