Immigration and the Security-Technology Complex Immigration and the Security-Technology Complex
Among the chilling proposals in Bush's immigration speech was a plan for a "new identification card for every legal foreign worker" that would use "biometric technology, such as d...
May 19, 2006 / The Nation
“An Affront to the Constitution” “An Affront to the Constitution”
It's an election year, so, quick, let's amend the Constitution. Absurd as it sounds, that is the thinking of the Senate Republican leadership, which is rushing to draft, debate a...
May 19, 2006 / John Nichols
The Scramble for Oil The Scramble for Oil
The Bush Administration's warm embrace of the Equatorial Guinea's despotic President Teodoro Mbasogo demonstrates how low it will go in pursuit of oil.
May 18, 2006 / Feature / Cora Currier
The Tragedy of Undue Pressure The Tragedy of Undue Pressure
Last month I wrote about Haditha, Iraq and allegations that innocent Iraqi civilians had been shot and killed by a unit of U.S. Marines. Today, Rep. John Murtha stated that a mili...
May 18, 2006 / The Nation
Ralph’s Day with Rudy Ralph’s Day with Rudy
John McCain's commencement address at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University attracted a great deal of media scrutiny. Will Rudy Giuliani's big money fundraiser with Ralph Reed today ...
May 18, 2006 / The Nation
In Theory In Theory
In Frontiers of Justice, philosopher Martha Nussbaum explores our moral obligations to the disabled, to nonhuman animals and to the unresolved areas of international law.
May 18, 2006 / Books & the Arts / John Gray
Wind From the Mideast Wind From the Mideast
"The Road to Damascus" explores the strange, the beautiful and the uncanny in Syrian cinema.
May 18, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Supersize Misha Supersize Misha
Absurdistan is a stunning encore for novelist Gary Shteyngart, both the avatar of a new Jewish-American literature and an inveterate Eastern European trickster.
May 18, 2006 / Books & the Arts / J. Hoberman
Dead Souls Dead Souls
Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo, written during the cultural renaissance that followed the Mexican Revolution, is a marvel of storytelling and testament to the power of the word.
May 18, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Carmen Boullosa
The Race to Replace Arnold: Running on Empty The Race to Replace Arnold: Running on Empty
The limp grassroots response to Democratic gubernatorial candidates reveals that the plummeting popularity of one party doesn't automatically translate into support for the other.
May 18, 2006 / Feature / Marc Cooper