Typecast as a Terrorist Typecast as a Terrorist
The detainment of two actors from The Road to Guantánamo reveals a legal apparatus that is no longer able to distinguish between real and invented threats.
Mar 10, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Adam Federman
Sweet Victory: The Resolutions Roll In Sweet Victory: The Resolutions Roll In
Co-written by Sam Graham-Felsen. No matter how many polls show that the majorityof American citizens (and eventroops) want a speedy withdrawal from Iraq, the stay-the-course cons...
Mar 10, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Patriot Act Politics Patriot Act Politics
Rarely has the disconnect between the faith of the American people in the bedrock principle that it is possible to be safe and free and the failure of faith on the part of their e...
Mar 10, 2006 / John Nichols
Vermont Paper Embraces Impeachment Push Vermont Paper Embraces Impeachment Push
When five Vermont towns voted for resolutions urging Congress to impeach President Bush, there were many in the media who dismissed the move as purely symbolic. But the local daily...
Mar 10, 2006 / Adam Howard
Could This Unleash an Unintended Nuclear War? Could This Unleash an Unintended Nuclear War?
Ann Tyson reports in the Washington Post yesterday that the Pentagon wants $500 million to convert 24 Trident missiles currently armed with nuclear warheads into rockets carrying c...
Mar 9, 2006 / Adam Howard
Consuming Desires Consuming Desires
Thank You for Smoking praises the professional hucksters of the cigarette companies, and Duck Season is a road movie in which the scenery doesn't change.
Mar 9, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Unborn in the USA Unborn in the USA
In his captivating new book Absolute Convictions, Eyal Press explores the links between his hometown's post-Vietnam decline and its emergence as a battlefield in the national crusa...
Mar 9, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Mark Sorkin
The Dream Life The Dream Life
In The Power of Movies, Colin McGinn asserts that films are the medium best suited to imitate the workings of the dreaming mind.
Mar 9, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Gilberto Perez
The Great Black Hope The Great Black Hope
Taylor Branch concludes his staggering trilogy of the civil rights era with At Canaan's Edge, a relentlessly detailed narrative of Martin Luther King's desperate struggle to save t...
Mar 9, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Gerald Early
Can You Say ‘Permanent Bases’? Can You Say ‘Permanent Bases’?
Despite recent press visits, the building of bases in Iraq has not come under much scrutiny. If Congress and opposition Democrats continue to ignore the issue, there will be no wit...
Mar 9, 2006 / Feature / Tom Engelhardt