The Chosen People The Chosen People
The Jewish Century defies the conventional view of Jews as outsiders and traces their symbiotic relationship with Christians. A History of the Jews in the Modern World follows the ...
Nov 30, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare
Bush’s Iraq Outdoes Saddam Bush’s Iraq Outdoes Saddam
Ethnic cleansing, chemical weapons, self-appointed executioners: Sound familiar? The US occupation in Iraq has created conditions just as bad--if not worse--than Saddam Hussein's r...
Nov 30, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer
The Fight to Save Stanley Tookie Williams The Fight to Save Stanley Tookie Williams
As the clock ticks down to former gang leader Stanley Tookie Williiams's scheduled execution on December 13, football great Jim Brown is helping lead the fight to convince Governor...
Nov 29, 2005 / Feature / Dave Zirin
Eggs vs Ethics in Stem Cell Debate Eggs vs Ethics in Stem Cell Debate
Reports of ethical breaches in the harvesting of human eggs for stem cell research in Korea has focused attention on the need to protect the health and welfare of women who might...
Nov 29, 2005 / Feature / Marcy Darnovsky and Emily Galpern
Doing Time Doing Time
Republicans may want to reconsider their current efforts to curtail habeas corpus, since it looks like they are intent on taking over yet another branch of government, the federal...
Nov 29, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Beyond Wilkerson’s Remark on Cheney as a War Criminal Beyond Wilkerson’s Remark on Cheney as a War Criminal
Larry Wilkerson, who was chief of staff to Colin Powell at the State department, is in the news again. He first made headlines several weeks ago by accusing...
Nov 29, 2005 / David Corn
Al Franken Overrules Antonin Scalia Al Franken Overrules Antonin Scalia
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is, supposedly, a very smart man.Indeed, he is frequently referred to as the intellectual giant on the current highcourt. Yet, when Scalia wa...
Nov 28, 2005 / John Nichols
Did Bush Really Want to Bomb Al Jazeera? Did Bush Really Want to Bomb Al Jazeera?
Given the Administration's record of attacking Al Jazeera verbally and militarily, is it conceivable that President Bush tried to convince Tony Blair to bomb its international head...
Nov 23, 2005 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill
G.M. Stumps the Senators G.M. Stumps the Senators
With assembly plant shut-downs and a massive layoff of 5,000 workers, GM has seen better days. Those include the 1950s, when GM was in trouble with the Senate for being too powerfu...
Nov 23, 2005 / Feature / John Keats
Cheney’s Trouble with the Truth Cheney’s Trouble with the Truth
No other modern politician has come so close as Dick Cheney has to perfecting the theater of the absurd. Even as he protests his innocence of lying about matters of state, he lies ...
Nov 23, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer