The Threat of Hope in Latin America The Threat of Hope in Latin America
Across Latin America indigenous movements redrawing the continent's political map, demanding not just "rights" but a reinvention of the state along deeply democratic lines.
Nov 3, 2005 / Column / Naomi Klein
Can We Talk? Can We Talk?
Liberals need to find a means to bridge the gap between Americans' belief in liberal solutions and their willingness to trust liberals to enact them.
Nov 3, 2005 / Column / Eric Alterman
Genes, Genius, Genies Genes, Genius, Genies
The right has ushered in a moment of cult celebrity for the pre-born. But let's not be seduced by this idea of personhood. Remember the poor and not-so-perfect post-born children ...
Nov 3, 2005 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Scooter Libby: A Republican Nursery Rhyme Scooter Libby: A Republican Nursery Rhyme
Catching small fry, letting the big fish go.
Nov 3, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Calvin Trillin
Faith and Fraud Faith and Fraud
The fictional world created by the Bush Administration over its five years in power is falling to pieces, with the blood-soaked folly in Iraq, a ruined environment, massive corrupt...
Nov 3, 2005 / Jonathan Schell
Assad on the Brink Assad on the Brink
The Baathist regime is the most opaque on earth, and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must develop a strategy to save himself and his regime, as the UN investigation of the assasin...
Nov 3, 2005 / David Hirst
Rise of an Opposition? Rise of an Opposition?
As remarkable as the concept may sound after years of Democratic dysfunction, something akin to a two-party system appeared to take shape November 1, the week after Scooter Lib...
Nov 3, 2005 / John Nichols
Intolerable Cruelty Intolerable Cruelty
If the US is to prevail in the war on terror, we must do it by distinguishing ourselves from the enemy. Torture and degrading treatment are as morally evil as terrorism, because th...
Nov 3, 2005 / David Cole
After the Libby Indictment After the Libby Indictment
The CIA leak scandal has revealed the Bush crew's dishonesty and hypocrisy. But don't expect the Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald or Bush to ever explain what really happened.
Nov 3, 2005 / David Corn