Obama’s Limits: An Interview With Andrew Bacevich Obama’s Limits: An Interview With Andrew Bacevich
"We have presidential elections as a substitute for serious democratic politics" – that's what Andrew Bacevich says. He's been writing and teaching history and int...
Aug 28, 2008 / The Notion / Jon Wiener
Letters Letters
Update on Sgt. Pequeño Amherst, Mass.
Jul 30, 2008 / Letters / Jon Wiener and Our Readers
Bogus Campus Anti-Semitism Bogus Campus Anti-Semitism
Accusations by right-wing Zionists of anti-Semitism at the University of California, Irvine, are suspect at best.
Jun 19, 2008 / Feature / Jon Wiener
City of Fear City of Fear
A new book explores the historical ties between African-American and Japanese-American communities in Los Angeles.
Jun 11, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
J. Edgar Hoover, Author J. Edgar Hoover, Author
A new book reveals the FBI Director's distinctive relationship with his publisher.
May 22, 2008 / Editorial / Jon Wiener
McCain’s Pastor Hagee on Hitler and the Jews McCain’s Pastor Hagee on Hitler and the Jews
John Hagee, the controversial pastor who has endorsed John McCain, argued in a late 1990s sermon that God sent Hitler to help the Jews get to the promised land (Israel, not Auschwi...
May 22, 2008 / The Notion / Jon Wiener
Nixonland, Then and Now Nixonland, Then and Now
"Nixonland" – that's Rick Perlstein's term for the political world where candidates win power by mobilizing people's resentments, anxieties and anger, where politic...
May 18, 2008 / The Notion / Jon Wiener
McCain’s Medical Records: Why the Delay? McCain’s Medical Records: Why the Delay?
The mainstream media ask Obama why he doesn't wear a flag pin, but they aren't asking McCain why he doesn't release his medical records. McCain, who would be the oldest man ever e...
Apr 20, 2008 / The Notion / Jon Wiener
Obama and the Palestinian Professors Obama and the Palestinian Professors
Ten years ago, Barack Obama went to a lecture by Edward Said, the prominent Palestinian intellectual. Should that be page one news now? The LA Times thinks so – they ran a ...
Apr 10, 2008 / The Notion / Jon Wiener
Communists in the Schools: Controversy in California Communists in the Schools: Controversy in California
The California legislature is considering a bill to repeal the law, passed in the heyday of McCarthyism, that permits the firing of Communist Party members who teach in public scho...
Apr 6, 2008 / The Notion / Jon Wiener