Fixing Afghanistan Fixing Afghanistan
Some thoughts on Afghanistan, now that the election's come and gone. I don't usually find inspiration in the pages of the Washington Times, are rarely if ever in the writings of ...
Aug 21, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Congress Must Investigate Ridge Allegations Congress Must Investigate Ridge Allegations
While it may be true that no one in their right mind doubted that the Bush-Cheney administration was manipulating all those color-coded terror alerts for political purposes, forme...
Aug 21, 2009 / John Nichols
What’s Delay’s Dance? What’s Delay’s Dance?
By 9 am on this hot and furious August, I had read everything about the pros & cons of the public option and the outcome of the Afghan elections. I'd even marked passages in rele...
Aug 21, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Marty Peretz (and The New Republic) vs. Starving Children Marty Peretz (and The New Republic) vs. Starving Children
Wrapup: My new "Think Again" column is here. It's called "That Doggone Librul Media, Caught Again... "Also, I did a Daily Beast post this morning trying (hoping) to explainthe s...
Aug 20, 2009 / Eric Alterman
American Majority Agrees: Afghan War’s Not Worth Fighting American Majority Agrees: Afghan War’s Not Worth Fighting
With record numbers of US troops being killed in Afghanistan, with Pentagon expenditures for the war skyrocketing and with little or no evidence that the US occupation is making t...
Aug 19, 2009 / John Nichols
Letter from Kabul Letter from Kabul
(Women for Afghan Women, a humanitarian organization I've supported for many years, runs a shelter for women and children fleeing domestic violence in Kabul, and a smaller one in ...
Aug 19, 2009 / Katha Pollitt
Perils of the Poetry Reading Perils of the Poetry Reading
Am I the only person who finds it hard to follow an unfamiliar poem when I hear it read out loud and don't have the text in front of me? Even when reading to myself at my own ...
Aug 19, 2009 / Katha Pollitt
Iraq Explodes Iraq Explodes
The news from the war capitals isn't good. In Kabul, the Taliban is carrying out attacks at the very center of Afghanistan's capital, rocketing the grounds of the presidential pal...
Aug 19, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Don’t Let the White House Spin the Public Option Debate Don’t Let the White House Spin the Public Option Debate
President Obama referred to the creation of a public program to compete with for-profit health insurers as a mere "sliver" of his reform agenda and then told a Colorado town hall ...
Aug 18, 2009 / John Nichols
Karzai, the Pashtuns, and the Taliban Karzai, the Pashtuns, and the Taliban
The prospects for Afghanistan's election on Thursday are murky, at best. The Taliban are threatening to disrupt the vote in areas south and east of Kabul, where they are strong,...
Aug 17, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss