The Copenhagen Disaccord

Activists are figuring out what went wrong at the climate summit and what to do next.

Mark Hertsgaard

The Transformation of Hamas

Palestine's Islamic movement has subtly changed its uncompromising posture on Israel.

Fawaz A. Gerges

Imposing Middle East Peace

Forceful outside intervention is the only alternative to an unstable and dangerous status quo.

Henry Siegman

How to Save Journalism

The patriotic case for government action.

John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney

Blackwater Injustice

A federal judge has dismissed all charges against the five Blackwater operatives accused of gunning down fourteen innocent Iraqis in Baghdad's Nisour Square in 2007.

Jeremy Scahill

Noted.

Remembering poet Dennis Brutus and anti-globalization activist Tim Costello.

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Looting Social Security

The Washington Post has run a "news" article about deficit reduction produced by The Fiscal Times, an outfit backed by Social Security demonizer Pete Peterson.

William Greider

The Terror Trap

The attempted airliner attack on Christmas Day demonstrates that the best antidote to terrorism is not military action but good intelligence, police work and appropriate security measures.

the Editors

David Levine

David Levine, who died on December 29 at 83, was best known for his brilliant, biting, crosshatched caricatures of literary and political figures, which until his vision gave out had appeared reg

the Editors

Don’t Blame China

In the great American tradition of finding foreign scapegoats for our problems, the hunt is on to somehow hold China responsible for the misery that Wall Street financiers inflicted upon the world.

Robert Scheer

The Decade for Women: Forward, Backward, Sideways?

Feminist highs and lows of the first decade of the 2000s.

Katha Pollitt

From Genesis to Gaia

If a conclusive disrespecting of Genesis was required, wouldn't you think R. Crumb was the man for the job?

Alexander Cockburn

One Lesson That We Hope Airport Security Screeners Will Learn From the Attempted Airliner Bombing on Christmas Day

A vital lesson.

Calvin Trillin

Imaginariums

James Cameron's Avatar, Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and more.

Stuart Klawans

After Macondo: On Evelio Rosero

In Evelio Rosero's The Armies, war is like the Law in Kafka: cruel, implacable and coldly divine.

Ben Ehrenreich

History Unforeseen: On Sylvia Townsend Warner

In the fiction of Sylvia Townsend Warner, historical change is accidental and almost imperceptible, but for all that no less decisive.

David Carroll Simon

Nocturnal Crossing

Aimé Césaire

Letters

Ho-Hum Sports, Hi-Ho Zirin!

 

Eric Alterman and Our Readers

Puzzle No. 653

ACROSS

 1 Not the campfires watched, by Rebel pickets. (8,6)

Frank W. Lewis