As doubts grow about the humanity and constitutionality of lethal injection, California, Florida and Maryland have shut down executions. America’s flight from the death penalty continues.
The fall and rise of Joe Lieberman was one of the major political events of 2006. But in 2007, Beltway and netroots pundits agree, he will be as irrelevant as George W. Bush.
Facing a showdown court-martial for refusing to serve in an illegal and unjust war, Lieut. Ehren Watada has become a flashpoint for the antiwar movement.
In the most significant movement of dissident soldiers since Vietnam, nearly 1,000 active-duty officers and enlisted personnel have petitioned the government to withdraw from Iraq.
The flap over Jimmy Carter’s new book underscores that the Israel lobby in the United States exists to serve only the interests of the Israeli right wing.
In Five Germanys I Have Known–part memoir, part extended rumination on German-Jewish identity–Fritz Stern revisits his family’s past and finds that he has never been quite at home.
Hitler’s Beneficiaries advances a controversial, deeply flawed argument that Germans failed to revolt against the Nazis because Hitler established a welfare state built on plunder.