July 4, 2005 Issue
Cover art by: Cover photo-illustration by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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Feature
Mark Felt’s Other Legacy
Mark Felt is one of only two people who has been prosecuted for COINTELPRO crimes.
Dan Berger
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Taking Heat for Sweatshops
Despite its efforts to silence whistleblowers, Wal-Mart remains under fire for abusing its workers.
Liza Featherstone
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Sam Brownback’s Blind Ambition Tour
The Kansas senator has been grandstanding for the right for years, and now he has his sights set on the White House.
Max Blumenthal
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Bolivia’s Battle of Wills
Despite elections now expected this summer, Bolivia remains locked in a political stalemate, with core issues unresolved and the path forward unclear.
Christian Parenti
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A Matter of Opinion Audio
Victor Navasky and E.L. Doctorow discuss the importance of dissenting publications.
The Nation
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How Deep Throat Fooled the FBI
During the most heated moments of the Watergate scandal, W. Mark Felt was assigned the mission of unearthing and stopping Deep Throat.
David Corn and Jeff Goldberg
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Editorial
Happy 100th, IWW
On June 27, 1905, William “Big Bill” Haywood exhorted an audience in Chicago’s Brand Hall to organize one big union, seize the means of production and emancipate the workers of the world “from
The Editors
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Letter From Ground Zero
When the truth comes out in Iraq, America’s grotesque misadventure there will be brought to a close.
Jonathan Schell
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Whistleblowing: My Story
Government employees should never have to choose between their conscience and their career.
Jesselyn Radack
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MIA: News of Prison Toll
The media has ignored prisoner deaths suffered at American hands.
Todd Gitlin
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Sins & the Citi
Where is the public’s outrage over corruption in US finance and banking?
William Greider
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The War Debate Reopens
America has reached a turning point in its debate on the Iraq war.
The Editors
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Column
Even Bush’s GOP Allies Are Breaking Ranks
Several Republicans in Congress now recognize that the situation in Iraq is only getting worse.
Robert Scheer
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Clinton Agonistes
John Harris’s history of the Clinton Administration deserves much of the praise it has received, but it ignores the media’s anti-Clinton animus.
Eric Alterman
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Just a Theory
Recently it seems discussion on culture goes well beyond careless epithet and into a land with no common ground.
Patricia J. Williams
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Cheney Says Iraq Insurgents Are in ‘Last Throes’
A poem on Dick Cheney and his penchant for war.
Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
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Tug of War
The reality of America’s role in the cold war was far more complex and ambiguous than historical accounts suggest.
Andrew J. Bacevich
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Clinton Agonistes
John Harris’s history of the Clinton Administration deserves much of the praise it has received, but it ignores the media’s anti-Clinton animus.
Eric Alterman
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A Fistful of Dollars
She was a saint, Renée Zellweger, with her brave chin all a-tremble, never saying a harsh word to her husband no matter how the little ones wheezed and shivered in the cruel, cruel cold,
Stuart Klawans
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The Principle of Hope
The death of Lebanese journalist Samir Kassir is a terrible blow to the cause of Arab freedom.
Adam Shatz
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Letters