June 11, 2007 Issue

Cover art by: Cover art by Victor Juhasz; design: Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels

Feature

Colossus of Baghdad

As conditions worsen inside Baghdad’s embattled Green Zone, construction continues on a grandiose US Embassy complex that mirrors Bush Administration delusions of a reordered Middle East. Take a virtual tour.
Tom Engelhardt
More Like It Hot

To live and dine in California, where one in four is an immigrant, is to sit at a global table. And a bland national cuisine is heating up.
Andrew Lam
CEOs vs. Slaves

New chasms are opening in the unequal terrain of American society: To the ranks of exploited domestics and factory workers, consider the emerging proletariat of adjunct faculty and temporary attorneys.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Hip Heterodoxy

A group of economists is challenging the most basic assumptions of neoclassical economic theory, and their influence is growing.
Chris Hayes
The Secret Air War in Iraq

Bombs from American planes are killing tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians, and no one in the mainstream media is talking about it.
Nick Turse
Exodus

Iraq has prompted the fastest-growing refugee crisis in the world, and it’s threatening to destabilize the entire region.
Stephen Glain

Editorial

Wolfowitz and the Bank

Paul Wolfowitz’s resignation won’t reform the World Bank. But it could spark a new era of independence from the International Monetary Fund.
Mark Weisbrot
No-Sweat Sit-Ins Hit Academe

Will a donation from Nike deflect Stanford’s efforts to curb sweatshop labor in the making of its sports regalia?
The Editors
Iraq Timeline Runs Out

What is it that Congressional Democrats don’t get about the Iraq debate?
The Editors
Raw Deal on Immigration

The Senate’s “grand bargain” on immigration may be the best deal to be done in the present political climate, but it’s still not good enough.
The Editors
Sick Justice

Alberto Gonzales now stands revealed as an unambiguous conspirator against the Constitution–as does his boss.
The Editors
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Column

Welcome, Baby Cheney

Now that Dick Cheney’s lesbian daughter has presented him with a grandson, maybe it’s time for Grandpa to join PFLAG.
Robert Scheer
Jason Giambi, Truthteller

Jason Giambi finally got around to telling the truth about baseball and steroids. So naturally, Major League Baseball is out to smear him.
Dave Zirin
‘Feckless’? No Way!

Who says American feminists have ignored the plight of Muslim women?
Katha Pollitt
The Greenhousers Strike Back, and Strike Out

More contrarian thinking on climate change.
Alexander Cockburn
A Letter to Paul Wolfowitz on How His Departure From the World Bank Will Be Dealt With in His Obituary

Out, out, damned spot!
Calvin Trillin

Books & the Arts

Colossus of Baghdad

As conditions worsen inside Baghdad’s embattled Green Zone, construction continues on a grandiose US Embassy complex that mirrors Bush Administration delusions of a reordered Middle East. Take a virtual tour.
Tom Engelhardt
Dreamscape

Reviews of the animated psychoanalytic sci-fi thriller Paprika, 9 Star Hotel and Poison Friends.
Stuart Klawans
The Doctor Stories

Atul Gawande offers up a banal self-help manual for aspiring MDs, while Pauline Chen prescribes a dose of compassion.
Lizzy Ratner
Lengths

1

Evening succeeds evening.

Demons discourse
on familiar topics.
Rae Armantrout
An African Solution

Two new books on the AIDS epidemic in Africa suggest that the best treatment may be found in the continent’s own social movements.
Andrew Rice
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