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Feature
Polygamists’ Kids in Their Own Private Gitmo
A mass detention. Vague legal charges. Emotional abuse. Hostile overseers. This isn’t Guantánamo–it’s Texas. And the victims are children the state wants to protect.
Richard Wexler
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‘Like He Died Twice’: Mary Tillman’s Lonely Quest
The mother of Pat Tillman–football star, Army ranger and casualty of war–reflects on how the Pentagon has distorted the truth and the NFL has exploited the tragedy.
Dave Zirin
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Got Milk? Get Investigated
State and federal authorities are relying on undercover agents to entrap dairy farmers.
David E. Gumpert
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Tiny Soap Bubbles
This Week: Kang and Valdez explore each other’s bodies and minds, and somebody gets a gun slapped upside their head.
Gary Phillips
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Mixed Blessing
Obama calls for direct dialogue and new trade deals with Latin America, but continued counterinsurgency in Columbia, tensions with Venezuela.
Tom Hayden
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Editorial
J. Edgar Hoover, Author
A new book reveals the FBI Director’s distinctive relationship with his publisher.
Jon Wiener
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Noted.
Sam Adams shakes up Portland; the House votes for peace; we offer kudos to Kors and send get-well wishes to Ted Kennedy.
The Editors
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The Appeasement Card
Despite the Bush/McCain snake oil on Mideast policy, Obama can make the case that talking to your enemies isn’t the same as appeasing Hitler.
The Editors
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Column
Where Is the Outrage Over Torture?
The muted response to revelations of torture raises the question of whether Americans are truly savages or simply tone-deaf on matters of morality.
Robert Scheer
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When Tiger Met Chevron…
Woods’s partnership with Chevron makes a mockery of his late father’s hopes for him.
Dave Zirin
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Déjà Vu in South Dakota
It’s going to take a concerted national effort to defeat the state’s latest anti-choice ballot initiative.
Katha Pollitt
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From Palmyra to Obama
Is it conceivable that Obama, Clinton or McCain could be as bad or worse than Bush?
Alexander Cockburn
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Election 2008: Where They Stand Now
Here’s the latest on Barack Star, the Presumptive Deludee, the Ex-First Black President and more.
Ward Sutton
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Books & the Arts
Tight Corners
When Richard Price moves from the urban ruins of New Jersey to the gentrified Lower East Side of Lush Life, things get complicated.
Elaine Blair
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Beyond Belief
Can the wall between church and state balance the principles of neutrality and accomodation?
Jeff Sharlet
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The Power Conundrum
After railing against non-violent intervention in the face of genocide, Samantha Power rethinks her stand.
Michael Massing
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In the Lost Realm of the Real
Michael Dibdin’s detective Zen series sounds a melancholy note for an old Italy rife with political enemies.
Carl Bromley
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Searching for Traces
There was little enthusiasm for revisiting the camps in Communist Hungary. Author Imre Kertész refracts that reluctance in fictional form.
Ruth Scurr
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The Reminder-General
Tony Judt fears the twenty-first century has spawned a culture hell- bent on forgetting the past.
Stefan Collini
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Dead Letters
Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig saw himself as a Freud of fiction–a fellow spelunker in the caverns of the heart.
William Deresiewicz
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Letters
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Crossword
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Puzzle No. 3128
ACROSS
1 Rex might be found here, but suffering from lack of favor. (2,3,8)
Frank W. Lewis