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Feature
Hillary’s Nasty Pastorate
When it comes to unsavory religious affiliations, Hillary Clinton is a lot more vulnerable than Obama.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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China’s Olympic Delusion
Cracking down once again in Tibet, China seeks to control the script on its flawed human rights record, yet still be regarded as a suitable host for the Olympics. Dream on.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom
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Blackwater Seeps Into the Campaign
Clinton and Obama each have nuanced plans to ban private security firms from Iraq. The difference is how they’re spinning them.
Jeremy Scahill
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Obama, Politics and the Pulpit
The uproar over intemperate remarks by Obama’s former pastor reveals all that’s repellant in our national discourse over race, religion and politics.
Chris Hayes
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The Experts Speak on Iraq
To mark the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War, some daily inspiration from the experts who led us there.
Victor Navasky and Christopher Cerf
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Tracing Slavery’s Past
On the bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade, a documentarian tries to come to grips with her family’s history in the trade.
Te-Ping Chen
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Daydreaming and I’m Thinking of You
This week’s episode of Citizen Kang: The Congresswoman’s chief of staff gets shot at and Kang lets her mind wander into dangerous territory.
Gary Phillips
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Reviving Vietnam War Tactics
One of Gen. Petraeus’s top advisors advocates a return to the global Phoenix program used during the Vietnam War.
Tom Hayden
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The War and the Working Class
Young people drawn into combat by the “economic draft” are being treated just as poorly as all the other workers in this neoliberal economy.
Michael Zweig
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The Wages of Peace
Spending on the war in Iraq is a job killer. Ending the war would be the real stimulus package.
Robert Pollin and Heidi Garrett-Peltier
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Who Said the War Would Pay for Itself? They Did!
Unwise words from the “experts” who promised a cost-free war.
Victor Navasky and Christopher Cerf
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Editorial
Iraq: The View from Year Six
In March 2009, no matter who is president, Iraq will still be hell on Earth.
Tom Engelhardt
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Notes on a Scandal
The Spitzer affair’s obvious rationality continues to elude the therapists, sexperts and pundits for whom shame is the game.
JoAnn Wypijewski
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Smearing Obama
False claims about Obama intended to stoke racial and religious fear are trickling from the far right to the mainstream media.
Ari Berman
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Border Death Backstory
The trial for the murder of undocumented immigrant Francisco Javier Domínguez stripped him of his humanity. The retrial must not make the same mistake.
Debbie Nathan
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A Sea-Change Election?
The 2008 presidential election could signal the most dramatic political shift since Reagan.
Robert L. Borosage
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Time for a Revote
Holding Democratic primaries in Florida and Michigan a second time would send the message that Americans do not need to accept illegitimate elections.
John Nichols
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The Torture Veto
Bush has made history by being the first American President to use his veto power to preserve torture.
David Cole
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Noted.
PEACE SIGNS: Dusting off an old Clintonian catchphrase, United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) has found a new way to sum up the connection between the war in Iraq and the econom
The Editors
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It’s the War Economy, Stupid!
Among the major causes of the current economic crisis is the staggering cost of the war in Iraq.
The Editors
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Column
Carrying a Torch for Tibet
Protest is as much a part of the Olympic tradition as lighting the torch.
Dave Zirin
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The Idiot’s Grin
Presiding over a disastrous war and an unconscionable taxpayer bailout of Wall Street, why is George W. Bush still smiling?
Robert Scheer
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Economic Chaos, Political Consequences
As the federal bailout of the banking industry continues, is it too much to ask that McCain, Clinton and Obama abandon their blue-sky promises and address reality?
Nicholas von Hoffman
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John Q. Public
Just once it would be nice to see a male politician caught in a sex scandal stand up there at a press conference all by himself.
Katha Pollitt
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The Spitzer Sting
Was there a medium-sized right-wing conspiracy to nail Eliot Spitzer?
Alexander Cockburn
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Democrats Bid a Fond Farewell to Mike Huckabee
Saying goodbye to the Republicans’ funniest candidate.
Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
The Experts Speak on Iraq
To mark the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War, some daily inspiration from the experts who led us there.
Victor Navasky and Christopher Cerf
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Final Fantasy
Susan Faludi’s Terror Dream made a provocative splash, but therapy is no substitute for understanding reality.
David Waldstreicher
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Tracing Slavery’s Past
On the bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade, a documentarian tries to come to grips with her family’s history in the trade.
Te-Ping Chen
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Un Lio Bestial
In his poetry Roberto Bolaño gave himself over to the subversive, to antiheroes, ballad and saga.
Forrest Gander
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Windows Into the Night
The collected nonfiction of Roberto Bolaño is a treasure trove filled with straw and dust, jewels and gold.
Marcela Valdes
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A Garden of Monsters
The imaginary fascists in Roberto Bolaño’s ironic encyclopedia Nazi Literature in the Americas bear a complex relationship to reality.
Carmen Boullosa
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