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Feature
Pillow Talk
This week’s episode: Cyrus Kang and Conrad Waller find driving in LA can be hazardous, Congresswoman Kang and a LAPD detective get down.
Gary Phillips
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Vermont Students Join May 1 War Protests
As West Coast dockworkers stopped work at twenty-nine ports on May Day, students in Vermont took antiwar protests to the offices of a General Dynamics plant.
Benjamin Dangl
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Stephen F. Cohen: Tributes by Gorbachev and Yevtushenko
A statesman and a poet pay tribute to a historian of Russia.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Mikhail S. Gorbachev
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Guantánamo Ain’t No Joke
Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantánamo Bay is very funny. Nothing about the real place is.
Shayana Kadidal
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Letter From Iran
Iranians’ attitudes toward Ahmadinejad range from sullen tolerance to bitter hostility.
Bob Dreyfuss
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The New Geopolitics of Energy
The Pentagon has now placed resource competition at the center of its strategic planning.
Michael T. Klare
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Race to the Bottom
How Hillary Clinton’s campaign played the race card–and drove a wedge into the feminist movement.
Betsy Reed
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Editorial
Clintons in Denial
Tuesday’s elections show the Clintons are beyond persuasion or capable of thinking beyond their own interests.
Tom Hayden
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Poor Is the New Rich!
As waves of poverty wash over the once-affluent, it’s nice to know that you can share the pain.
Annabelle Gurwitch
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Cruel and Unusual Punishment
As executions resume in the wake of a Supreme Court decision, we are reminded that a life cannot be willfully ended without violence.
Billy Sothern
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The Missing Debate
Why aren’t the presidential candidates talking about Moscow’s impact on our national security?
Stephen F. Cohen
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Obama Under the Weather
Here’s a look at the roots of the campaign that seeks to discredit Barack Obama by linking him to Bill Ayers and the Chicago charity to which they each had ties.
Ari Berman
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Our Lapdog Media
What should we do when Big Media fails democracy? First, don’t let it get any bigger.
The Editors
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Column
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Battle of the Hawks
In the increasingly unlikely event of a McCain-Clinton election, people who care about peace have serious reason to worry.
Robert Scheer
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Let Them Eat Waffles
How can Barack Obama–or any candidate–overcome the sad hypocrisy of our public discourse?
Patricia J. Williams
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Mickey Mouse Media
A serious debate focused about torture, wiretapping, food prices, world hunger… oh, wait. That’s the kind of fairy tale they don’t do at Disney.
Eric Alterman
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John McCain, Demonstrating His Intention to Make Inroads Among African-American Voters…
But guess who showed up instead?
Calvin Trillin
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Taint Funny
Suddenly Obama-Man isn’t feeling so good… he’s only faster than a speeding suction cup arrow now!
Robert Grossman
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Books & the Arts
Looking Past Clichés
The Visitor is that rare film that defines Arabs not as ethnic or religious stereotypes but as individuals.
Laila Lalami
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Guantánamo Ain’t No Joke
Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantánamo Bay is very funny. Nothing about the real place is.
Shayana Kadidal
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Back Talk: John Turturro
Actor John Turturro discusses his latest project, a production of Beckett’s Endgame at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Christine Smallwood
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Photo Ops
Errol Morris’s new documentary Standard Operating Procedure lacks critical distance but produces masterful evocations of Abu Ghraib.
Stuart Klawans
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Sweet Martin’s Badass Song
Several new books on Martin Luther King takes a closer look at the rhetoric and economic politics of the civil rights icon.
Scott Saul
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A Deeper Black
Shelby Steele’s book on Barack Obama, an outdated critique of identity politics, misses the candidate’s essential power.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Mickey Mouse Media
A serious debate focused about torture, wiretapping, food prices, world hunger… oh, wait. That’s the kind of fairy tale they don’t do at Disney.
Eric Alterman
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Letters