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On Not Passing Israel’s ‘Lynch Test’

On the sixtieth anniversary of Israel’s founding, one of the country’s leading journalists reflects on history, the occupation and the duties of conscience.

Akiva Eldar

After Gitmo

America’s legal and moral responsibility to innocent detainees is not more imprisonment, but a new life in the United States.

Aziz Huq

Israel’s Struggle for Social Justice

Despite conflict and contradictions, what is precious and beautiful about Israel is its ongoing struggle for social justice.

Neve Gordon

Earth at 350

Atmospheric CO2 has spiked to 385 parts per million. Roll that back to 350 and we may still live and thrive.

Bill McKibben

Memory Lane

This week’s episode: Mysterious billionaire Mace Gilmore looks back and finds the future wanting.

Gary Phillips

Death in Darfur

Jen Marlowe In Darfur, even the schools are not safe, as I learned following a recent tragedy that cost six children their lives.

Jen Marlowe

Juan Crow in Georgia

Immigrant Latinos live under a matrix of oppressive laws, customs and institutions.

Roberto Lovato

Palestine: Liberation Deferred

A just resolution of the Palestine question depends on the Palestinians themselves.

Rashid Khalidi

A Somber Anniversary

Sixty years after the founding of the State of Israel, the long conflict with the Palestinians, and with the Arab world at large, casts a pall over Israeli life.

Avi Shlaim

Hillary’s Gift to Women

She’s managed to smash the myth of innate female moral superiority.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Market Media Meltdown

Financial news outlets, tethered to a mission to pump up confidence and support their advertisers, helped fuel the subprime meltdown.

Danny Schechter

Noted.

Longshoremen protest the war, Ken Livingstone loses London, Zephyr Teachout blogs The Nation.

The Editors

Gitmo in Disarray

Ethical conflicts and judicial dysfunction cloud the military commissions system at Guantánamo.

Ross Tuttle

Trust the Voters

Finally, the Democratic campaign can begin to focus on what really matters–healthcare, the economy and leaving Iraq.

The Editors

The Tortured Law on Torture

Those confessions elicited from Gitmo detainees are proving legally worthless–and an enduring indictment of the moral bankruptcy of George W. Bush.

Robert Scheer

Federal Reserve Freakout

The Fed scrambles for solutions to the mortgage meltdown–but saving prudent homeowners also involves bailing out a huge number of wealthy speculators. What good is that?

Nicholas von Hoffman

Backlash Spectacular

From campus to courtroom, longstanding gains for women are being eroded everywhere you look.

Katha Pollitt

The Year of the Prisoner

Will Bush make America the ultimate POW by launching an attack on Iran?

Alexander Cockburn

A Citizen Who Has Tried to Keep Informed Addresses Those Covering the 2008 Presidential Election

From the pulpit to the polling booth.

Calvin Trillin

Madame President Gets the 3am Phone Call…

What would happen if Hillary Clinton got the call? “Hmmm…huh? Iran has what? Obliterate them!”

Randall Enos

Unlovable

The contemporary art world, reflected in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, is themeless and heading in no identifiable direction.

Arthur C. Danto

The Age of the Wooden Spoon

The radical subjectivity and reckless politics of Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun find new expression in recent English translations and editions.

Benjamin Lytal

The Counter-Family

British author Jonathan Coe departs from grand social transformations and turns to the domestic sphere in The Rain Before It Falls.

Chris Lehmann

Market Media Meltdown

Financial news outlets, tethered to a mission to pump up confidence and support their advertisers, helped fuel the subprime meltdown.

Danny Schechter

Tonight No Poetry Will Serve

Saw you walking barefoot
taking a long look
at the new moon’s eyelid

Adrienne Rich

Letters

Tain’t Funny, McGee

Madison, Wis.

Our Readers and Rick Meyerowitz

Puzzle No. 3127

ACROSS

1 The final battle needs a weapon–old, like Quixote. (10)

6 Badly need a garden spot? (4)

Frank W. Lewis