October 8, 2007 Issue
Cover art by: Cover design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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Features
How Bush’s Iraqi Oil Grab Went Awry
Want proof the Iraq War was all about oil? Here it is.
Dilip Hiro
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Bush’s War Funding Safety Net
Even if Congress refused to authorize more money for the Iraq debacle, the White House could make an end run via an obscure Civil War statute.
Ryan Grim
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Debating Ahmadinejad at Columbia
Columbia University President Lee Bollinger's combative remarks tarnish an otherwise illuminating event.
Jayati Vora
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Strike! A Defining Moment for the UAW
The issues at stake, especially GM's drive to shift the burden of healthcare, will affect workers throughout the industrialized economy--to say nothing of Campaign '08.
Max Fraser
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Order 17
A closer look at the US rule that gives military contractors like Blackwater a free pass to murder, terrorize and pillage their way through Iraq.
Tom Engelhardt
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A Plea From the Iranian People
Iran's leading dissident implores UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to reprimand the Iranian government for its human rights abuses and provide moral support for the suffering Iranian people.
Akbar Ganji
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Blackwater: Hired Guns, Above the Law
Acting with impunity and immune from prosecution, a shadow army funded by US taxpayers is fueling the spiraling violence in Iraq.
Jeremy Scahill
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The High Price of Beauty
A scourge of health problems has nail salon workers wondering about the industry's safety standards.
Virginia Sole-Smith
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Had She Lived
A painter explores love and loss in the iconic settings of postwar Paris.
Byron Dobell
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Editorials
Healthcare Surrender Monkeys
America has faced down the Third Reich and the Red Menace, but it has met an enemy it dares not confront: the private health insurance industry.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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The Richardson Surge
Bill Richardson's edgy, opinionated and sometimes risky campaign is clicking because of his exit-now strategy from Iraq.
John Nichols
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Let the CHIPs Fall…
Bush has turned renewal of a successful child health insurance program from a no-brainer to a battle on the future of healthcare.
Trudy Lieberman
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Politicize the War
By sending Petraeus to Capitol Hill, the White House tried to smuggle in a radical war agenda under the mantle of an outstanding soldier. And people fell for it.
Christopher Hayes
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Taking Power
America is sleepwalking into one-man rule. What can the Democrats do about it?
Jonathan Schell
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Columns
Biden One-Ups Bush
Instead of spending even more money armoring soldiers' vehicles, he should work harder at trying to end the war.
Robert Scheer
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The Fix Is In From the Fed–Maybe
What, exactly, is the interest-rate cut going to fix?
Nicholas von Hoffman
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Poverty Is Hazardous to Your Health
With the exception of John Edwards's plan to eradicate poverty, the concerns of the poor seem to have fallen off the progressive agenda for 2008.
Katha Pollitt
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Fidel, You Got the Wrong Conspiracy
Forget 9/11. Alan Greenspan escapes vilification for his role in a plot against America's economic security.
Alexander Cockburn
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‘Jena Is America’
Jena, Louisiana, has become a national symbol of racial injustice, as civil rights activists converge on the town to protest a miscarriage of justice against six black teens.
Gary Younge
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Books and the Arts
The Logic of Survival
In order to preserve his way of life
Odysseus threaded the necks
of twenty faithless servant girls
and hung them in his courtyardJennifer Moxley
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Abalone
Abalone Rumsen aulón
Aristotle auriform Costanoans
cultivated, Brueghel painted,
awabi Osahi dove for
on September 12, 425 A.D.Jeffrey Yang
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Class Acts
The left's literary canon has neglected the contributions less-celebrated writers have made to the political significance of literature.
J. Hoberman
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Root and Branch
A Canadian philosopher surveys some of the livelier flashpoints in America's battle over evolution.
Ian Hacking
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Letters
Letters
Readers write back about Bob Moser's report on a grassroots revolution in Kentucky and Liza Featherstone's coverage the Service Employees International Union. Plus, an exchange with Jonah Raskin.
Our Readers and Jonah Raskin