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Feature
Obama Unshackles Global AIDS Work
With the change in Pepfar guidelines, the Obama administration opens new opportunities to link AIDS work and family planning and strengthen health systems in developing countries.
Barbara Crossette
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Memories of Ted Kennedy
Senator Kennedy was recognized worldwide as a leader of the American left. What is less recognized is his connection to a social justice-oriented Catholic faith.
Norman Birnbaum
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Shotgun Adoption
Christian agencies lavish support services on pregnant women–if they give up their babies.
Kathryn Joyce
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The Secret Government
An effective investigation into the breadth of the CIA's interrogation programs must be bipartisan, similar to the work of the Church Committee in the 1970s.
Chris Hayes
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Editorial
Bush’s Third Term?
Imagine that George W. Bush had been allowed a third term as president, had run and had won or stolen it, and that we were all now living (and dying) through it.
David Swanson
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Auden’s Love Poem for Humanity
The poet’s “September 1, 1939” saw the start of World War II and declared: “We must love one another or die.”
John Nichols
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My Lai and Lockerbie Reconsidered
The eerie confluence of the tales of two convicted mass murderers, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi and William Calley–and their fates.
Nick Turse
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Opposing Escalation in Afghanistan
Regardless of who started the war in Afghanistan, it is now Obama’s war. Preventing military escalation is necessary if the president doesn’t want it to become his Vietnam.
David Cortright
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Aborn for Manhattan DA
An experienced prosecutor who knows that prevention is the best crime-fighting strategy, Aborn has fought for drug-law reform and sensible gun-control.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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Paranoia Strikes Deep
If Obama and his progressive allies hope to defeat the latest assault on federal power, they will need to go beyond his artful ambivalence.
Michael Kazin
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Flushing Blackwater
Recent disclosures of Blackwater’s covert activities may finally force Congress to take action.
Jeremy Scahill
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The Fighting Liberal
Remembering Senator Edward Kennedy, who broke barriers of personality and partisanship.
The Editors
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Afghan War Turnoff
Trust the judgment of the American majority, who say this war is no longer worth fighting.
The Editors
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Column
Obama’s Meaningless War
The way he’s headed on Afghanistan, Barack Obama is threatened with a quagmire that could bog down his presidency.
Robert Scheer
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Novak Without Tears
It’s time to do Robert Novak the honor of taking his life’s work seriously.
Eric Alterman
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Reverse Nazism and the War on Universal Healthcare
What’s at stake could very well be nothing less than America’s own Weimar moment.
Patricia J. Williams
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Books & the Arts
Auden’s Love Poem for Humanity
The poet’s “September 1, 1939” saw the start of World War II and declared: “We must love one another or die.”
John Nichols
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Pattern Recognition: The Writings of Hollis Frampton
A new volume of essays shows Hollis Frampton leaving behind photography for film.
Akiva Gottlieb
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Back Talk: Jarvis Cocker
A conversation with the former frontman of Pulp about the sound of music in the digital era.
Christine Smallwood
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Beyond Exhaustion: Dan Graham’s Period Pieces
Does the art of Dan Graham and his disciples promise deceptive simplicity or formulaic thinking?
Barry Schwabsky
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A Music of Austerity: The Poetry of Wallace Stevens
In his best poems, Wallace Stevens makes deprivation feel seductively like plenitude.
James Longenbach
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Letters
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Crossword
Puzzle No. 3182
ACROSS
1 Bring back some pictures, being well equipped to be crossed this way. (9)
Frank W. Lewis