He’s a far-right baby doctor. His own chief of staff
says he’s clueless about the law. Meet Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn, who’ll help shape the US Supreme Court.
Washington Wizards power forward Etan Thomas is using
his swoosh-adorned status as a sports star to speak out on the gross
negligence of the Bush Administration.
For once, Wal-Mart is acting like a hero, with speedy
delivery of water and supplies to Hurricane Katrina victims. If it
could only act that way every day.
Despite persistent calls from the right to raze the
ruined city, gritty storm survivors from New Orleans to Gulfport and
Houston begin to put their lives together again.
The controversy over the World Trade Center cultural
institutions is one more episode in a long, often bitter dispute over
how 9/11 should be remembered and understood.
America’s narcissism and willful blindness to its own
moral failings have been placed in sharp relief as the nation fitfully
responds to the needs of storm victims.
The chronicle of an unfolding catastrophe, as told by
the victims of Hurricane Katrina, the bureaucrats, the rescuers, the
journalists and the politicians.
FEMA enjoyed bipartisan praise during the 1990s under
President Clinton. By the time Hurricane Katrina roared into the Gulf,
the Bush Administration had dismantled it.
The incompetence revealed by the response to Hurricane
Katrina can be traced to a twenty-five-year project, begun in the
Reagan era, of discrediting government.
Let the evacuees of New Orleans take the lead in determining how the
billions of dollars in reconstruction funds are used to rebuild their
lives and their city.
The most remarkable aspect of the media’s treatment of the hurricane coverage
was the return of the poor, in coverage that was neither condescending nor condemnatory.
Some storm victims evacuated from New Orleans were
“sorted” by age, race or gender. Is breaking up families and
prioritizing by race any way to deal with disaster?
What makes Fox’s The OC so addictive is its
California-kissed story lines and appealing characters. But what is it
about women the show doesn’t understand?
America’s narcissism and willful blindness to its own
moral failings have been placed in sharp relief as the nation fitfully
responds to the needs of storm victims.
Abdulrazak Gurnah’s seventh book, Desertion,
revisits the theme of exile and expands it to relationships—between
lovers, between families, between countries.
In his new book, Robert Kaplan proposes that the
antidote to anarchy is empire, policed by soldiers holding an assault
rifle in one hand and candy bars in the other.
The controversy over the World Trade Center cultural
institutions is one more episode in a long, often bitter dispute over
how 9/11 should be remembered and understood.