In India Election, Moderation Rules In India Election, Moderation Rules
Defying expectations and boosting hopes for stability, Indian voters rejected extremism and caste divisions, to give a decisive victory to Congress Party moderates.
May 17, 2009 / Feature / Barbara Crossette
Auto Bailout Blues: Spin, Lies and Layoffs Auto Bailout Blues: Spin, Lies and Layoffs
The madness of the approach adopted by the Johnson and Nixon administrations to war in Vietnam was summed up by the American major who said after the destruction of the Vietnamese...
May 16, 2009 / John Nichols
The Cure for Layoffs: Fire the Boss The Cure for Layoffs: Fire the Boss
Workers in the United States and Europe are beginning to ask the same question as their Latin American counterparts: why do we have to get fired?
May 15, 2009 / Feature / Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis
Mary Ann Glendon’s Deliberate Insult Mary Ann Glendon’s Deliberate Insult
President Obama heads to Notre Dame on Sunday to receive an honorarydegree and deliver the commencement address. Conservative Catholicshave opposed the university's awarding of a ...
May 15, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Free Aung San Suu Kyi Free Aung San Suu Kyi
Yesterday morning, the Burmese ruling junta moved Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi from her Rangoon home, where she is serving house arrest, to Burma's notorious Insein P...
May 15, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Guatemala’s Dirty War Guatemala’s Dirty War
Millions of recently declassified police documents detail a thirty-six-year reign of state terror.
May 15, 2009 / Feature / Michael Gould-Wartofsky and Kelly Lee
Keeping America Safe: President Obama v. Candidate Obama Keeping America Safe: President Obama v. Candidate Obama
Jon Stewart points out the hypocrisy of withholding the torture photos and the firing openly gay Arabic translator Lt. Dan Choi.
May 15, 2009 / The Daily Show
Slacker Friday Slacker Friday
Our new "Think Again" column is called "Sex and the Single Justice" andit can be found here. (It also contains an update on George Will's environmental reporting...) 1959...
May 15, 2009 / Eric Alterman
High Tension in the Energy Debate: The Clamshell Reaction High Tension in the Energy Debate: The Clamshell Reaction
The '60s come alive again in the protest organized by the Clamshell Alliance against the Seabrook nuclear power plant in New Hampshire.
May 15, 2009 / Feature / Harvey Wasserman
The Unresolved Marzani Case The Unresolved Marzani Case
The Carl Marzani case is an indication that the anti-communist hysteria has infected our judicial system.
May 15, 2009 / Feature / I.F. Stone