George Bush, Upon Hearing That the Iranians Abandoned Their Nuclear Weapons Program in 2003 George Bush, Upon Hearing That the Iranians Abandoned Their Nuclear Weapons Program in 2003
All fired up and nowhere to go.
Dec 12, 2007 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Letters Letters
BELIEVE WHAT YOU WANT BUT BUTTON UP
Hadensville, Va.
Dec 12, 2007 / Our Readers and Brian Morton
Waterboarding Democracy Waterboarding Democracy
Why did four key members of Congress failed to inform the public and the 9/11 Commission about the use of torture on terror suspects?
Dec 12, 2007 / Column / Robert Scheer
Some Sanity When It Comes to the “War” on Drugs Some Sanity When It Comes to the “War” on Drugs
In a bold step forward in the campaign to reduce the damage the war on drugs is causing, the U.S. Sentencing Commission voted unanimously today to make a recent amendment reducing ...
Dec 11, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Torture Tapes: Failure at All Levels Torture Tapes: Failure at All Levels
CIA, Department of Justice, White House--and members of Congress--ran through every legal and procedural red light designed to prevent criminal conduct and its cover-up.
Israel’s Palestinians Speak Out Israel’s Palestinians Speak Out
Israel's indigenous Palestinian population rejects the efforts of Israel and the United States to seal our fate as a permanent underclass in our own homeland.
Dec 11, 2007 / Feature / Nadim Rouhana
Bonfire of the Disney Princesses Bonfire of the Disney Princesses
Disney's idea of sex doesn't belong in the pre-K playroom. Parents, unite: make a holiday bonfire of all that plastic and tulle: let your girls be girls again.
Dec 11, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Barbara Ehrenreich
Who Was in That Torture Chamber? Who Was in That Torture Chamber?
In Wednesday's Wall Street Journal, reporter Siobhan Gorman offered a striking little portrait of Jose A. Rodriguez, who, in 2005, as chief of the CIA's National Clandestine Servic...
Dec 11, 2007 / TomDispatch
Will Pelosi Get Congress to Give Bush Another $70 Billion in Ira Will Pelosi Get Congress to Give Bush Another $70 Billion in Ira
Just days after it was revealed that she was briefed in 2002 on the use of waterboarding and other torture techniques by U.S. interrogators an raised no objections, House Speaker ...
Dec 11, 2007 / John Nichols
Sports 2007: It Was a Very Bad Year Sports 2007: It Was a Very Bad Year
Michael Vick's sentencing to twenty-three months in prison caps a depressing and scandalous year for professional sports.
Dec 10, 2007 / Column / Dave Zirin