Bonehead U Bonehead U
Forget about raising money for actual teaching or research. Institutions of higher learning would rather troll for money for their sports teams.
Oct 8, 2007 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
How Many Times Can a Country Lose its Innocence? How Many Times Can a Country Lose its Innocence?
I've been thinking recently about the many ways in which we conceal from ourselves the truths we know we know. At the Shocked, Shocked conference at NYU on Saturday -- the sub...
Oct 8, 2007 / Katha Pollitt
Dirty Sexy Television Dirty Sexy Television
Who needs reality TV when you can revel in the decadence, dysfunction and dirty laundry of the fictional super-rich?
Oct 8, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Simon Maxwell Apter
Moscow Remembers Politkovskaya Moscow Remembers Politkovskaya
Heidi Hoogerbeets, a graduate student at Columbia University's Harriman Institute, traveled to Moscow last week to participate in memorial events for the courageous Russian journa...
Oct 8, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
George McGovern Backs Clinton George McGovern Backs Clinton
The sense that New York Senator Hillary Clinton presidential campaign is going from strength to strength grew Sunday as a new Des Moines Register poll showed her moving into the l...
Oct 8, 2007 / John Nichols
World War II Interrogators Denounce Administration World War II Interrogators Denounce Administration
On Friday, President Bush lied to the American people, as he has many times before, telling us that "this government does not torture people." But the metastasizing recor...
Oct 8, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Bush v. Children Bush v. Children
The State Children's Health Insurance Program was created by the federal government in 1997 to provide medical insurance coverage for children of families with annual incomes too ...
Oct 7, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
The Secret State of Torture The Secret State of Torture
After professing to abhor torture, the Bush Justice Department secretly authorized it. And the consequences for us all are grave.
Oct 5, 2007 / Feature / Tom Hayden
Prison Reformers Finally Set Free Prison Reformers Finally Set Free
Is the nearly 40-year-old, bipartisan "let's get tough on crime" mantra getting old-- even for politicians? On the campaign trail Barack Obama and John Edwards are now warning of ...
Oct 5, 2007 / The Nation
Strange Culture Strange Culture
Federal authorities are prosecuting Steve Kurtz under the Patriot Act for using harmless bacteria in his artwork. A new film examines his ordeal.
Oct 5, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Patricia J. Williams