John Edwards– Abolitionist John Edwards– Abolitionist
Last week, John Edwards visited the Council on Foreign Relations--the citadel of the foreign policy establishment--to deliver a speech laying out his national security policy. The...
May 30, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Letters Letters
Readers attack Alexander Cockburn for doubting the environmental crisis--and Cockburn bites back.
May 30, 2007 / Alexander Cockburn and Our Readers
Dick Cheney’s Dead Wrongs Dick Cheney’s Dead Wrongs
Two years ago, on May 30, 2005, Vice President Dick Cheney said of the violence in Iraq: "I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency." The comment came in...
May 30, 2007 / John Nichols
Her Way, Her War Her Way, Her War
Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign would like voters to forget that she supported the war in Iraq. "Senator Clinton believes things are not going well [In Iraq], wants to...
May 30, 2007 / Ari Berman
Welcome, Baby Cheney Welcome, Baby Cheney
Now that Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter has presented him with a grandson, maybe it's time for Grandpa to join PFLAG.
May 30, 2007 / Column / Robert Scheer
Killing Silent Spring Killing Silent Spring
Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring and a seminal figure for the modern environmental movement, would have turned one hundred this past Sunday. "Carson's book altered the natur...
May 29, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Colossus of Baghdad Colossus of Baghdad
As conditions worsen inside Baghdad's embattled Green Zone, construction continues on a grandiose US Embassy complex that mirrors Bush Administration delusions of a reordered Middl...
May 29, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Tom Engelhardt
More Like It Hot More Like It Hot
To live and dine in California, where one in four is an immigrant, is to sit at a global table. And a bland national cuisine is heating up.
May 29, 2007 / Feature / Andrew Lam
CEOs vs. Slaves CEOs vs. Slaves
New chasms are opening in the unequal terrain of American society: To the ranks of exploited domestics and factory workers, consider the emerging proletariat of adjunct faculty and...
May 29, 2007 / Feature / Barbara Ehrenreich
Dems Wimp Out on Bush & Prewar Intelligence Dems Wimp Out on Bush & Prewar Intelligence
As part of its much belated inquiry into the prewar intelligence, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a 229-page report on Friday on the intelligence...
May 29, 2007 / David Corn