Four Options That the Baker-Hamilton Report Offers to Those Prosecuting the War in Iraq Four Options That the Baker-Hamilton Report Offers to Those Prosecuting the War in Iraq
And each one has to do with getting the hell out.
Dec 14, 2006 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Soviet Union, R.I.P.? The Soviet Union, R.I.P.?
The collapse of the Soviet Union was far from inevitable: A historic opportunity to democratize and marketize Russia by more gradual means was lost--and the people paid the price.
Dec 13, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Stephen F. Cohen
Dictator Slays Millions in Last-Minute Push to Be Time’s Man of the Year Dictator Slays Millions in Last-Minute Push to Be Time’s Man of the Year
Myanmar's brutal ruler Than Shwe is angling for the honor.
Dec 9, 2006 / From The Onion / The Nation
2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize: Eleanor Lerman 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize: Eleanor Lerman
Eleanor Lerman's poems sing a song that is bravely gloomy, but they sing it with a fierce and earned dignity.
Dec 7, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Tony Hoagland
Uncle Tom’s Shadow Uncle Tom’s Shadow
The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin explores one of the most influential novels in American history.
Dec 7, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Darryl Lorenzo Wellington
The Plot Against Equality The Plot Against Equality
Walter Benn Michaels's The Trouble With Diversity challenges us to remove our race-tinted glasses and view the world in the class-based terms that, he argues, define it.
Dec 7, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Robert S. Boynton
On the Iraq Memo Donald Rumsfeld Wrote as He Was About to Be Fired On the Iraq Memo Donald Rumsfeld Wrote as He Was About to Be Fired
Goodness, gracious! He was right all along.
Dec 7, 2006 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Justice Brandeis Justice Brandeis
One of the phrases most often quoted from Justice Brandeis is, "If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold." The full context in which the phrase fir...
Dec 5, 2006 / Editorial / The Editors
Unhappy Meal Unhappy Meal
Stuart Klawans reviews Fast Food Nation, a film that aspires to activism as it undermines its own anticorporate message.
Nov 30, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
In Palestine, a Dream Deferred In Palestine, a Dream Deferred
Two new books explore fundamental Palestinian and Israeli concerns: The Iron Cage by Rashid Khalidi considers the Palestinians’ failure to achieve sovereignty, and One Country by A...
Nov 30, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Bashir Abu-Manneh