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October 19, 2005
A Misguided Crusade
The New York Times exposes its own misguided and unethical campaign to make a terrible reporter a First Amendment saint.
Robert Scheer
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October 13, 2005
How Liberia Held ‘Free’ Elections
Votes are now being counted in the first truly free election in Liberia’s troubled history. It’s a far cry from the 1986 election, which dictatorial Samuel Doe fraudulently “won” by shutting down not only newspapers but entire political parties. The Reagan Administration just looked on.
Michael Massing
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October 13, 2005
If Not Miers, Who?
Dear Karl Rove: Just in case Harriet Miers doesn’t work out, why not nominate me?
Katha Pollitt
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October 13, 2005
Reassuring the Right
Though her style is not dramatic, Harriet Miers is definitely enough of a fanatic to sit on the Bush Supreme Court.
Calvin Trillin
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October 13, 2005
Scamming the States
Companies like Boeing, Dell and Daimler-Chrysler know how to extort tax cuts and subsidies from states eager to keep jobs from fleeing. But taxpayers, community groups and even a Supreme Court review are pushing back on corporate giveaways.
Greg LeRoy
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October 13, 2005
Torture on the Hill
War crimes are the darkest expression of the moral degradation that permeates the White House. Bush’s threat to veto the Senate’s anti-torture measure frames a crisis of law and legitimacy.
The Editors
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October 12, 2005
Spreading the Dough
How can the left build a new majority? EMILY’s List has a big piece of the answer.
Ruth Conniff
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October 12, 2005
Protest and Pushback on Campus
Student protests against the presence of military recruiters on campus are on the rise. So are angry–sometimes violent–pushbacks from conservative students and campus police.
Ryan Grim
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October 12, 2005
The Young Chickenhawks
Young Republican activists on campus love George W. Bush and zealously support the war. But are they willing to fight? Not really.
Clarisse Profilet
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October 12, 2005
Another Country
Chronicling the final, devastating months of the Civil War, E.L. Doctorow’s new novel, The March, reveals the author’s complex love for an earlier version of America.
Vince Passaro