Crime and Punishment Crime and Punishment
A recent surge of novels and memoirs reveals for the first time the ways in which Germans suffered from Allied "total war" strategy during World War II.
Sep 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Mark M. Anderson
Letter From Iran Letter From Iran
While his ideological style may be rough, is Iran's newly elected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the fire-breathing conservative that the mainstream Western media makes of him?
Sep 29, 2005 / Feature / Negar Azimi
Can It Happen Here? Can It Happen Here?
With religious school vouchers and public displays of the Ten Commandments on government monuments, the United States is following Europe's path to a melding of Christianity and th...
Sep 29, 2005 / Feature / Richard Alba and Nancy Foner
Desperate Housewives of the Ivy League? Desperate Housewives of the Ivy League?
Why does the New York Times feel compelled to perpetuate the myth that smart, striving women are increasingly opting out of a career to be stay-at-home moms?
Sep 29, 2005 / Column / Katha Pollitt
From Lynndie England to Shaquille O’Neal From Lynndie England to Shaquille O’Neal
Americans are becoming more hostile by the day to the war in Iraq, the nation is demoralized over official abandonment of the victims of the Gulf Coast storm, but the Democratic Pa...
Sep 29, 2005 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Gitmo’s Hunger Strikers Gitmo’s Hunger Strikers
The US military is keeping the ongoing hunger strike and forced feedings of Guantanamo Bay under wraps. And an apathetic American media is showing no interest in exposing the situa...
Sep 29, 2005 / Editorial / Clive Stafford Smith
St. Pat’s Four Not Guilty of Federal Charges St. Pat’s Four Not Guilty of Federal Charges
Four peace advocates were acquitted of federal conspiracy charges in connection with a 2003 protest of the Iraq War.
Sep 27, 2005 / Feature / Elizabeth Bauchner
A Devil’s Dictionary of Business A Devil’s Dictionary of Business
Had your fill of spin and flimflam about the greatness of corporate America? Here's the real truth about money, high finance and low, commerce, clever tricks, globalism and globalo...
Sep 27, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Nicholas von Hoffman
When ‘Connected’ means ‘Corrupted’ When ‘Connected’ means ‘Corrupted’
The hurricane-driven windfalls for GOP-connected businesses continues, and so do the scandals of widespread corruption among George Bush's cronies. And the rest of us are played fo...
Sep 27, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer
Roberts’s Queer Reasoning on AIDS Roberts’s Queer Reasoning on AIDS
When John G. Roberts Jr. counseled President Ronald Reagan on AIDS policies, did he willfully perpetuate the myth that AIDS can be spread by casual contact?
Sep 26, 2005 / Feature / David W. Webber