The Silence of the Doctors The Silence of the Doctors
The overlooked players in the torture scandal are the medical personnel who supervise--and often participate in--acts of torture. Military medical professionals have reportedly tai...
Dec 8, 2005 / Feature / Jonathan H. Marks
Seeds of Abu Ghraib Seeds of Abu Ghraib
Americans wondered how Army Specialist Charles Graner could torture detainees in the gruesome Abu Ghraib scandal. In war, people do things that would otherwise be unthinkable. But ...
Dec 8, 2005 / Feature / Sasha Abramsky
Brass Tacks Brass Tacks
"Do what has to be done" is the motto of the investigative arm of the US military. But when the understaffed institution regularly loses evidence and delays autopsies, it does too ...
Dec 8, 2005 / Feature / Tara McKelvey
The Torture Administration The Torture Administration
Despite what we know of history, it comes as a shock to discover that American leaders would open the way for torture of prisoners, that the President would fight legislation prohi...
Dec 8, 2005 / Feature / Anthony Lewis
The Silencing of Carlos Delgado The Silencing of Carlos Delgado
The New York Mets' squelching of first baseman Carlos Delgado's longstanding protest of the war in Iraq during the seventh-inning stretch speaks volumes about how the rules of the ...
Dec 7, 2005 / Feature / Dave Zirin
Democracy for Sale Democracy for Sale
A trove of new documents detailing the corruption and influence-peddling by Jack Abramoff, Ralph Reed and Tom DeLay is sweeping the high-minded prophets of the Republican revolutio...
Dec 7, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer
Anybody Want to Buy a Newspaper? Anybody Want to Buy a Newspaper?
Under pressure from Wall Street, newspaper journalism is being frog-marched out of the media marketplace. And once it's gone, how will we know anything?
Dec 2, 2005 / Feature / Nicholas von Hoffman
Ban Torture or Protect Torturers? Ban Torture or Protect Torturers?
A showdown looms in Congress this week over two competing measures involving bedrock human and legal rights: John McCain's legislation to ban all forms of torture and Lindsey Graha...
Dec 2, 2005 / Feature / Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith
AIDS Movement Seizes Control AIDS Movement Seizes Control
Despite its controversy, World AIDS Day has demonstrated how vast and global the AIDS movement has gone. While the extent of AIDS advocacy was not as far-reaching then, in 1987 a b...
Dec 2, 2005 / Feature / Mark Gevisser
The Putsch at Public Broadcasting The Putsch at Public Broadcasting
With professionals at the top forced out and replaced by GOP fundraisers, the right-wing takeover of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is now plain to see. Though CPB's Inspe...
Dec 1, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman