Society

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

Killing the Messenger Killing the Messenger

It's one thing for our State Department to plant phony stories in the media or jam broadcasts in Cuba. It's quite another for conservative policy analyst Frank Gaffney bolster's Ge...

Dec 1, 2005 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Post-9/11 Shell Game Post-9/11 Shell Game

José Padilla will never be charged, and never have his day in court.

Dec 1, 2005 / Editorial / David Cole

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