Dr. Germ and Mrs. Anthrax Set Free Dr. Germ and Mrs. Anthrax Set Free
Why is it not bigger news that these infamous Iraqi scientists have been quietly released from imprisonment in Iraq without any charges being brought by their US captors?
Dec 28, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer
A Motion for Censure A Motion for Censure
In a report issued December 20, Representative John Conyers Jr. documents the misconduct of President Bush and his Adminisration, and makes the case that they should be censured by...
Dec 22, 2005 / Editorial / Rep. John Conyers
Pyrrhic Victory Pyrrhic Victory
The best outcome for US policy is the hope that Shiite and Sunni fanatics can check each other long enough for the United States to beat a credible retreat and call it a victory, a...
Dec 21, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer
Iraq After the Election Iraq After the Election
In the wake of the Iraqi elections, Congress must make any future funding for American forces contingent on establishing a clear-cut deadline for withdrawal to quell the insurgency...
Dec 21, 2005 / Editorial / The Editors
Wartime Lies Wartime Lies
As Nazis dropped bombs in Warsaw, poet Czeslaw Milosz wrote a collection of literary criticism that sought to trace the rise of totalitarianism by deconstructing the mythologies of...
Dec 20, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Timothy Snyder
Europa, Europa Europa, Europa
Tony Judt's Postwar, a massive summary of European public life since World War II, is a triumph of narrative that will allow readers familiar with the history to experience it agai...
Dec 20, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Charles S. Maier
Shoot the Moon Shoot the Moon
How realistic is it to stop the Bush Administration from pursuing its war agenda? Former prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega offers some hard-core advice about how to challenge the sta...
Dec 19, 2005 / Feature / Elizabeth de la Vega
The Wonder and Horror of 2005 The Wonder and Horror of 2005
In the gloom of post-election 2004 few people, if any, could have anticipated the wild surprises of 2005. Focusing on three unforeseen developments of the past year, a meditation o...
Dec 15, 2005 / Feature / Rebecca Solnit
Gene McCarthy Gene McCarthy
Eugene McCarthy was a pure original, a great and good man, whose fundamental historical achievement was to be the standard-bearer for a moral and philosophical campaign against the...
Dec 15, 2005 / Books & the Arts / George McGovern
The War and the Elections The War and the Elections
The Iraq debate will be a central issue of the 2006 Congressional elections, and there is reason to believe antiwar candidates will prevail. The first step in that process is to en...
Dec 15, 2005 / Editorial / The Editors