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
Another 9/11? Never Mind… Another 9/11? Never Mind…
The 9/11 Commission's startling follow-up report that savages the Bush Administration's inadequate efforts to protect the country from terrorism was met by the media with a collect...
Dec 15, 2005 / Column / Eric Alterman
The Faith of Eugene McCarthy The Faith of Eugene McCarthy
Eugene McCarthy, the Minnesota senator, frequent presidential candidate and poet who died Saturday at age 89, never had a chance at the Democratic nomination in 1968. But his passi...
Dec 13, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Robert Sherrill
Amid Hostage Vigils, Peace Work Endures Amid Hostage Vigils, Peace Work Endures
The remaining members of the Christian Peacemaker Teams in Baghdad say their work will go on regardless of what happens to their four colleagues still held hostage. CPT workers wer...
Dec 10, 2005 / Feature / David Enders
‘Never Before!’ Our Amnesiac Torture Debate ‘Never Before!’ Our Amnesiac Torture Debate
Does it lessen the horror to admit that this is not the first time the US government has used torture to wipe out political opponents? The exclusion of the impact of the School of ...
Dec 8, 2005 / Column / Naomi Klein
All the News That’s Fit to Buy All the News That’s Fit to Buy
Bush brings a robust simplicity to the business of news management: Where possible, buy journalists to turn out favorable stories. And if you think you can get away with it, shoot ...
Dec 8, 2005 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn