Lieutenant Watada’s War Against the War Lieutenant Watada’s War Against the War
In a remarkable, media-savvy protest, First Lieut. Ehren Watada has refused orders to go to Iraq, claiming the war and the occupation violate the Constitution, international law an...
Jun 26, 2006 / Video / Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith
Say Goodbye to Bolton Say Goodbye to Bolton
Selection of a new UN Secretary General is too important to be engineered by the whims and prejudices of John Bolton. It's time for saner voices in the Administration to tell the U...
Jun 26, 2006 / Feature / Ian Williams
The Plot Against America The Plot Against America
John Updike's Terrorist rips its plot from the headlines. But the book's Irish-Egyptian protagonist is paper-thin, and its jihad-lit plot remains stubbornly inanimate, devoid of pa...
Jun 26, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Shainin
The People Versus AIDS The People Versus AIDS
If the United Nations is to keep its promise to grant people with AIDS universal access to treatment by 2010, it will be because activists are holding world leaders accountable.
Jun 21, 2006 / Editorial / Richard Kim
Party of a Different Color Party of a Different Color
"Vote Blue, Go Green" is the new slogan of Britain's Conservative Party, a measure of just how great a concern climate change is becoming to politicians of all stripes.
Jun 21, 2006 / Editorial / Mark Hertsgaard
Moving Toward the Exit Moving Toward the Exit
Americans know it's time to end the US presence in Iraq. They will reward the party that offers a plan for leaving before more American soldiers--and countless Iraqis--are killed.
Jun 21, 2006 / Editorial / The Editors
War Is Personal: Mona Parsons/Age 52/Mt. Vernon, Ohio War Is Personal: Mona Parsons/Age 52/Mt. Vernon, Ohio
The hidden toll the Iraq War is exposed in a photo essay on how one mother braces for her son's second deployment to Iraq.
Jun 21, 2006 / Feature / Eugene Richards
The New American Cold War The New American Cold War
The unfolding conflict over US plans to build missile defense components near post-Soviet Russia, in Poland and the Czech Republic, is the latest proof of the way US-Russian relati...
Jun 21, 2006 / Feature / Stephen F. Cohen
The Passion of Anna The Passion of Anna
In Elaine Feinstein's new biography, the complicated life of Russian poet Anna Akhmatova is flattened into a fable of suffering and redemption.
Jun 21, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Elif Batuman
Hillary’s Hypocrisy Hillary’s Hypocrisy
Hillary Clinton's dissembling on Iraq has become a fatal embarassment for her presidential ambitions and for anyone who looks to her for leadership.
Jun 21, 2006 / Column / Robert Scheer