The Insecurity State The Insecurity State
Americans are now caught in a security paradox: We expect the government to protect us, but its responses make us feel even more insecure.
May 18, 2006 / Editorial / Donald W. Shriver Jr.
In the Black(water) In the Black(water)
Tens of thousands of Hurricane Katrina victims remain without homes. The environment is devastated. People are disenfranchised. Financial resources, desperate residents are tol...
May 17, 2006 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill
Hawks for Withdrawal Hawks for Withdrawal
As centrist Democrats slowly but surely unite around a plan for military withdrawal from Iraq that is heavy with hawkish reasoning, what are the implications for the peace movement...
May 17, 2006 / Feature / Tom Hayden
Using Soccer to Kick Iran Using Soccer to Kick Iran
To World Cup aficionados, soccer is a beautiful game, but to ideologues in the United States and Europe, it's a convenient political weapon against Iran's nuclear ambitions. Talk a...
May 16, 2006 / Feature / Dave Zirin and John Cox
Spymaster Disaster Spymaster Disaster
The CIA is in need of reinvention and a director who can oversee the transformation. Gen. Michael Hayden is not the right man for the job.
May 14, 2006 / Editorial / The Editors
Woman Warrior Woman Warrior
Iran Awakening is the memoir of Shirin Ebadi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her struggle to hold Iran's clerical regime accountable for its gross human rights violation...
May 11, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Reza Aslan
Zones of Disengagement Zones of Disengagement
In Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain, Stefan Collini encapsulates the paradoxes that dominate discussion of the English cultural landscape.
May 11, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Richard Vinen
The Book of Daniels The Book of Daniels
Michel Houellebecq's The Possibility of an Island has at last landed on American shores, along with Pierre Mérot's Mammals.
May 11, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Christine Smallwood
Dining With Devils Dining With Devils
Wole Soyinka's You Must Set Forth at Dawn is a captivating memoir of the political and cultural dilemmas the author and activist encountered, and a compelling chronicle of Nigeria'...
May 11, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Fatin Abbas
For Reasons of State For Reasons of State
Two new books on the French Revolution examine Robespierre's role in advocating terror as an instrument of government, raising compelling questions about state-sponsored terror in ...
May 11, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Lynn Hunt