Mark Hertsgaard explores Green power in Germany, Alexander Cockburn reveals new details of FBI spying on Edward Said and Stuart Klawans reviews Michael Haneke’s Caché.
Elizabeth Holtzman : The time has come to call for the impeachment of President Bush. Any President who maintains he is above the law--and acts repeatedly on that belief--seriously endangers our consitutional system of government.
Trudy Lieberman : The Bush Administration's ill-advised new prescription drug program could destroy Medicare as a benefit for all Americans.
Mark Hertsgaard
:
The Green Party fell from power in recent German elections, but Greens continue to be the party to watch, a progressive influence on the world's third-largest economy.
William P. Jones : While the edges continue to be smoothed off Martin Luther King Jr.'s bracing challenges to racism, war and free-market exploitation, the holiday is a time to remember a leader who believed civil rights and labor rights are tightly intertwined.
: Cleaning up Congress after the Abramoff scandal involves far more than limits on gifts and perks. It requires barring the 'legalized bribery' of major campaign contributions.
David Sirota : No voice rings as hollow as Newt Gingrich's on the GOP culture of corruption. Incredibly, the media are swallowing his story.
Hillel Schenker : Suddenly, the Sharon era is over. And Sharon's centrist Kadima Party may emerge as the dominant force after the March 28 elections.
Mouin Rabbani : Will Palestinians be compelled to live by Ariel Sharon's repressive vision or will they compel Israel to accept genuine self-determination for the Palestinian people?
: Remembering Frank Wilkinson, American hero; full disclosure on Jack Abramoff; Dave Letterman confronts Bill O'Reilly; a new baby for Nation contributing editors Liza Featherstone and Doug Henwood.
John Gray : Kwame Anthony Appiah's Cosmopolitanism explores the middle ground between the universal laws of liberalism and relativism's blind respect for all differences.
Jonathan Rée : Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism is a political classic trapped in the era in which it was written.
Stuart Klawans : Michael Haneke's Caché is a stylish thriller that scrapes away at the surface of polite European affluence to lay bare the moral rot beneath.
Calvin Trillin
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Testing a Congressman's memory of the former super-lobbyist: Good old
what's-his-name...but me? I hardly knew him.
Alexander Cockburn
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The FBI was probably tapping Edward Said's phone right up until the day
he died. Details are emerging of a surveillance effort that extended
for nearly thirty years.
Katha Pollitt : Women now outnumber men at colleges and universities, but higher education has not become the fluffy pink playpen of feminism that some conservatives envision.
Robert Scheer : It's appalingly clear Team Bush is unwilling to do the hard work it takes to make Afghanistan the functioning nation it was before cold war games tore it apart.
Laila Weir : Michelle Bachelet's election as Chile's first female president represents many things for her fellow citizens: the certainty of political continuity, the possibility of change and a commitment to the past.
Nicholas von Hoffman : We're on our way to being a society of economic zombies, half dead and half alive, buried in debt but prevented by credit card companies from declaring bankruptcy.
Bruce Shapiro : If the Alito confirmation hearings were a test of Democratic strategy, the Alito vote to come is a test of moderate Republican integrity and mettle.
Dr. Marc Siegel : Vaccine production in the United States is in an alarming condition--with drug-makers wedded to outmoded techniques and government more focused on terror than pandemics.
Ari Berman : For a long time on Capitol Hill, no one was interested in lobbying reform. Now everybody wants to get in on the act.
Negar Azimi : A brutal raid on an encampment of refugees in Cairo has focused the world's attention on the netherworld Sudanese occupy in Egypt.
Bruce Shapiro : Samuel Alito and his handlers have crafted a disingenuous campaign that reeks of ethical compromise, bending Senate rules, bending the truth and compromising the confirmation process.
Bruce Shapiro : Samuel Alito's blunt testimony on international law revealed the extremity of his judicial philosophy and carried profound implications for rulings he might make.
Cover by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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