Jeff Madrick considers the growing wage gap, Paul Krassner rewrites the sixties, Stuart Klawans reviews The Black Dahlia and Old Joy.

Articles

  • Hell of a Times

    Max Blumenthal : A nasty succession battle is brewing at the conservative Washington Times, its newsroom abuzz with allegations of racism, sexism and unprofessional conduct.

  • Fidel Lives

    Ned Sublette : Few Americans, especially those in government, know much about Cuba. And nowhere is that more evident than in the coverage of Fidel Castro's illness and the transition of power.

Letters

Editorials & Comment

  • Déjà Vu on Iran?

    : The Bush Administration is trying to use flawed intelligence to whip up public support for military action against Iran. Can they get away with this again?

  • The Growing Wage Gap

    Jeff Madrick : A winning economic strategy for Democrats: Push for realistic policies to relieve workers' frustrations, rebuild their damaged confidence and improve lifetime security. Subscribe

  • Driving While Muslim

    Spencer Ackerman : As the hunt for homegrown terrorists sympathetic to Hezbollah intensifies, the Muslims of Dearborn, Michigan are losing their trust in American justice.

  • Spanish Justice

    Geoff Pingree & Lisa Abend : The courts of Spain have already tried human rights violators from Chile and Argentina. Those responsible for torturing, imprisoning and killing 200,000 Mayans during Guatemala's thirty-six-year civil war may be next.

  • Rewriting the Sixties

    Paul Krassner : Decency is a subjective perception. And so arbitrary. Subscribe

Reviews

Columns

Web

  • With the Party of Dobson

    Max Blumenthal : At the unofficial GOP midterm convention, Focus on the Family delivered election-day marching orders to the faithful, praising GOP hopefuls and hurling jeremiads against liberals, "faggots" and Fallujans.

  • Howl

    Snapshot of a Plutocracy

    Nicholas von Hoffman : Every person on this year's Forbes 400 list of America's richest people is a billionaire, who collectively possess about $1.25 trillion. Imagine how many Congressmen that will buy.

  • Get Me Rewrite

    Mark Updegrove : Bill Clinton maintains that the mainstream media has misrepresented his record on fighting terror. But it will take a generation to meaningfully assess his effectiveness.

  • Southpaw

    Screamin' at the Machine

    Dave Zirin : We should be cheering at sports events and screaming at politicians. But these days, it's vice versa. Now that ESPN's Screamin' Stephen A. Smith is acting like a pundit, things could change.

  • TruthDig

    A Distinct Lack of Intelligence

    Robert Scheer : If George W. Bush took the latest National Intelligence Estimate seriously, he would end the ineffectual "war on terror" model and treat terrorism as a pathology to be clinically and relentlessly excised.

  • Iranian Science Teachers May Be Enriching Students

    A Pentagon report raises worries that Iran has several facilities for the enriching of mass quantities of high-grade students.

  • Torture is a Moral Issue

    Will we be a nation that abides by our own Constitution and upholds international law? Or will we become a nation that punishes those who follow the orders while exonerating those who give them?

  • Rumsfeld: Iraqis Now Capable of Conducting War Without US Assistance

    The Defense Secretary says escalating violence in Iraq shows the Iraqi population is capable of staying the course without outside military aid.

  • War Signals?

    Dave Lindorff : As a strike group of six US naval vessels prepares to deploy to the Persian Gulf, wary critics of the Bush Administration and members of the military are raising flags that an "October surprise" attack on Iran may be imminent. Others are skeptical.

  • The Pope's Monopoly on Reason

    Tarif Khalidi & Muhammad Ali Khalidi : Pope Benedict XVI's controversial speech is indeed a call for dialogue among all religions. But what kind of dialogue is possible if the Pope believes his ideas are "rational" and everyone else's are not?

  • A Just Response

    Katrina vanden Heuvel : The most effective response to terrorism involves nonmilitary actions in cooperation with the global community and within a framework of domestic and international law.

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