magazine March 14, 2005

The Not-So-Quiet American

The Iraqi elections appear to authenticate the statement George W. Bush made in his January inauguration speech: “America… more

By Slavoj Zizek   

Beating the Boomers

Why Bush and Co. are racing to cut Social Security

By Dave Lindorff   

A Corrupted Election

Despite what you may have heard, the exit polls were right

By Steve Freeman and Josh Mitteldorf   

The People's Business

Controlling corporations and restoring democracy

By Lee Drutman and Charlie Cray   

Spellbound

A specter is haunting the Middle East: the specter of "democratic occupation."

The Midwest Union Rollback

Newly elected Republican governors nix public workers' collective bargaining rights

Germany's Red-Green Romeo

Germany’s media world tittered with delight when the country’s popular foreign minister and Green Party leader, Joschka Fischer,… more

books

Republican Cage Match

During President Bush’s first term, most fiscally conservative Republicans remained mum as the administration gorged itself on a… more

By Paul McLeary   

books

No Better Place

“Our story is the story of our place,” says Hannah Coulter, the protagonist and namesake of Wendell Berry’s… more

By Mark Engler   

Return of the Elves

Magic—or more precisely, the “magical”—was one of the first casualties of punk rock. As guitar solos contracted and… more

By James Parker   

Radical Changes

I just turned 49, which is quite dramatic if you consider that I am a much touted “radical”… more

By Guillermo Gómez-Peña   

Editorial

Budget Bloodbath

“It’s not something we’ve done with a meat axe,” Vice President Dick Cheney told Fox News in defense of the administration’s FY… more

Genocide by Attrition

Without robust humanitarian intervention, Khartoum's genocide in Darfur will continue—Rwanda in slow motion.

Sinking in Deeper

Rather than provide an exit, the Iraqi election could draw U.S. troops into a burgeoning civil war.

Back Talk

Debtor Nation

The financial institutions that issue credit cards are major Washington lobbyists and, thus, virtually unregulated.