magazine January 2006

To Leave or Not to Leave

Parsing the plans for "victory" in Iraq

By Mark Levine    war and peace

Evo Morales Has Plans for Bolivia

Evo Morales is a polarizing figure in Latin American politics: a proudly left-leaning indigenous activist who defends the… more

By America Vera-Zavala    politics south america

Christmas in New Orleans

Picture Santa's sled with a rolling kitchenette attached and you have some idea about the size of a… more

By Fatima Shaik    criminal justice environment

The Republican Crack-Up

Bush's bad year has created a political vacuum. Who will fill it?

By David Moberg    politics

Snap, Crackle Patents

Can you patent the business method of selling cereal? One company gave it a shot.

By Christopher Hayes    corporations economy

Chvezs Opposition Opts Out

On December 4, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez called the opposition's eleventh-hour decision to withdraw from the country's congressional… more

Cleaning Up Elections in Connecticut

Take one governor in hot water. Raise heat until the governor goes to prison. Combine with a unified… more

Irans Anti-Gay Pogrom

American gay rights groups are ignoring systematic persecution in the Islamic Republic

Postcards From the Front

Recent Iraq soldier memoirs display a 'whatever, dude' detachment

By Lakshmi Chaudhry    military

music

Country's Jingoistic Jingles

Country music is the nation's most popular genre--with nearly twice as many stations devoted to it than any… more

By Craig Aaron   

books

The Northern Slave Trade

The hidden history of slavery in New York calls myths of American morality into question

Tale of Two Wars

The White House has hit on an ingenious way to win the war in Iraq. It is all laid out in a… more

What's the 411 on 9/11?

Inherently skeptical of official dogma, the left has an affinity for alternative explanations.

Will the Dems Step Up in the New Year?

Do the Democrats actually want to be a majority party? The answer appears to be, at best, a maybe.

Ghosts in the Voting Machines

Concerned about reports of election fraud and vote suppression in the 2004 election, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the ranking Democrat on the… more

My fellow Americans

Evil-doers are now using nursing homes as sleeper cells, training our seniors to become suicide bombers.

Hello, Youve Got Smallpox

A quiet industry of ghostwriters is churning out custom research for pharmaceutical companies that the London Guardian estimates comprises 'almost half of all articles published in journals.'