Commentary

From: Greg R. Rampton Subject: “It Started in Texas: Karl Rove’s Political Prosecutions,” by Scott Horton I am the “curious” and “unstable” FBI Agent mentioned prominently in your July 2007…

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The New York Times reports today that BP, Exxon Mobil, Shell, and Total—which is to say, five of the six largest oil companies on Earth—“are in the final stages of…

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From: Steven Matz, Chicago Subject: The Case for Political Rudeness, by Ken Silverstein, May 23, 2008 You make a great case for the effectiveness of rudeness, or ahem, direct language.…

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From: Gary McCardell Subject: Exclusive Video: Hillary in the Führerbunker, by Ken Silverstein, May 12, 2008 On your website, Ken Silverstein posted a link to a video political parody showing…

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Starting with Gates of Heaven in 1978, filmmaker Errol Morris has directed a series of genre-defining documentaries, among them The Thin Blue Line, Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control, and…

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The New York Times today features a long report in which U.S. ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker constructs a timeline with an important lesson for the world: the failure of…

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Reuters, “McCain Hopes Castro to ‘Meet Marx Soon,’” the New York Times, February 22, 2008: Republican presidential front-runner John McCain suggested on Friday that he hoped retired Cuban leader Fidel…

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James C. McKinley Jr., “At Cuba Helm, Castro Brother Stays the Course,” The New York Times, February 25, 2008: HAVANA — Raúl Castro, who has labored in the shadow of…

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Sarah Lyall, “Tally Ho! A Determined Crew Hunts for Fox Hunters”, The New York Times, February 18, 2007: For their part, the hunters argue that they have changed their ways…

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Few human activities are more popular than war, and yet the negative consequences of actual battle, with its inevitable atrocities, often are very high. Therefore when the philosopher William James…

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For readers interested in a little background on this month’s cover story: I first began to develop an interest in the oil of Iraq in 2003. It was the war…

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New York, NY, October 1, 2007 — The United States Supreme Court today upheld the March 23, 2007 decision of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in favor of…

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On Monday, Iraqi authorities, responding to a shootout that left as many as 20 Iraqis dead, announced that they were banning Blackwater USA from operating in their country. It seemed…

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Alfonso Cuarón, director of Children of Men, and Naomi Klein, author of No Logo, present a short film from Klein’s book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. An…

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Julia Preston, Surge in Immigration Laws Around U.S., The New York Times, August 6, 2007: State legislatures, grappling with the failure of the federal government to overhaul the immigration laws,…

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This month Harper’s takes a very serious look at Rudy Giuliani, who could very possibly become the next President of the United States. One of the things that has always…

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“Readers of The Journal May Be Wary of Murdoch, but Advertising Executives Are Not,” The New York Times, August 1, 2007: “It’s just been a dark day,” said Ryan Chittum,…

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“Exclusive: Rupert Murdoch Speaks,” Time, July 28, 2007: The owner-in-waiting will eventually want to see some [changes], starting on Page One. He has little taste for the quirky “A-head” stories…

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On July 20, George Bush signed an executive order that clarified certain aspects of what his administration has come to call “enhanced interrogation techniques.” It was an extraordinarily detailed document…

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Michiko Kakutani, “An Epic Showdown as Harry Potter Is Initiated Into Adulthood,” The New York Times, July 19, 2007: While Ms. Rowling’s astonishingly limber voice still moves effortlessly between Ron’s…

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Dan Eggen and Amy Goldstein, Broader Privilege Claimed In Firings: White House says Hill can’t pursue contempt cases, The Washington Post, July 20, 2007: [Bush] administration officials argued yesterday that…

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Ken Silverstein, “How the Pentagon’s ‘Surrogates Operation’ Feeds Stories Directly to Administration-Friendly Bloggers,” July 19, 2007: The unit was initially called the “Surrogates Operation” but was later rechristened as “Communications…

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Robin Snead as told to Victor Ozols, “What It Feels Like . . . to Find Spalding Gray’s Body,” Esquire, August 2007: I got in touch with his wife, and…

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“Black facing rest of life in prison, say experts,” The Daily Telegraph, July 17, 2007 While a United States government prosecutor suggested in court last week that, by “conservative” estimates…

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