January 2005

New Year, Old Story

Bush, the Pentagon and the Tsunami

Privatizing the IRS

First Shot by Congressional Progressives

The Framing of Felipe Arreaga

Cancel the Inauguration Parties

Boot Up America!

The EPA and a Dirty Bomb

The Tsunami and India’s Coastal Poor

On the Detention of Rodrigo Granda

Supporting Torture is not Gonzales’ Greatest Sin

Colin Powell’s Selective Sense of Horror

The Decline of the Dollar

Out Old Year

Death on the Living Room Floor

Oversight Detected

"We Can’t Even Describe What We Are Seeing"

Day of Reckoning: a Review

The Journalist Who Exposed the Crimes of Luis Posada Carriles

The Oxman/Bageant Exchange (Part One)

Tragic Tales and Urgent Tasks from the Tsunami Disaster

Mainlining Apocalypse

Death and Life in the Andaman Islands

Charged with No Crime, Implicated in No Wrongdoing

The Year in Torture

The Media and the Ohio Recount

Playing Politics with Disaster Aid

Democrat Senators on the Hot Seat…Again

Greens and Republicans

The Trouble with Optimism

FTA (F*** the Army)

The Trouble with Optimism

The Guantanamo Gulag

Meaning and Meaninglessness in the December 26 Tsunami

What We’re Listening To This Week

Bush and the Tsunami

My California Vacation

Testing Free Speech in America

A Period for Pedagogy

The Beast’s Belly

The Erotics of Nonviolence

Politics, Gay Marriage and Christianity

Rumsfeld Versus the Military

Black Forever

The Farmer Wants a Wife

Farm Suicides in Vidharbha

The 2004 Said Awards

When Will We Ever Learn?

The Aftermath in Aceh

The Spoils of War