What if our lost decade lasts long enough to meet an environmental crisis involving extreme weather?
Tom Engelhardt | Posted 03.03.2009 | Entertainment
Part two of this exclusive excerpt from Waltz with Bashir takes up after Folman has managed to reconstruct his first days of the war in Lebanon.
Tom Engelhardt | Posted 02.24.2009 | Entertainment
Given the power and timeliness of this thoughtful, dreamlike memoir from a living hell, it's a particular honor to be releasing two long excerpts from the graphic novel version of Waltz with Bashir
Tom Engelhardt | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics
It's now well past time to leave behind the imperial fantasies of the Bush era and join a world in trouble -- and there's no better day to begin than on January 20, 2009.
Ann Jones | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics
It's hard to overstate the magnitude of the failure of American reconstruction in Afghanistan.
Tom Engelhardt | Posted 01.19.2009 | Media
As with GM, it has been easier and far more immediately profitable for big publishers to just keep selling the "SUVs" of books until their business model went into the toilet rather than try to prepare for a new world.
Anand Gopal | Posted 04.13.2009 | Politics
If there is an exact location marking the West's failures in Afghanistan, it is the modest police checkpoint that sits on the main highway 20 minutes south of Kabul. Here, the American-backed government of Afghanistan no longer exists.
Tom Engelhardt | Posted 03.20.2009 | World