The Best American Essays 2007

By David Foster Wallace, Mark Greif, W.S. Di Piero, MALCOLM GLADWELL, Jo Ann BEARD, Robert Atwan, Mark Danner, Ian Buruma, Marione Ingram, George Gessert

The twenty-two essays in this powerful collection -- perhaps the most diverse in the entire series -- come from a wide variety of periodicals, ranging from n + 1 and PMS to the New Republic and The...

The Massacre At El Mozote

By Mark Danner

In December 1981 soldiers of the Salvadoran Army's select, American-trained Atlacatl Battalion entered the village of El Mozote, where they murdered hundreds of men, women, and children, often by d...

The Road To Illegitimacy: One Reporter'S Travels Throught The 2000 Florida Vote Re-Count

By Mark Danner

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN THE 2000 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION – AND CAN IT HAPPEN AGAIN? It was the most tumultuous and uncertain transition of power in the history of the United States, and yet, to most...

Spiral: Trapped In The Forever War

By Mark Danner, Danner, Mark

Trapped in a forever war by 9/11, in Spiral Mark Danner describes a nation that has been altered in fundamental ways. President Bush declared a war of choice and without an exit plan, and President...

Spiral: Trapped In The Forever War

By Mark Danner, Danner, Mark

Trapped In A Forever War By 9/11, In Spiral Mark Danner Describes A Nation That Has Been Altered In Fundamental Ways. President Bush Declared A War Of Choice And Without An Exit Plan, And President...

Stripping Bare The Body: Politics Violence War

By Mark Danner

Drawing on rich narratives of politics, violence, and war from around the globe and written by one of the world's leading journalists, Stripping Bare the Body is a moral history of American power d...

Torture And Truth

By Mark Danner

Includes the torture photographs in color and the full texts of the secret administration memos on torture and the investigative reports on the abuses at Abu Ghraib. In the spring of 2004, graphic...

The Secret Way To War: The Downing Street Memo And The Iraq War'S Buried History

By Mark Danner, Preface By Frank Rich

The United States went to war in Iraq to eliminate the threat from Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction--which turned out not to exist. As the war drags on, the strange case of the weapons...

Spiral

By Mark Danner

The World According To Tomdispatch

By John Brown, Greg Grandin, Noam Chomsky, Michael T. Klare, Mike Davis, Juan R. I. Cole, Tom Engelhardt, Ira Chernus, Judith Coburn, Mark Danner, Ira Chernos

From America’s most influential political blog, a grand survey of the world since 9/11. Tomdispatch.com has established itself as the go-to blog for contemporary US politics, and the favored websit...