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Bong hits

Korea's hottest new director comes to the HFA
You have to wonder whether there's something in the drinking water in Korea that's caused the country to spawn so many prolific, inventive new filmmakers — directors like Park Chan-wook ( Oldboy , Thirst ) and Bong Joon-ho.
By PETER KEOUGH | February 24, 2010

Cannonball quiets Harvard quad

Time bomb
It’s been awhile since we had to worry about the multi-colored national danger spectrum, but last week, the northwestern quadrant of Harvard Square was put on high alert.
By TOM MEEK | November 04, 2009

Soldiers committing suicide

US troops are killing themselves in record numbers
On July 22, 2004, unable to handle the intensity anymore — the daily vomiting, the feeling that he was a murderer — Lucey wrapped a garden hose around his neck and hanged himself.
By JASON NOTTE | March 17, 2009

Capuano cornered?

Could a developing Washington probe hurt the Somerville congressman, and derail his Senate hopes?
Republican lobbying-ethics scandals helped convince voters to toss out the GOP and put Democrats back in control of the US House of Representatives.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | March 03, 2009

Proud to jump the shark

Macho, loopy, and entertaining as hell, The Unit is prime Mamet
Who but David Mamet would have the macho audacity to name his TV show after the male genitalia?
By JON GARELICK | February 25, 2009

Rage against the machines!

Could robots take over the world? In many ways, they already have.
We’re on the cusp of a perilous era. Our pitiful carbon bodies are evolving much slower than the silicon and steel gizmos we’re inventing. And the guys in the lab coats and pocket protectors are starting to worry we’ve opened Pandora’s hard drive.
By MIKE MILIARD | May 28, 2008

Photo op?

In Errol Morris’s Standard Operating Procedure , a picture is worth a thousand words
After 11 days on the road promoting Standard Operating Procedure , his film about the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal, Errol Morris is back in his Cambridge office.
By PETER KEOUGH | May 01, 2008

Pie-tossers renew free speech debate at Brown

Uncivil liberties
“A lot of people are talking about whether this was outrageous, or justified, or laudable, or totalitarian.”
By ARIEL WERNER | April 30, 2008

What's going on?

Never mind the information age. When it comes to the war, we’re still in the dark.
Five years into the Iraq War, we can catalogue a person’s every move with Twitter, Facebook, and the like.
By VANESSA CZARNECKI | March 12, 2008

Staying afloat

Kucinich supporters won’t give up the ship
The only way I have found myself able to be an intensely passionate American, patriot, and political activist is through my support of Dennis Kucinich and his ideas.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | January 16, 2008

Rent a war

The real significance of hired guns in Iraq. Plus, combating Ann Coulter.
Wonder why the Iraq government changed its mind about expelling Blackwater, the rent-a-soldier company whose employees killed 17 civilians this past month?
By EDITORIAL | October 17, 2007

Enjoy the air show — you paid for it

Sky-high taxes
Let’s move beyond the $320 million in aircraft you have bought that will be performing at this weekend’s Great State of Maine Air Show at Brunswick Naval Air Station.
By JEFF INGLIS | September 12, 2007

War zones

Fall films face terror at home and abroad
The party’s over. Time for the lessons to begin.
By PETER KEOUGH | September 12, 2007

Letters to the Boston editor: June 22, 2007

Foul wind
Your piece reflected a tried-and-true tactic used by Cape Wind advocates: go personal on anyone who has the audacity to oppose this special-interest project.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | June 20, 2007

Annals of termination

Yet another mission to accomplish
George W. Bush is guilty of a lot of things. But in her just-released book, former federal prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega gets specific.
By MIKE MILIARD | May 02, 2007

The high hurdles

Obstacles for Dukakis in the long run
This article originally appeared in the March 24, 1987 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By SCOT LEHIGH | April 09, 2007

Bush's secret army

Meet the American mercenaries of Blackwater, who fight outside of the law and take direction from the radical Christian right
The 9/11 attacks provided a catalyst: an unprecedented justification to forge ahead with a radical agenda molded by a small cadre of neoconservative operatives.
By JEREMY SCAHILL | March 21, 2007

The Pah-ty's ovah

Congressional reps from New England are poised to lead the attack on Republican waste and fraud
For the past six years, the Republican-run federal government has been free to waste money, reward friends, and act incompetently, knowing that their misdeeds would go unexposed by the legislative branch. Nailing the GOP: New England Congressmen are sitting on some key committees. By David S. Bernstein
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | January 24, 2007

Sex, Iraq, and pop culture

The war for our attention
How many times a day do you think about sex? How many times a day do you think about the war in Iraq?
By ELLEE DEAN | January 11, 2007

Letters to the Portland editor: January 12, 2007

Dems owe us peace
Maybe the Democrats in Washington owe the anti-war activists in America something.
By LETTERS TO THE PORTLAND EDITOR | January 10, 2007

Snowe’s tracks

How moderate is Maine’s senior senator?
Believe the hype — US Senator Olympia Snowe’s key votes in 2005 and 2006 do, indeed, straddle party lines. Whether you like that or not depends on which issues get to you. Blown away: Jean Hay Bright's fight to topple a political icon. By Sara Donnelly
By SARA DONNELLY | October 18, 2006

Geek in the woods

Roughing it for urban gadget fiends
For city dwellers accustomed to living with iPods, cell phones, and steady wi-fi, a weekend spent camping can send well-adapted urbanites into temporary panic.
By KATE COHEN | July 25, 2006

The Ninth Annual Muzzle Awards

Our annual New England roundup of those who undermined freedom of speech and civil liberties. But first, a word about George W. Bush.
Nearly five years after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, our political culture has been warped beyond recognition.
By DAN KENNEDY | July 04, 2006

Pentagon withholds details of spying on anti-war groups

Surveillance Society
Given growing attempts at government surveillance, Alden Eagle, a coordinator for the Rhode Island Community Coalition for Peace (RICCP), seems right on target when he says, “Anybody is a potential terrorist.”
By ANDREW FOX | June 21, 2006

Hearsay

One man’s ‘Bush Chronicle’
Eliot Weinberger is a New York editor, translator, anthologist, essayist, and throwback to the day when American literary intellectuals more regularly spoke their political views in print.
By WILLIAM CORBETT | March 07, 2006

Don’t Ask, Don’t Help

Medics who could be treating soldiers in Iraq are home instead — because they’re gay
Brain injuries. Burns. Broken bones. Infections.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | February 02, 2006

The “I” word

Why is the mainstream media afraid of George W. Bush?
Greg Mitchell had a very nice piece in the trade magazine Editor & Publisher about how our mainstream media — an absolute disgrace throughout the Bush administration — is avoiding using the word “impeachment” concerning the Boy in the Bubble’s affronts to our freedom and global image.
By | January 25, 2006