Les Payne

Les Payne is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and editor and a former columnist for Newsday.

The Post's Stimulus Chimp

February 27, 2009

The uproar over the New York Post's racially insensitive cartoon has nothing to do with Al Sharpton and everything to do with the ugly history of stereotypes.

Coal Country | "This is a civil war."
Peter Rothberg
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A Blow to Privatization in Israel (and Perhaps Beyond) | A potentially historic ruling on prison privatization, in Israel.
Eyal Press
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Can China Help on Afghanistan? | Beijing wants a broader role in the Middle East and South Asia. Will Obama bring them in?
Robert Dreyfuss
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Around the Nation | The week we went Rouge. Plus, Moyers on Afghanistan.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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Health Care Bill Advances, as Harry Reid Trumps Sarah Palin | The death panelist-in-chief rallied her followers to "KILL THE BILL." But 60 senators decided to follow the real leader.
John Nichols
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Slacker Friday | The "Second Amendment" sale; the raving paranoids of the right.
Eric Alterman