Jonathan Schell worries about Bush's nuclear option, Frank Smyth reports on US military officers caught delivering weapons to a Colombian terrorist organization and George Scialabba reviews Thomas Friedman.
Articles
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Judicial Wars Aren't Over
: Democrats must continue the fight to preserve an independent judiciary.
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US Arms for Terrorists?
Frank Smyth : Two US officers are caught delivering weapons to a Colombian paramilitary group.
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Kushner on Miller
Tony Kushner : The politics of a progressive playwright.
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Letter From Ground Zero
Jonathan Schell : The Senate backed down from its "nuclear option." But would Bush actually reach for his?
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Minority/Majority
Minority/Majority
David Sirota : Friends of predatory lenders stay in the minority, while foes move toward the majority.
Reviews
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The Heritage Foundation
Daniel Lazare : Paul Johnson and Christopher Hitchens's new books on the Founding Fathers.
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Just My Imagination
Terry Eagleton : Russell Jacoby's study of utopian thought is a flawed treasure.
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Unintended Consequences
Adam Haslett : The story of Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun illustrates the value of a truly independent judiciary.
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Cosmopolis
Adam LeBor : Home for centuries to Christians, Muslims and Jews, Salonica was a cosmopolitan world where people of various cultures and religions lived side by side.
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An Acquired Taste
Linda Colley : The story of the American products, producers and salesman that took over Europe in the last century.
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Kindred Spirits
Maria Margaronis : Michael Cunningham delivers a historical/noir/sci-fi novel haunted by 9/11 and Walt Whitman.
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Hail Mary
Vivian Gornick : A new biography of one of the Enlightment's most remarkable thinkers.
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Invisible Republic
Shashi Tharoor : Siddhartha Deb's second novel follows an Indian journalist on an elusive search for meaning.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
Bolton Chases French Ambassador Up Tree
Calvin Trillin : John Bolton and the French Ambassador have it out at the UN.
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BEAT THE DEVIL
There's Their Way or the Galloway
Alexander Cockburn : The Senate should abandon its comical pretensions to being a body reflecting any democratic mandate.
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SUBJECT TO DEBATE
Stiffed
Katha Pollitt : Thanks to the wonders of reproductive science, you too can have a virgin birth.
Web
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The Other Bomb Drops
Jeremy Scahill : Bush began the Iraq invasion before he went to Congress.
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Web Letters
Is That What the Writer *Really* Meant?
Our Readers : Articles on Bolivia, the Lincoln Museum and other issues attract comments and questions.
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Collective Memory and the Holocaust
Ross Benjamin : An interview with Peter Eisenman, architect of Berlin's new Holocaust memorial.
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Wal-Mart Nation
Lee Scott's Shiny Green Lexus
Liza Featherstone : Wal-Mart's CEO showcases his company's hypocrisy.
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Column Left
A Cover-Up as Shameful as Tillman's Death
Robert Scheer : Once again, grieving relatives point out that the Bush Administration will exploit anything for political purposes.
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Tear Gas in the Andes
Christian Parenti : Unwilling to suffer through another generation of brutal poverty, the indigenous people of Bolivia have taken to the streets in La Paz.
Cover art by José Chicas of Avenging Angels.
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