The Fear of the Liberals
Corey Robin : How could liberals believe the most reactionary President since William McKinley could and would export democracy to Iraq?
Edwidge Danticat tells a personal story of post-9/11 paranoia, Andrew J. Bacevich reviews Robert Kaplan's latest book and Stuart Klawans reviews The Constant Gardener, Keane and The Brothers Grimm.
Articles
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Terror on the Inner Border
Sasha Abramsky : Even in tiny outposts like Havre, Montana, a profound cultural and psychological shift has occurred since the events of 9/11.
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Not Your Homeland
Edwidge Danticat : A look at the suffering endured at Krome Detention Center in Miami, a cross between Alcatraz and hell.
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Teaching 9/11
Jon Wiener : How do you tell a student the story of September 11?
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Memorial Chauvinism
Alisa Solomon : The controversy over the World Trade Center cultural institutions is one more episode in a long, often bitter dispute over how 9/11 should be remembered and understood.
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The Patriot Act on Trial
David Sarasohn : We won the cold war without throwing out the right of Americans to be secure in their homes, without throwing out the Fourth Amendment.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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The Disaster President
: The incompetence revealed by the response to Hurricane Katrina can be traced to a twenty-five-year project, begun in the Reagan era, of discrediting government.
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FEMA: Confederacy of Dunces
Jon Elliston : FEMA enjoyed bipartisan praise during the 1990s under President Clinton. By the time Hurricane Katrina roared into the Gulf, the Bush Administration had dismantled it.
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Looting the Black Poor
Earl Ofari Hutchinson : New Orleans is the classic tale of two cities: one showy, middle-class and white; the other poor, downtrodden and low-income black.
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The Big Easy Dies Hard
Christian Parenti : At first glance New Orleans looks like a cross between a giant conceptual art installation or the set of a cold war disaster movie.
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William Rehnquist
Bruce Shapiro : William Rehnquist showed little regard for the social consequences that followed his unrelenting application of conservative legal theory.
Reviews
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book
Desert Storm
Milton Viorst : This might be a good time for the Bush Administration to step up its reading on Saudi Arabia, starting with these three books.
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Robert Kaplan: Empire Without Apologies
Andrew J. Bacevich : In his new book, Robert Kaplan proposes that the antidote to anarchy is empire, policed by soldiers holding an assault rifle in one hand and candy bars in the other.
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book
Love and Betrayal in Colonial Africa
Laila Lalami : Abdulrazak Gurnah's seventh book, Desertion, revisits the theme of exile and expands it to relationships---between lovers, between families, between countries.
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film
A Continent for the Taking
Stuart Klawans : What to make of The Constant Gardener, a movie focused on Europeans set in Africa, the return of Terry Gilliam and the New York City-set Keane?
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
President Inert As City Goes Under
Calvin Trillin : Such a tough hombre: When the hurrincane hit, Bush did a 9/11 reprise.
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DIARY OF A MAD LAW PROFESSOR
The View From Lott's Porch
Patricia J. Williams : Some storm victims evacuated from New Orleans were "sorted" by age, race or gender. Is breaking up families and prioritizing by race any way to deal with disaster?
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THE LIBERAL MEDIA
Found in the Flood
Eric Alterman : The most remarkable aspect of the media's treatment of the hurricane coverage was the return of the poor, in coverage that was neither condescending nor condemnatory.
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LOOKOUT
Let the People Rebuild New Orleans
Naomi Klein : Let the evacuees of New Orleans take the lead in determining how the billions of dollars in reconstruction funds are used to rebuild their lives and their city.
Web
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The Many Faces of Dr. Coburn
Max Blumenthal : He's a far-right baby doctor. His own chief of staff says he's clueless about the law. Meet Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn, who'll help shape the US Supreme Court.
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Etan Thomas Rises to the Occasion
Dave Zirin : Washington Wizards power forward Etan Thomas is using his swoosh-adorned status as a sports star to speak out on the gross negligence of the Bush Administration.
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television
Out of Touch on 'The OC'
Christine Smallwood : What makes Fox's The OC so addictive is its California-kissed story lines and appealing characters. But what is it about women the show doesn't understand?
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Wal-Mart Nation
Wal-Mart to the Rescue!
Liza Featherstone : For once, Wal-Mart is acting like a hero, with speedy delivery of water and supplies to Hurricane Katrina victims. If it could only act that way every day.
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America's Imaginary Frontier
Norman Birnbaum : America's narcissism and willful blindness to its own moral failings have been placed in sharp relief as the nation fitfully responds to the needs of storm victims.
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Column Left
Bush Is Fooling Nobody Now
Robert Scheer : Long fooled by the Bush image machine, Americans now understand that this Administration can only deliver spin, not substance; photo ops, not action.
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New Orleans: Raze or Rebuild?
Christian Parenti : Despite persistent calls from the right to raze the ruined city, gritty storm survivors from New Orleans to Gulfport and Houston begin to put their lives together again.
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A War Over Meaning
Robert Jay Lifton & Greg Mitchell : Knowing what America owes its dead--be they soldiers lost in Iraq or civilians lost in the Gulf Coast storm--could prod the nation toward a decisive rejection of the Bush Administration's war policies.
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New Orleans: Voices in the Storm
: The chronicle of an unfolding catastrophe, as told by the victims of Hurricane Katrina, the bureaucrats, the rescuers, the journalists and the politicians.
Cover photo by Kyle Niemi/US Coast Guard/Getty Images, cover design by
Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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