Winning the Peace
John Nichols : Antiwar Democrats in Washington are facing a moment of truth: Now is the time to raise the volume on the previously taboo discussion of a real exit strategy from Iraq.
Curtis Wilkie explores how New Orleans got where it was and what it needs to get where it's going. Roberto Lovato exposes the strategic Pentagon pursuit of Latino bodies to serve in the US military. Russell Platt reviews Joseph Horowitz's take on the rise and fall of the classical music genre in America.
Articles
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The War for Latinos
Roberto Lovato : In the face of unprecedented manpower problems, the Pentagon is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to target young Latinos for military recruitment.
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Iraqis Demand a US Withdrawal
David Enders : Sources on the ground in Iraq say that serious moves toward a pullout will dry up recruitment efforts for jihadi groups.
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Bohemia's Last Frontier
Curtis Wilkie : New Orleans, a city full of idiosyncrasies, must be restored for the benefit of the nation as a whole.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Our Two Gulf Crises
: Our strategy ought not to be to fight every prospective terrorist to the death in Iraq, but to deny them the cause that has swollen their ranks--our continuing presence there.
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A 'New' New Deal
William Greider : The reconstruction of New Orleans could set the stage for a comprehensive legislative initiative akin to the New Deal.
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Class-ifying the Hurricane
Adolph Reed Jr. : What happened in New Orleans is an extreme and criminally tragic consequence of the belief that cutting public spending makes for a better society.
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Bread, Roses and the Flood
Eric Foner : The only bright spot in this man-made disaster has been the wave of public outrage at the Administration's failure to provide aid to the most vulnerable.
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NYU's Poison Ivy Itch
Andrew Ross : When one of New York's biggest and most liberal institutions gets into the business of union-busting, it's hardly an internal matter.
Reviews
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Zadie Smith's Indecision
William Deresiewicz : It can't be easy to rein in a writer as successful as Zadie Smith. Her new novel, On Beauty, proves it's almost impossible.
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Rushdie's Receding Talent
Lee Siegel : It has almost become a sadness to review a novel by Salman Rushdie. Shalimar the Clown is no exception.
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Barbara Ehrenreich's White Collar Blues
Michael Kazin : Barbara Ehrenreich probes a deeper level of white-collar angst: people who lose or quit their corporate jobs and routinely spend months, even years, finding another.
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New World Symphony
Russell Platt : Joseph Horowitz diligently lays out the immense problems that face American classical music today, and his warnings cannot go unheeded.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
Further Words From George W. Bush After He Said to FEMA Chief Michael Brown, 'Brownie, You're Doing a Heckuva Job.'
Calvin Trillin : Perhaps Bush is beginning to regret picking a horse expert to heard FEMA.
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BEAT THE DEVIL
Levee Town
Alexander Cockburn : There are decades of memos from engineers and contractors setting forth budgets to build up the Gulf Coast's levees, but Bush wouldn't let them be.
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SUBJECT TO DEBATE
Intelligible Design
Katha Pollitt : Intellectually, scientifically, even artistically, fundamentalism is a road to nowhere, because it insists on fidelity to revealed truths that are not true.
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Fear Itself
Dr. Marc Siegel : Some people are scaring themselves about the wrong things in ways that are doing terrorists' work for them. Here's one physician's prescription for bringing irrational fears under control.
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Column Left
Bush Finally Sees Poor People
Robert Scheer : It takes a hurricane to raise awareness that the numbers of poor people are growing on George Bush's watch. Will that be enough for the President to begin to level the playing field?
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Visionaries Wanted
Nicholas von Hoffman : New homes for those displaced by Hurricane Katrina need not be the penitentiary-style public housing we've come to dread. Bring in architects who know how to create human-scale dwellings for the poor.
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Left Behind: Bush's Holy War on Nature
Chip Ward : Americans care about the environment, but the Bush Administration clearly doesn't. Blame it on Republican ideology and the apocalyptic religious sensibilities of his political base.
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Prelude to an Exit Strategy
Ari Berman : As a handful of maverick lawmakers hold unofficial hearings on an Iraq exit strategy, how long will it take Democrats and Republicans on the Hill to recognize the growing distaste for this war?
Cover by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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