Running on Fumes
Sasha Abramsky : Unless the federal government does something now, rising gas prices have the potential to break the blue-collar backbone of many American towns.
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Liza Featherstone reports on last week's antiwar demonstration in Washington, DC, Sasha Abramsky travels to rural California to assess the impact of rising fuel prices on working people and Arthur C. Danto parses the meaning of architect Peter Eisenman's Holocaust memorial in Berlin.
Articles
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Can It Happen Here?
Richard Alba & Nancy Foner : With religious school vouchers and public displays of the Ten Commandments on government monuments, the United States is following Europe's path to a melding of Christianity and the state. That's no way to instill loyalty among Islamic immigrants.
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A Disease for Every Pill
Ray Moynihan & Alan Cassels : What do you do if you want to profit from the everyday aches and pains of human existence? Invent a disease, then convince people they need drugs to cure it.
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Letter From Iran
Negar Azimi : While his ideological style may be rough, is Iran's newly elected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the fire-breathing conservative that the mainstream Western media makes of him?
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Out of Gas
: Before 9/11, the Bush Administration thought tax breaks and environmental deregulation would solve the energy crisis. They were wrong. Now it's time for policies that promote conservation and energy alternatives.
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Global Storm Warning
Mark Hertsgaard : Scientists universally recognize the devastating effects of global warming, including its possible role in creating Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. It's time for skeptics to listen up before another devastating storm hits.
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Peaceniks Flood DC
Liza Featherstone : Last week's antiwar rally in Washington sent a single, unequivocal message: At home and abroad, the Bush Administration is a complete failure.
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Gitmo's Hunger Strikers
Clive Stafford Smith : The US military is keeping the ongoing hunger strike and forced feedings of Guantanamo Bay under wraps. And an apathetic American media is showing no interest in exposing the situation.
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In Fact...
: Critics have attacked Gulf Coast reconstruction, but the system--or at least Bush's system--is working just fine. Just ask the usual suspects who are raking in the cash.
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Minority/Majority
Minority/Majority
David Sirota : Three senators caved and supported the nomination of John G. Roberts Jr. as Supreme Court Chief Justice. But one lawmaker, banking on the public's cynicism of the oil industry, wants to tax its windfall profits.
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'The Hammer' Gets Hit
Ari Berman : Tom DeLay's indictment on criminal conspiracy charges comes at a moment of acute public awareness of the culture of corruption the GOP has created. What happens next is up to the Democrats.
Reviews
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Crime and Punishment
Mark M. Anderson : A recent surge of novels and memoirs reveals for the first time the ways in which Germans suffered from Allied "total war" strategy during World War II.
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Fighting the Abyss
Noah Isenberg : Although The Aesthetics of Resistance delves into leftist notions of art and class struggle, this account of an anti-Nazi youth group in Germany seems outdated now.
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Mute Point
Arthur C. Danto : The undulating monoliths in architect Peter Eisenman's Holocaust memorial in Berlin are more banal than beautiful--which suits Eisenman fine.
Columns
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A New Gilbert and Sullivan Song About George W. Bush as a Take-Charge Guy
Calvin Trillin : Where normal human beings see a storm-devastated community, George W. Bush sees only a photo opportunity.
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BEAT THE DEVIL
From Lynndie England to Shaquille O'Neal
Alexander Cockburn : Americans are becoming more hostile by the day to the war in Iraq, the nation is demoralized over official abandonment of the victims of the Gulf Coast storm, but the Democratic Party is missing in action.
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SUBJECT TO DEBATE
Desperate Housewives of the Ivy League?
Katha Pollitt : Why does the New York Times feel compelled to perpetuate the myth that smart, striving women are increasingly opting out of a career to be stay-at-home moms?
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Column Left
The Action-Figure Governator
Robert Scheer : Faced with an historic opportunity to give gay couples equal protection under the law, Arnold Schwarzenegger proved he was made of bendable plastic.
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Darwin and God
Dr. Marc Siegel : Darwin's discoveries about evolution never argued against the existence of God. And the theory of "intelligent design" is a dangerous attempt to undermine science and justify a literal reading of the Bible.
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Bill Bennett's Abortion Fantasies
Mark Sorkin : What's really shocking about Bill Bennett's public fantasies of reducing crime by aborting black babies is the ease with which conservative critics cast lawlessness in racial terms.
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25 Questions About the Murder of New Orleans
Mike Davis & Anthony Fontenot : New Orleans did not die an accidental death--it was murdered by deliberate design and planned neglect. Here are twenty-five urgent questions from the people who live in a city submerged in anger and frustration.
Cover by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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