Is the Terminator in Free-Fall?
Marc Cooper : Once seen as the vehicle of hope and reform, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger looks increasingly like an oil-burning jalopy of politics-as-usual.
Jonathan Schell takes aim at a misguided new report by Democratic strategists that advises Democrats to aim for the center, whatever that is; Eric Foner praises Sean Wilentz's The Rise of American Democracy; and Katha Pollitt proposes that Bush nominate her to serve on the US Supreme Court.
Articles
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Spreading the Dough
Ruth Conniff : How can the left build a new majority? EMILY's List has a big piece of the answer.
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Letter From the Philippines
Walden Bello : "People power" in the Philippines is running out of steam. The political system is corrupt, Washington is micro-managing the economy and civil society, cynicism is rampant. But a fledgling "New Left" offers hope.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Torture on the Hill
: War crimes are the darkest expression of the moral degradation that permeates the White House. Bush's threat to veto the Senate's anti-torture measure frames a crisis of law and legitimacy.
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Squeezing the Have-Nots
William Greider : Fitful efforts to rebuild the Gulf Coast unfold against a backdrop of looming economic disaster: rising unemployment and interest rates, misplaced priorities and a recession that will hurt the weakest most.
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Scamming the States
Greg LeRoy : Companies like Boeing, Dell and Daimler-Chrysler know how to extort tax cuts and subsidies from states eager to keep jobs from fleeing. But taxpayers, community groups and even a Supreme Court review are pushing back on corporate giveaways.
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Bono Meets Dr. Shock
Doug Henwood : It's easy to scoff at a rock star like Bono pairing up with economist Jeffrey Sachs. But their tireless lobbying for debt relief for the poorest nations could make a real difference for the 1 billion people who live on less than a dollar a day.
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Minority/Majority
David Sirota : While Rahm Emanuel sticks with a "stay-the-course" approach, despite polls that show Americans want out of Iraq, Carl Levin becames the latest high-level leader to make a compelling argument for withdrawal.
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Letter From Ground Zero
How to Lose an Election
Jonathan Schell : A new report by Democratic strategists urges the party to aim toward the center. But what meaningful difference will that make?
Reviews
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The American Political Tradition
Eric Foner : The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln expertly balances the roots of a political revolution: the impact of a few key leaders and the lives and aspirations of ordinary citizens engaging with the government for the first time.
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Frontier Injustice
Anatol Lieven : In Andrew Jackson: A Life and Times, the frontier president is cast as a one-man beacon for democracy. But Jackson's core belief was a fervent defense of land.
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Another Country
Vince Passaro : Chronicling the final, devastating months of the Civil War, E.L. Doctorow's new novel, The March, reveals the author's complex love for an earlier version of America.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
Reassuring the Right
Calvin Trillin : Though her style is not dramatic, Harriet Miers is definitely enough of a fanatic to sit on the Bush Supreme Court.
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BEAT THE DEVIL
The Virtues of Gas Guzzling
Alexander Cockburn : Gas-guzzling can be a revolutionary experience, like puffing Montecristo cigars, now that Citgo's 1,800 gas stations and eight oil refineries passed into the hands of Venezuela's national oil company.
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SUBJECT TO DEBATE
If Not Miers, Who?
Katha Pollitt : Dear Karl Rove: Just in case Harriet Miers doesn't work out, why not nominate me?
Web
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Column Left
A Misguided Crusade
Robert Scheer : The New York Times exposes its own misguided and unethical campaign to make a terrible reporter a First Amendment saint.
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Goodbye, Mr. Goodwrench
Nicholas von Hoffman : Delphi's bankruptcy is a marker of a new America in which there is no collective security, no union to make you strong, no government to give you shelter, in which workers stand alone.
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Protest and Pushback on Campus
Ryan Grim : Student protests against the presence of military recruiters on campus are on the rise. So are angry--sometimes violent--pushbacks from conservative students and campus police.
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The Young Chickenhawks
Clarisse Profilet : Young Republican activists on campus love George W. Bush and zealously support the war. But are they willing to fight? Not really.
Cover by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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