Who Is Killing New Orleans?
Mike Davis : Mayor-appointed commissions and experts, mostly white and Republican, propose to radically shrink and reshape a majority-black and Democratic city.
Neve Gordon analyzes the Israeli elections, Hilary Wainwright looks at the rise of the new left in Europe and Corey Robin reviews two compelling new books on immigration.
Articles
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The Emerging New Euroleft
Hilary Wainwright : Europe's radical left is still struggling to articulate new strategies for social, economic and political change.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Neglect in New Orleans
: A perfect storm of malign neglect is battering the victims of Hurricane Katrina. But the people of New Orleans are fighting back: They deserve our support as they press for the rights of the displaced.
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Censoring Censure
John Nichols : By failing to support Russ Feingold's motion to censure the President for illegal domestic spying, Democrats are taking the same path of overly calculated caution that cost them elections in 2002 and 2004.
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Looking for Answers in Argentina
Joanne Omang : The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, icons of courageous demands for accountability in Argentina, marked a thirty-year milestone and a significant if imperfect victory in the fight for human rights.
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Giving Americans a Raise
Katrina vanden Heuvel & Sam Graham-Felsen : The massive number of Americans who support raising the minimum wage should spur Congress to action.
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Israel's Backward March
Neve Gordon : If Israel's Kadima Party prevails at the polls as expected, its policies will effectively take Israelis several steps backward.
Reviews
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book
Brother From Another Planet
Russell Jacoby : Eric Lott blasts "boomer liberals" in The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual, a manifesto that purports to breathe new life into radical politics.
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book
Strangers in the Land
Corey Robin : Human Cargo and The Rights of Others chronicle the plight of refugees and migrants, revealing how seemingly simple moral positions can assume toxic political form.
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film
The Wild Child
Stuart Klawans : Reviews of L'Enfant, V for Vendetta, Shakespeare Behind Bars, Toro Negro, The Devil's Miner and Mardi Gras: Made in China.
Columns
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A Summary of Remarks By George W. Bush and Dick Cheney on the Third Anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq
Calvin Trillin : A Summary of Remarks By George W. Bush and Dick Cheney on the Third Anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq
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Why There's No Strategy to End This War
Alexander Cockburn : When Democrats ignored Russ Feingold's motion to censure the President, they provided more evidence that there is no visible national strategy to end the war and bring the troops home.
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Left's Labour Lost
Gary Younge : After nine years, Tony Blair's magic has worn off. His Labour Party has mutated from an imperfect conduit of progressive change into an active obstacle to it.
Web
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TruthDig
Moment of Truth
Robert Scheer : There is no immigration crisis in the US. But it is time America acknowledged that we need the immigrant workers as much as they need us--and treat them accordingly.
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The President Is Not Smiling
William Greider : Card is out, Bolten in. The Senate is stuck on immigration. And every day brings more bad news. Take care of this, will you, Josh?
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Avian Flu Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Nicholas von Hoffman : Large factory farms, not migratory birds, are now seen as breeding grounds for the avian flu virus. Donald Rumsfeld is getting rich off his investment in Tamiflu. Can this pandemic get any crazier?
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The Dot-Degree Boom
Garrett Ordower : Thanks to aggressive recruiting tactics and a complaisant Congress, online enrollments at the University of Phoenix and its spinoff, Axia College, are soaring. So are student debt and disaffection.
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Science Fact or Science Fiction?
Bryan Farrell : Climate change is real, and its impact is potentially devastating to our way of life. So why do the news media have such a hard time telling the straight story?
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Google's Wi-Fi Privacy Ploy
Jeff Chester : Google and other telecom giants are wooing cities with plans to create public Wi-Fi grids. But there's no such thing as a free digital lunch: The price we pay is a loss of online privacy.
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Republicanizing the Race Card
Max Blumenthal : David Duke and a cohort of white nationalists seek to reposition their minuscule movement at a time when their signature issues have been co-opted by pseudo-populist media personalities and the GOP.
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