What Can Sherrod Brown Do for the Democrats?
John Nichols : The road to the Democrats' renewal runs through Ohio, and Sherrod Brown is on it, looking for the towns his party forgot and the voters who got away.
Mark Hertsgaard examines California's global warming initiative, Peter Kwong looks at China's burgeoning economy and growing social dysfunction, Ari Kelman reviews three books on the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Articles
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Congo Journey
John le Carré : It was the strangest journey of my life, and it will always be. I was looking for fictional characters I had invented, in a country I had never visited.
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China's Neoliberal Dynasty
Peter Kwong : As China's economy surges forward, so does the pileup of social contradictions: pollution, migration, crime and family dysfunction.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Lawless 'Compromises'
: Prime midyear election issues: Torture and eavesdropping are illegal. We are a nation founded on the rule of law.
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A Scandal If Not a Crime
: The White House behaved unethically by exposing Valerie Plame's identity. Escaping prosecution is not the same as escaping judgment.
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No Clear Antiwar Signal
John Nichols : Anyone looking for a signal from the primaries that Democrats will be a clear antiwar party didn't get it.
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CA Leads on Climate
Mark Hertsgaard : California's global warming initiative shows how far ahead the state is compared with the federal government. But it also reveals how America lags behind the rest of the world.
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The UN After Lebanon
Richard Falk : The UN's mixed record on the war in Lebanon proves we should lower our expectations of what it can meaningfully achieve.
Reviews
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Music of My Mind
David Yaffe : John Gennari's Blowin' Hot and Cool looks at the intimate but fractious relationship between jazz luminaries and their critics.
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The Illusionist
Tobias Jones : Alexander Stille's The Sack of Rome explores how Silvio Berlusconi subverted Italy's government, history and culture.
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The Lives They Led
Kate Levin : Claire Messud's The Emperor's Children is a superb comedy of manners, a richly tragicomic view of three thirtysomething Ivy Leaguers in the days leading up to 9/11.
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Unnatural Disaster
Ari Kelman : Three new books reappraise the massive earthquake of 1906, which was felt across an area of 400,000 miles and leveled much of San Francisco.
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Short Takes
Fatin Abbas & Christine Smallwood : Reviews of Half of a Yellow Sun, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves and The City Is a Rising Tide.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
George Bush Explains His Policy on Torture To Someone Who Is Being Waterboarded
Calvin Trillin : Don't worry--it only feels like you're drowning.
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DIARY OF A MAD LAW PROFESSOR
A Klatch of Civilizations
Patricia J. Williams : As Survivor races to the bottom by dividing this season's contenders into race-based tribes, perhaps we can look to Starbucks for new models of how to blend in.
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THE LIBERAL MEDIA
Lying About 9/11? Easy as ABC
Eric Alterman : Why did the network humiliate its news division, ignore historians and insult Americans with a 9/11 docudrama that it knew was a tissue of lies?
Web
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Bush's Selective Perception
Ian Williams : President Bush's address to the UN General Assembly was less disdainful than earlier speeches, but it shined a light on the President's willful blindness to the complexity of the problems facing the Mideast and the world.
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TruthDig
Render Unto Syria
Robert Scheer : Will anyone in the somnambulant White House press corps dare ask the President why he would "render" a Canadian to Syria to be tortured and imprisoned without charges?
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The Real Crisis in Uganda
Salim Lone : The cease-fire between Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army is only a first step in resolving the humanitarian crisis. The West must push for the release of 2 million Acholis still languishing in government camps.
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Life After Net Neutrality: Replaced By a Chimp?
Jeffrey Chester : If Senator Ted Stevens defies mounting public opposition and succeeds in killing net neutrality, expect the free flow of online content to be replaced by lowbrow corporate infotainment.
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Southpaw
Sneakers for Social Justice?
Dave Zirin : New York Knicks point guard Stephon Marbury is getting props with a $14.98 sneaker designed to appeal to low-income kids. But the criticism he's endured over sweatshop labor shows it's hard to do good.
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New Bill Would Defend Marriage From Sharks
Some Democrats who say they support sharks' rights have been careful not to oppose the bill outright.
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Torture and the Content of our Character
Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith : The standoff between the Senate and the Bush Administration over military tribunals, torture and war crimes tests core legal and moral issues and will determine the kind of country America wishes to be.
Cover by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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