Gary Younge gives campaign advice to progressives, Daniel Lazare explores the Crusades, David A. Bell examines Vichy's moral failures.
Articles
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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The Odd Attack on Dean
: James Carville's bizarre attack on Howard Dean exposed an explosive battle for control between Clintonistas-in-waiting and advocates of renewal. This is a good fight to have.
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Taking Liberties
An Immodest Proposal
David Cole : Modesty is a virtue, but rather than telling the courts to practice restraint, the Bush Administration should rein in its own abuses of power.
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Big Win for Enviros
Mark Hertsgaard : America's environmentalists won big in the midterm elections. But can they make real progress on climate change by 2008 and beyond?
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Friedman's Cruel Legacy
William Greider : Milton Friedman's free-market faith produced a bastardized system of interest-group politics that favors sectors of citizens at the expense of many others.
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Prop 209: Ten Long Years
Carmina Ocampo : Ten years after its passage, California's Prop 209 has had a devastating impact on diversity in higher education.
Reviews
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Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind
John Leonard : Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day is actually four stories, each replete with brilliant patter, fancy footwork, wishful thinking and a plaintive ukulele.
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Not Dark Yet
Michael Wood : Gore Vidal's Point to Point Navigation is a brave and continuous affirmation of life and an assurance that though the Republic has been betrayed, we are not to give up hope.
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Getting Even
Stephen Amidon : Roald Dahl's Collected Stories are best enjoyed by adult readers who take their humor black.
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I Can't Get No Satisfaction
Christine Smallwood : Laura Kipnis's The Female Thing takes women to task for perpetuating the notion that they're vulnerable.
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The Collaborator
David A. Bell : The Unfree French looks at the German occupation of Vichy; Bad Faith is a grim biography of a French collaborator.
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Class Consciousness
Charles Taylor : Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford explores the contradictions of a social revolutionary possessed of an aristocrat's sense of the wrong and right kind of people.
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The Man Who Loved Children
Suzy Hansen : Adam Gopnik's Through the Children's Gate details the trials of a very smug and special class of parents raising children in post-9/11 New York.
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God's Willing Executioners
Daniel Lazare : God's War explores the barbaric clash of Christianity and Islam, and what happens when people follow religious voices that no one else can hear.
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A Life of His Own
Brenda Wineapple : Victoria Glendinning's biography of Leonard Woolf looks at a remarkable public intellectual whose life and work were eclipsed by his more famous spouse.
Columns
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THE LIBERAL MEDIA
Liar. 'Liar?'
Eric Alterman : Bush's contempt for the truth and for those whose job it is to find it has created an existential crisis for mainstream media.
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BENEATH THE RADAR
Their Opportunism, Our Opportunity
Gary Younge : Mainstream media have transformed the permanent presidential campaign into a never-ending soap opera. Progressives must create the movements that will influence whoever decides to run.
Web
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A Soldier's Story
Major Bill Edmonds : "For just a minute or two, step into my life. I am a soldier in the Army Special Forces, just back from Iraq, where I lived and fought beside my Iraqi counterpart as we battled the insurgency. I am a conflicted man."
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TruthDig
The Boomerang War
Robert Scheer : Bush launched the Iraq disaster, and it keeps coming back and hitting us in the head. And now he is counting on Iran to help bail us out.
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Howl
Coffee, Tea or Another Airline Merger?
Nicholas von Hoffman : As US Air seeks to create a mega-airline by gobbling up Delta, the evidence mounts that a free market in the sky just doesn't work.
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Protect the Vote Locally
Paul Rogat Loeb : As the Democratic majority in Congress weighs several measures to address voter suppression, the time is right for real voting reform on the local level.
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Emerging Writers
The Day the Music Died
Max Fraser : It's the end of the world as we know it: Tower Records, the last great CD emporium, is closing, victim of the iPod and MP3 revolution. As Wal-Mart and other big-box stores pick up the slack, will niche music also perish?
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Touch-and-Go Elections: The perils of electronic voting
The perils of electronic voting.
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Prop 87 Gets 86'ed: Californians fail to support a progressive energy policy.
Californians fail to support a progressive energy policy.
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The fetus is not the issue. The woman is.
The fetus is not the issue. The woman is.
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Kansas Outlaws Practice Of Evolution
In response to a Nov. 7 referendum, state lawmakers end the highly controversial process.
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CNN Renews This Week At War For Next Eight Seasons
"A premise like this can go on for a generation," says CNN President Jonathan Klein.
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