9/11: The Roots of Paranoia
Christopher Hayes : Public paranoia and a credulous establishment media that have failed to aggressively report on 9/11 have allowed a cult-like "Truth Movement" to fill in the gaps.
Stephen F. Cohen examines the collapse of the Soviet Union, Patricia J. Williams considers Michael Richards and other racists, Tony Hoagland salutes Eleanor Lerman, winner of the 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.
Articles
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The Soviet Union, R.I.P.?
Stephen F. Cohen : The collapse of the Soviet Union was far from inevitable: A historic opportunity to democratize and marketize Russia by more gradual means was lost--and the people paid the price.
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Free-Trade Bondage in Jordan
Kristen Gillespie : The Jordan-US free-trade agreement was supposed to be a labor-rights model. It's been a disaster.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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No Graceful Exit
: The Iraq Study Group report may slow the impetus for immediate withdrawal from Iraq. Those who seek genuine military disengagement must make their voices heard.
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The Other Lieberman
Ben Lynfield : Many Israelis and their US supporters are sleeping through the rise of the virulently anti-Arab Avigdor Lieberman, seen as a threat to democracy itself.
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Latin Left Turn
Daphne Eviatar : Hugo Chávez was re-elected not for his admiration of Castro but for presiding over a robust economy and aggressively improving the lot of Venezuela's poor.
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Brady Kiesling's Tale
Scott Sherman : A disenchanted diplomat who lost faith in the Bush-era State Department and resigned over the war in Iraq remains idealistic.
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Nation Note
: After a memorable thirty-five years, Grace Schulman steps down as Nation poetry editor.
Reviews
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book
The Plot Against Equality
Robert S. Boynton : Walter Benn Michaels's The Trouble With Diversity challenges us to remove our race-tinted glasses and view the world in the class-based terms that, he argues, define it.
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book
Uncle Tom's Shadow
Darryl Lorenzo Wellington : The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin explores one of the most influential novels in American history.
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poetry
2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize: Eleanor Lerman
Tony Hoagland : Eleanor Lerman's poems sing a song that is bravely gloomy, but they sing it with a fierce and earned dignity.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
On the Iraq Memo Donald Rumsfeld Wrote as He Was About to Be Fired
Calvin Trillin : Goodness, gracious! He was right all along.
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DIARY OF A MAD LAW PROFESSOR
America to Me
Patricia J. Williams : What, exactly, does America look like to people like Michael Richards, Mel Gibson and Richard Viguerie?
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THE LIBERAL MEDIA
Point, No Counterpoint: The Conservative Beat
Eric Alterman : The New York Times editors do a service by covering right-wingers: It would make sense to similarly cover progressives. Why don't they?
Web
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Howl
Counting Our Casualities in Iraq
Nicholas von Hoffman : We are fast, too fast, approaching the 3,000th American combat death in Iraq.
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TruthDig
The Rumsfeld Legacy
Robert Scheer : Donald Rumsfeld pops over to Iraq to tell his final lies.
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Moral Compass
Globalization with a Human Face
Mohammad Yunus : Globalization must not be allowed to become financial imperialism: Capitalism's strongest-takes-all rule must give way to one that ensures that the poor have a place and a piece of the action.
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Dictator Slays Millions in Last-Minute Push to Be Time's Man of the Year
Myanmar's brutal ruler Than Shwe is angling for the honor.
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Iraqis Seek to Stem Sectarian Violence
David Enders : As the situation worsens and pressure builds for new US strategies, Iraqi groups are making tentative moves to stem sectarian violence.
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Battleground Cinema
Joseph Huff-Hannon : Video activists and independent filmmakers are on the ground in war zones from Iraq to Lebanon and Gaza, using documentaries as instruments of peacemaking.
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Howl
Sweepstakes of Greed, 2006
Nicholas von Hoffman : It's getting close to New Year's and time for annual awards. And in the 2006 Sweepstakes of Greed, the winners are...
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