About Face
Marc Cooper : In the most significant movement of dissident soldiers since Vietnam, nearly 1,000 active-duty officers and enlisted personnel have petitioned the government to withdraw from Iraq.
Ian Williams closes the book on Kofi Annan's tenure at the United Nations, Mohamad Bazzi considers Hezbollah's future, Omer Bartov reviews Five Germanys I Have Known.
Articles
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Lt. Ehren Watada: Resister
Marc Cooper : Facing a showdown court-martial for refusing to serve in an illegal and unjust war, Lieut. Ehren Watada has become a flashpoint for the antiwar movement.
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People's Revolt in Lebanon
Mohamad Bazzi : By empowering the dispossessed, Hezbollah has become a formidable force that is threatening the US-backed Lebanese government.
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Annan's Principled Pragmatism
Ian Williams : Although Kofi Annan's tenure was shadowed by political catfights, he leaves the United Nations as one of its most successful secretary generals.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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The Urge to Surge
: Democrats in Congress must remember that their midterm victory was a clear mandate to reverse Bush's war policy.
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The Last Lennon File
Jon Wiener : The controversy over newly released files on John Lennon is less about Lennon than about excessive government secrecy.
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Get Carter
Chris Hedges : The flap over Jimmy Carter's new book underscores that the Israel lobby in the United States exists to serve only the interests of the Israeli right wing.
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'We Got To Do Better'
Amy Alexander : Looking at the longstanding debate in the black community over personal responsibility through the lens of hotghettomess.com.
Reviews
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book
Parasites of Plunder?
Richard J. Evans : Hitler's Beneficiaries advances a controversial, deeply flawed argument that Germans failed to revolt against the Nazis because Hitler established a welfare state built on plunder.
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book
Faraway, So Close
Omer Bartov : In his memoir Five Germanys I Have Known, Fritz Stern revisits his family's past and finds that he has never been quite at home.
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theater
Kids
Judith Levine : Spring Awakening is a highly politicized play that explores the sexuality of young teenagers and the adult heartache that can accompany it.
Columns
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THE LIBERAL MEDIA
And the Beat Goes On...
Eric Alterman : A new book examining civil rights coverage demonstrates that the best reporting sometimes requires journalists to toss objectivity out the window.
Web
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Heck-of -a-Job Myers?
Rick Perlstein : The ICE chief's comments about immigration and unions raise troubling questions. Congress should seek answers.
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TruthDig
An Act of Barbarism
Robert Scheer : Someone has to say it: The hanging of Saddam Hussein was an act of barbarism that mocks all of Bush's posturing on Iraq.
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Howl
Now You Tell Us, Jerry
Nicholas von Hoffman : Now that he is safely dead, good guy Jerry Ford has come out against the war.
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Rule of Noose
Bruce Shapiro : Justice and reconciliation for the victims of Saddam Hussein will not be found at the end of a hangman's rope.
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Questioning Capital Punishment
Bruce Shapiro : As doubts grow about the humanity and constitutionality of lethal injection, California, Florida and Maryland have shut down executions. America's flight from the death penalty continues.
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The Consequences of Killing Saddam
Robert Dreyfuss : More violence, waning chances for reconciliation and a trove of secrets taken to the grave.
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Campus Informer, December 20, 2006
Whites-only scholarship, hunger strike ends, leprechaun woes, and more news from schools across the country.
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Commanding Women: Feminist Linda Hirshman on women in the workplace
Feminist Linda Hirshman on women in the workplace.
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Diversity or Equality? A Talk With Walter Benn Michaels
Walter Benn Michaels: Diversity is no cure-all.
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Memo to Dems: About Those Earmarks
Christopher Hayes : As Democrats clean up abuse of earmarks, they can't ignore the ones that masquerade as targeted tax breaks.
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The Irrelevance of Joe Lieberman
Ari Melber : The fall and rise of Joe Lieberman was one of the major political events of 2006. But in 2007, Beltway and netroots pundits agree, he will be as irrelevant as George W. Bush.
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View From the Future
Rebecca Solnit : The end of oil and the rise of warming seas reveal a world made small and a horde of fallen dinosaurs.
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Taking Marriage Amendments to School: Students--and professors--challenge benefit bans
Students--and professors--challenge benefit bans.
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Constructing Progress: To build better campuses, students should get more involved
To build better campuses, students should get more involved.
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