Lockdown in Greeley
Marc Cooper : A recent police raid on a small-city factory showcases the Bush Administration's frightening war on illegal immigration.
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Molly Ivins, in her own words; Victor Navasky on Venezuela; Amanda Spake on Katrina survivors sickened by FEMA trailers.
Articles
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Dying for a Home
Amanda Spake : The shoddy construction of FEMA's trailers has led to an epidemic of respiratory illness among Katrina refugees.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Into 2008
: America's next President must have a big heart, an open mind and the passion to set the nation on the way to equality, opportunity, true democracy and social justice.
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Molly, in Her Own Words
: From the pages of The Nation, here's a sampler of Molly Ivins at her best.
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Green Times
Killer Weather Ahead
Mark Hertsgaard : The good news on the latest global warming report: Political leaders can no longer ignore it. The bad news: It's probably too late.
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Mission to Caracas
Victor Navasky : Hugo Chávez's critics may mock his ideas of twenty-first-century socialism as empty rhetoric. Perhaps it's more like magical realism--still a fiction, but one to be nourished as a realizable ideal.
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Kill the Death Penalty
Sunil Dutta : The time has come for the US to join the rest of civilized nations and abolish capital punishment.
Reviews
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book
The Thought Experimenter
Jackson Lears : A new biography of William James portrays a man who made a brilliant career of asking tough questions.
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book
Careful, He Might Hear You
Ali Sethi : In the Country of Men tells the story of a Libyan boy whose dissident father is wanted by the authorities.
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film
The Spy Who Loved Me
Stuart Klawans : Reviews of The Lives of Others and Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams.
Columns
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THE LIBERAL MEDIA
Dude! Where's My Debate?
Eric Alterman : The majority of Americans support fair-trade policies--so why do mainstream pundits treat the idea with so much contempt?
Web
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Emerging Writers
The Daffodil Delusion: Sensationalizing Global Warming
Michael Corcoran : Media frenzy to the contrary, a warm winter doesn't point to the end of the world--scientific evidence does.
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Southpaw
Out of the Closet and Onto the Court
Dave Zirin : Former NBA player John Amaechi's admission that he is gay exposed the league's compassion and bigotry.
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Bush's Somalia Strategy Enables an Ethiopian Despot
Paul Wachter : Washington is all too happy to overlook the undemocratic excesses of Ethiopia's Meles Zenawi, who has pledged his support for Bush's "war on terror."
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Howl
Wanted: A Binding Resolution on Iran
Nicholas von Hoffman : As debate unfolds on a non-binding Iraq resolution, the House should consider exacting a promise from President not to invade Iran.
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Thelma and Louise Imperialism
Tom Engelhardt : Are Bush and Cheney so wedded to their delusions that they might gun the car and head directly over the cliff in a confrontation with Iran?
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Howl
The Worst President Ever
Nicholas von Hoffman : Is George W. Bush the worst President the United States has ever seen?
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TruthDig
Levin's Pursuit of Douglas Feith
Robert Scheer : Sen. Carl Levin is determined to get to the bottom of how Douglas Feith's false intelligence helped lead the US to a disastrous and illegal war.
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Oh, Obama!
Personal Voice: "I know it is too early to make claims about his greatness or even his capacity to handle the job, but it is not too early to tell you how he makes me feel."
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The Maya Survivors vs. Los Genocidios: Part Two
The second half of an interview with Maya activist Antonio Caba on the fight of indigenous Guatemalans to pursue justice for the recent, unpunished genocide targeted at them.
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Mother Tongue: Mother Jones's new female co-editors on men, women, and journalism
Mother Jones's new female co-editors on men, women, and journalism
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Alfalfa Sprouts Dissent: Bush's elite base turns against him at annual Alfalfa Club Dinner
Bush's elite base turns against him at annual Alfalfa Club Dinner.
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Sea No Evil: Americans should open their eyes to the reality of climate change.
Americans should open their eyes to the reality of climate change.
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Feith-Libby Lies Exposed
Robert Dreyfuss : A new Pentagon report documents how the Bush Administration fooled us once with lies about Iraq's Al Qaeda ties. Will that keep them from fooling us again on Iran?
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In Gaza, Circles of Hell
Jen Marlowe : Dante's circles of hell provide an apt metaphor for the Palestinian experience in Gaza. And it can only get worse.
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Will the Watada Mistrial Spark an End to the War?
Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith : Now that Lieut. Ehren Watada's court-martial has ended in mistrial, his case could focus America's attention on how we came to fight an illegal war and what we must do to end it.
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Terror at the Nixon Library
Jon Wiener : A new exhibit inadvertently displays why Americans might be confused about what terrorism is and how to fight it.
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