The New Atheists
Ronald Aronson : An increasingly outspoken community of atheists and agnostics is getting fed up with being marginalized, ignored and insulted.
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Gara LaMarche on criminal justice reform, Patricia Williams on juries and the death penalty, and a Susan Stewart poem.
Articles
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Coming to America
Felicia Mello : The US guest-worker program has locked thousands in a modern-day form of indentured servitude.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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The Great Pretender
: The President's phony internationalism falls flat at the G-8 summit, more proof he has eroded US global leadership and cooperation.
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Jackal Time
Robert L. Borosage : Will the Supreme Court declare banks immune from liability for their role in the Enron debacle?
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Neoconned Again
John Nichols : Expect no changes as Bush Administration hit man Robert Zoellick takes the helm of the World Bank.
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Summer Lunch Crunch
Herman Schwartz : It's going to be a hungry summer for low-income kids on vacation from school lunch programs.
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After Willie Horton
Gara LaMarche : Criminal justice reform, absent from the progressive agenda, must be a priority for Democratic candidates.
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Farewell, Tony and Carm
Max Fraser : As we begin our final hour with Tony Soprano and his two families, it's hard not to feel a familiar sense of loss.
Reviews
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book
Chinese Mirrors
Rick Perlstein : China has become like Israel: No matter the party, no matter the leader, the US government will defend its actions.
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film
Good News From Romania?
Stuart Klawans : 12:08 East of Bucharest is a hilariously bleak film set on the sixteenth anniversary of Romania's revolution.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
Alberto Gonzales Is Still at His Post
Calvin Trillin : Don't worry, he's got it all under control.
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BEAT THE DEVIL
Dissidents Against Dogma
Alexander Cockburn : Even more contrarian thinking about global warming.
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SUBJECT TO DEBATE
Tough Luck, Ladies
Katha Pollitt : The Roberts Court rules that six months into being screwed by your boss, pay discrimination is your own damn fault.
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DIARY OF A MAD LAW PROFESSOR
Divining Demeanor
Patricia J. Williams : The latest Supreme Court ruling on the death penalty will give prosecutors huge latitude to pick jurors who enthusiastically embrace capital punishment.
Web
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Sick Children, Working Moms
Ellen Bravo : Guilt-ridden mothers send ailing kids to school or daycare for fear of losing their jobs. Isn't it time for paid family leave?
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TruthDig
President Lieberman: A Cautionary Tale
Robert Scheer : What would have happened if, by some twist of fate, Sen. Joe Lieberman had ended up in the White House instead of George W. Bush?
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Russian Protests: The Big Guessing Game
Mark Ames : After a surprisingly peaceful weekend of rallies, the first signs of dialogue between the Other Russia movement and the Kremlin are emerging. Will it last?
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The Trouble With the Super-Rich
Barbara Ehrenreich : A bloated overclass can drag down a society as surely as a swelling underclass.
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What America Owes its 'Illegals'
Barbara Ehrenreich : The punitive rage directed at illegal immigrants grows out of a larger blindness to the manual labor that makes our lives possible.
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Wall Street, Iraq and the Declining Dollar
Ken Miller : The Iraq War, the declining supply of oil and a flood of US currency are setting the stage for economic disaster.
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Politics Watchdog Follows the Money Online
Joan Hamilton : MAPlight.org, a Berkeley-based online watchdog, is breaking ground by using technology to track how political contributions shape legislation.
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In Praise of Immigrant Students
Ellen Chesler : The educational odysseys of Hunter College's foreign-born graduates disprove the lies spread by anti-immigrant politicians.
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A White House Plan to Erode Our Liberties
Aziz Huq : Beyond its power to jail terror detainees, the Military Commissions Act is the spearhead of a more sustained and long-term incursion on all our civil liberties. It must be rolled back.
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Are We Disturbing?
Robert S. Eshelman : As leaders of the G-8 Summit played power politics at an opulent resort, protesters displayed a people's power, in demonstrations and at an alternative summit.
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A Permanent Military Empire
Tom Engelhardt : To mainstream media, the Bush Administration's full-scale garrisoning of Planet Earth is simply not a news story. But in Iraq beyond, America's empire of permanent bases grows at an alarming pace.
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television
The Sopranos' Last Song
Max Fraser : With an ominous sense of foreboding, Tony Soprano takes his last drive down the Jersey Turnpike, after seven seasons and 86 bloody, sexy, curse-ridden episodes.
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