Ari Berman looks at Hillary and labor, Moshik Temkin remembers Sacco and Vanzetti, Daniel Lazare considers prison reform.
Christopher Hayes : The NAFTA Superhighway is a total myth. But the private Trans-Texas Corridor is all too real, foretelling a future America in which globalism and crony capitalism eclipse government as the provider of public services.
Lakshmi Chaudhry : The lovelorn, fragile women the media once revered have given way to skank posses of the skinny, the slutty and the overindulged.
Ari Berman
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Senator Clinton has a pro-worker voting record. So why are unionists skeptical?
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The Minneapolis bridge collapse should prod all presidential candidates, especially Democrats, to come up with real plans to fix our crumbling infrastructure.
Anya Kamenetz
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The Congressional overhaul of federal student aid is a good first step, but true reform of the system will require an effort on the scale of the GI Bill.
John Nichols : As he shapes the Senate farm bill, Tom Harkin should heed progressives and forge legislation that ends subsidies and gives a fair shake to family farmers.
Moshik Temkin : History sheds no new light on their guilt or innocence. But it does make clear that their trial and execution was an unjust and intolerable act of barbarism.
Robert Grossman : One lucky man!
Thomas Laqueur
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Two writers explore the perversion of our collective imagination and the ways that science and myth shape our understanding of spirituality.
Calvin Trillin
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The Corn Belt looks askance at a highly disagreeable field of GOP contenders.
Alexander Cockburn
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Are we better off or worse since the Democrats won back Congress?
Katha Pollitt : Michael Ignatieff apologizes for being wrong on Iraq. If only mainstream media acknowledged all the people who were right.
Patricia J. Williams : Congress bows to Bush and passes a law that allows blanket data-mining of all phone calls or e-mail by anyone, anywhere.
David Bacon : A federal judge in San Francisco has put on hold new Homeland Security regulations designed to crack down on illegal immigrants in the workplace.
Robert Scheer : The parade of political tourists to Iraq in recent weeks suggests that this murderous adventure will continue well into the next presidency.
Barbara Ehrenreich : The victims of the housing market's collapse are crippling an unjust economic system.
David Cole : If it had followed the rule of law from the outset, the Bush Administration could have brought many terrorists to justice by now.
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl : A student movement influenced by Hannah Arendt is emerging in Venezuela. What do they think of the Bolivarian Revolution?
Nicholas von Hoffman : In an effort to bolster the surge and tamp down violence in Iraq, the US military is buying off insurgents. But what happens if they don't stay bought?
Jordan Stancil : France's new president has launched an assault on the welfare state.
Robert Scheer : What in the world was Clinton thinking when she attacked Obama for pledging not to use nuclear weapons in the hunt for Osama bin Laden?
Tom Engelhardt : The cost of deploying a soldier, the number of bullets fired for each insurgent killed, the percentage of Iraqi babies born underweight. A portrait-by-numbers of the Iraq catastrophe.
David Rubenstein : The institutional neglect that brought Minnesota's Republicans into power has led to tragedy and scandal.
Billy Sothern : In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans's ruling class is demolishing public housing to make way for private businesses and expensive condos.
A new book looks at political expression from a global perspective.
Internet radio recently received another brief reprieve from excessive royalties. But will the booming medium ever be the same again?
E.J. Graff : What do the Democratic presidential candidates talk about when they talk about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues?
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