The Lower Ninth Battles Back
Rebecca Solnit : Community members and outside organizations are working together to rebuild the Lower Ninth Ward.
Rebecca Solnit on reviving New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward, Christopher Ketcham on the localvores' hundred-mile diet, Christine Smallwood on Swiss writer Robert Walser.
Articles
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The Charter School Flood
Michael Tisserand : Drastic changes in the educational system are leaving New Orleans's public schools behind.
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Shouting Underwater
Walter Mosley : Two years ago, Katrina shed light on a harsh truth--we are all victims of a failed government.
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Locked Up in New Orleans
Robin Templeton : In response to a crime wave, police are imprisoning a record number of nonviolent offenders.
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GOP Clutches at Iowa Straws
Marc Cooper : The Iowa straw poll offered a penetrating glimpse into the crisis facing the Republican party.
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The Hundred-Mile Diet
Christopher Ketcham : A new way to fight global warming and corporate agriculture: Eat only locally grown food, and call yourself a localvore.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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After the Flood
: The toxic neoliberal policies used to rebuild New Orleans have led to a spiraling social crisis.
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Trauma in New Orleans
Dr. Marc Siegel : The city lacks the resources to address its residents' urgent mental health needs.
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Waiting for 'The Big One'
William Greider : Nobody knows if the current financial crisis could become the type of economic unraveling that makes history.
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Campaign ’08
The Economy Debates
Katrina vanden Heuvel & Robert L. Borosage : Want to know the real differences between the candidates? Listen to what they say about the economy.
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Exporting Instability
William D. Hartung : Mideast stability can't be promoted with arms any more than democracy can be imposed through the barrel of a gun.
Reviews
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book
An Inconvenient Truth
Andrew Cockburn : In 1988 US officials helped disguise Saddam's chemical attack on Halabja. But when it came time to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq, they acted outraged.
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My Bondage, My Freedom
Christine Smallwood : Robert Walser's writing--opaque and ethereal, provoking and digressive--is finally being introduced to American readers.
Columns
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THE LIBERAL MEDIA
It Ain't Necessarily So...
Eric Alterman : Despite what many in the media believe, the American public is interested in more than just right-wing punditry and celebrity gossip.
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LOOKOUT
Big Brother Democracy
Naomi Klein : Protesters in Quebec were treated like contestants in a reality show--put in a field and watched on TV monitors.
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BENEATH THE RADAR
The Dog Days of War
Gary Younge : Cindy Sheehan taught us that the only way to reach those who will go to the polls is by taking to the streets.
Web
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TruthDig
Bush's Deceitful Smiles
Robert Scheer : A deceitful President, masking the chaos his $3 trillion war has unleashed with photo-ops from Iraq, now confronts cynical Democrats in Congress poised to write another check, willfully blind to the waste of US and Iraqi lives.
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Homos, Hypocrites and Haters
Timothy Patrick McCarthy : The shaming and resignation of Senator Larry Craig proves that if you're going to be a hypocrite in American politics, it pays to be a straight hypocrite.
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Southpaw
Cleaning Up After the Orioles
Dave Zirin : Thanks to some major-league grassroots organizing, workers who keep Baltimore's Camden Yards pristine are close to winning the right to a living wage.
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The Mystery of Mother Teresa
Richard Rodriguez & Mary Ambrose : That a woman perceived of possessing great personal holiness turns out to be a person who suffered doubt in her experience with God deepens her mystery, rather than lessens it.
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Howl
The Fed Won't Help the Working Class
Nicholas von Hoffman : By pumping more money into the economy to bail out hedge funds and subprime lenders, the Federal Reserve will only worsen inflation's bite into average Americans' paychecks.
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Civics for Cheney
Stanley I. Kutler : The Vice President and his minions need an education in the rudiments of government. Where are the strict constructionists when we need them?
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Travails of the Super-Rich
Barbara Ehrenreich : Just in time for Labor Day, a new report on the gap between the boss and the average worker is a gleefully malicious attack on the richest CEOs.
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NASA Scientists Challenge Security Rules
Dave Lindorff : Wary of government efforts to silence global warming research, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab and Goddard Space Flight Center are going to court to block new security rules.
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The Madness of 'King' George
Simon Prentis : If the President is allowed to invoke the divine right of kings, the American Revolution will have come full circle.
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New Orleans Is Us
Billy Sothern : If the American people continue to avert their eyes from the slow death of an abandoned city, their communities may soon be next to fail.
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Skinhead Violence Rising in Russia
Alexander Zaitchik & Mark Ames : Copying the tactics of terrorists, neo-Nazi groups are targeting reformers, progressives and ethnic minorities.
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Cindy Sheehan's Political Ambitions
Cindy Sheehan & Katrina vanden Heuvel : A dialogue between the peace activist and The Nation's editor over Sheehan's plan to run for Congress against Representative Nancy Pelosi.
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TruthDig
A Legacy of Torture
Robert Scheer : The dark legacy of Alberto Gonzales--torture and a tainted judiciary system--will live on long after he leaves government.
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Mad Men's Retro Charm
Anna McCarthy : A cable hit's unabashed attachment to filthy habits, bad parenting and horrendous gender roles shows how far we've come from the Sixties.
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Whole Foods CEO Sows Wild Oats
Matthew Blake : America's favorite natural grocery chain is looking like just another greedy, antiunion corporation.
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Justice Denied
Aziz Huq : Alberto Gonzales leaves office with the Justice Department tarnished, the rule of law debased and our civil liberties significantly eroded. It now falls to Congress--and the next President--to repair the damage he's done.
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Bush's Napoleonic Folly
Juan Cole : Bush's war on Iraq mirrors Napoleon's invasion of Egypt--two disastrous attempts to reshape the Middle East.
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Education Among the Devastation
Post-Katrina student life is a balance of stress, studies and hope for the future.
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Future Civil Rights: Next Move Is Ours
We don't need to look for another Malcolm X or Martin Luther King Jr. to change our communities. We need to believe in ourselves.
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What Are Political Action Committees?
Political gold diggers abound throughout Washington, DC, and US state capitals. But what are PACs, what do they want and how do they affect us?
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book
Silent Witness
Ari Kelman : A batch of new books on Hurricane Katrina investigate who is to blame for the tragedy.
Cover photograph by Whitney Lawson, design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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