The New Right-Wing Smear Machine
Christopher Hayes : A web-savvy form of conservative propaganda, written anonymously and forwarded via e-mail, is altering the political landscape.
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Sharon Lerner on childcare, Sharon Posner on values voters, Laila Lalami on Zakes Mda.
Articles
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Beyond the Age of Petroleum
Michael T. Klare : Welcome to the Age of Insuffiency: As oil prices hit new highs and supplies sink, our way of life will drastically change.
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The Kids Aren't Alright
Sharon Lerner : President Bush's neglect of government-sponsored childcare programs has a steep price. Children are paying.
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Hawking War Guilt
Jim Sleeper : All the warmongering that's fit to print.
Letters
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Exchange
Our Readers & Joshua Kors : The Army Surgeon General and Joshua Kors discuss caring for wounded soldiers.
Editorials & Comment
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Stop the Media Grab
: If FCC chairman Kevin Martin prevails, Americans will be stuck with one-size-fits-all media and a downsized democracy.
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A Values Voters Schism
Sarah Posner : The Christian right is embroiled in an internal culture war, pitting true believers against pragmatists looking for a candidate to satisfy the antitax and neoconservative wings of the GOP.
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Noted.
: Dennis Hastert's Obama problem, California burning, Commentary old and new.
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The New McCarthyism
Larry Cohler-Esses : A network of right-wing activists on college and high school campuses are targeting Muslims, Arabs and other Mideast experts, indifferent to the truth or decency of their charges.
Reviews
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Revenants
Laila Lalami : In South African writer Zakes Mda's fiction, the past hovers like a ghost--seductive and terrifying.
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Shanker Blows Up the World
Thomas J. Sugrue : The life and legacy of a fiery New York teachers' advocate gets caught in the crossfire of a changing liberal landscape.
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Play It (Over and Over Again)
Travis A. Jackson : Ben Ratliff's not-quite biography of John Coltrane considers the jazz legend's enduring influence.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
Advise and Consent
Calvin Trillin : What sets Michael Mukasey apart from the rest of the Bush crowd?
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THE LIBERAL MEDIA
The Liberal Hawks' Lament
Eric Alterman : Consider the plight of the embattled liberal hawks and their lonely struggle to discredit the left.
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BENEATH THE RADAR
Thieves of Black History
Gary Younge : In the struggle over the ownership of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, black history is on sale at bargain prices.
Web
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Fired Up
All Trick, No Treat!
Annabelle Gurwitch : Will spec factory jobs be the next stage in US economic development?
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TRUTHDIG
Cashing In on Terror
Robert Scheer : What a boondoggle 9/11 has been for the merchants of war.
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Che Lives...on a T-Shirt
What progressives should know about Cuba's most iconic revolutionary.
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SOA Protest Draws Scant Support From Candidates
Patrick Mulvaney : As the eighteenth annual demonstration against the Army's School of the Americas nears, we quiz Democratic hopefuls on whether they would shut it down. Their answers are not encouraging.
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Howl
Give Us This Day Our Daily Debt
Nicholas von Hoffman : As the superrich get richer, the rest of us sink deeper into debt. But when American consumers can no longer consume, our whole system falls apart.
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Benazir Bhutto's Defining Moment
Graham Usher : She alone can mobilize Pakistan's poor with promises of democracy, development and free, fair elections. But does she have the power to ward off US meddling and stop Pakistan's slide into chaos?
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Bobby Jindal: Not Much to Celebrate
Billy Sothern : Some herald the election of an Indian-American Republican governor as a milestone, but the poor and black citizens of Louisiana aren't among them.
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Unseen Victims of California Fires
Amanda Martinez : Undocumented immigrants who have survived for years living along San Diego's hillsides and canyons now find themselves left out of relief efforts in the Southern California fires.
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The Culture War Descends on Columbia
Esther Kaplan : David Horowitz's Islamofascism Awareness Week hits the already beleaguered campus.
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Guest Workers in a Strange Land
Deepa Fernandes : Would a vastly expanded guest worker program benefit illegal immigrants? Just ask a guest worker.
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Anti-Gentrification Rebels
Increasing gentrification in America's midsized cities has spurred collective actions--and gained victories--among local communities fighting for their right to stay.
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Youth Guide to Politics Part 2: Lobbying
Lobbyists are powerful, influential and unelected folks who get Congress to do their bidding. What do youth need to know about these key players?
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Myanmar: Monks and the Military
Charles London : If the Buddhist sangha and the military are the two dominant forces in the suffering society of Burma, could monks and dissident soldiers join forces to rise up against an oppressive regime?
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Darfur's Divided Rebellion
Shane Bauer : As peace talks open between rebels and the government in Darfur, the question is: who speaks for whom?
Cover by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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