The Voter ID Fraud
Garrett Epps : The conservatives ensconced on the Supreme Court are set to uphold draconian ID requirements on voters that will redefine electoral politics in America.
John Nichols on John McCain, Chris Hedges on Christianizing history, Ruthie Ackerman on Liberia's child soldiers.
Articles
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Scars and Stripes
Ruthie Ackerman : Liberia's former child soldiers deserve more than the empty promises the world has given them.
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Repress U
Michael Gould-Wartofsky : Surveillance 101: Big Brother goes to college.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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The Race Is On
: Throw polls and pundits out the window: the race will be decided not by kingmakers but by the voters themselves.
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GOP Dilemmas
John Nichols : John McCain is just enough of an outsider to keep the GOP competitive in a "change" election.
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Noted.
: Rainbow/PUSH's Wall Street Project Economic Summit, the no-show Golden Globes, postwar suicides.
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Populism's Candidate
Christopher Hayes : No matter who wins the Democratic election, the John Edwards campaign has set the domestic agenda for the entire field.
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Kenya's Crisis
Tavia Nyong'o : The way to end Kenya's electoral violence is to demand a speedy return to full democracy, transparency and power-sharing.
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Obama's Wide Net
Ari Melber : His web-driven, self-starting activism could be the key to getting his message out--and bringing young voters to the polls on Super Tuesday.
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Christianizing US History
Chris Hedges : With House Resolution 888, the religious right seeks to rewrite American history, turning the founding fathers from deists to Christian fundamentalists.
Reviews
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United We Scam
Steve Fraser : Two new books profile the generation of counterfeiters and con men who sprouted up in Jacksonian-era America.
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Battle Pieces
Eric Foner : In This Republic of Suffering, historian Drew Gilpin Faust strips from the Civil War any purpose beyond massive slaughter.
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film
A Hard Man
Stuart Klawans : Paul Thomas Anderson's masterful There Will Be Blood pits an oil baron against a preacher in an epic contest of wills.
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music
Boogaloo Nights
Oliver Wang : A new generation rediscovers the freewheeling rhythms of the Nuyorican bugalú.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
A Lame Duck President During the Presidential Primaries
Calvin Trillin : Whatever happened to what's-his-name?
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DIARY OF A MAD LAW PROFESSOR
American Pie
Patricia J. Williams : Don't let the media or the right-wing spinmeisters reduce our first-ever serious black and female presidential candidates to stereotypes.
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THE LIBERAL MEDIA
The Lies of Quinn-Broderville
Eric Alterman : Truth, lies and attacks on Democrats from columnists at the Washington Post and the New York Times.
Web
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Nationalists Stirring in Iraq
Robert Dreyfuss : An emerging Sunni-Shiite coalition could change the face of Iraq--if the United States steps back and gets out of the way.
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A Great Deal of Work
George Scialabba : Edmund Wilson's politics have long been criticized, but his views were more nuanced than you might think.
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Lawyers for the Poor Muzzled in Subprime Mess
Laura K. Abel : Civil legal aid attorneys could have sounded the alarm years before the subprime scandal began destroying the lives of urban poor--but Congress wouldn't let them.
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TruthDig
Those Ungrateful Saudis
Robert Scheer : After all he's done for them, why is it that Bush only gets a 12 percent favorability rating in Saudi Arabia?
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King's Legacy of Change
Grace Lee Boggs : No single person can be the agent of change: the vision must come from all of us.
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Hillary's Real MLK Problem
Barbara Ehrenreich : "Change" is this year's Democratic battle cry, but if you don't know how it happens, you're not likely to make it happen yourself.
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Suharto's Passage: One Small Man Leaves a Million Corpses
Allan Nairn : Indonesia's dictator is fading fast: But what of his people's memories of the civilians he killed?
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Dirty Tricks, South Carolina and John McCain
Ann Banks : Undone in South Carolina by the Bush campaign's dirty tricks in 2000, John McCain now turns to the man who smeared him.
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'Catastrophic Times' for Black America
Max Fraser : The devastating impact of the mortgage crisis on black communities dominated Jesse Jackson's latest economic summit. What solutions does Barack Obama propose?
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The Real Mike Huckabee
Max Blumenthal : An interview with a preacher and longtime political confidant reveals that Huckabee's not the sunny figure the media's leading lights have conjured up.
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A Platter of Crow for the Pundits
Marvin Kitman : Political opinionators have a lot of explaining to do about their poor prognostication in New Hampshire.
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Southpaw
White Noise on the Golf Channel
Dave Zirin : After days of dithering, the Golf Channel finally suspends a commentator who joked about lynching Tiger Woods. What took them so long?
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Nepal's Next Steps
In one of the world's poorest nations, peace, hope and satellite phones emerge from a civil war.
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Reclaiming New York for Local Arts: ABC No Rio
Turn the Beat Around: How ABC No Rio artists bought a building for one dollar in one of the world's most expensive cities.
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New Hampshire: Youth Vote Results
Get ready, y'all--this election is going to be ours!
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Is the Death Penalty Dying?
New Jersey abolished the death penalty this week. Is this the beginning of a new trend?
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music
Bugalú Sounds
Oliver Wang : If you're curious to learn more about the bugalú, check out these five albums.
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How Do You Like Me Now?
Annabelle Gurwitch : If Hillary wants Americans to like her, she should start doing the things Americans like.
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