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.
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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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