Missing: The 'Right' Babies
Kathryn Joyce : Christian-right activists look at falling birthrates among whites and rising Muslim immigration in Europe and warn of a looming "demographic winter."
Alexander Cockburn on political mistakes, Frederika Randall on Italian politics, a poem by Charles Bernstein.
Articles
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Chafee Chastened
Eyal Press : In his recent memoir, former GOP insider Lincoln Chafee boldly decries the Bush era.
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Letter From Rome
Frederika Randall : Name-calling, spitting, politicians fainting in the Senate chamber and a Catholic drive to "convert the Jews"--this is Italian politics.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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More Guns, No Butter
: The bloated military budget is choking our democracy--and it must become an issue in the presidential campaign.
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Purple Obama
Bob Moser : While Obama was winning over Virginians he was not supposed to have a prayer with, McCain was losing some voters he must have.
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Noted.
: Uncommitted superdelegates, antiwar agitation in Berkeley, immunity for telecoms and more.
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Generation O
Cora Currier : The depth and substance of Obama's youth phenomenon has yet to be tested.
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Raise the Bar
Laura Flanders : Grassroots Democrats, parched for their party's attention, should play hardball with candidates on Iraq.
Reviews
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The Ice Forge
Jochen Hellbeck : The generation that came of age in Stalin's Russia was torn between perpetual fear and profound emotional investment in the Soviet ideal.
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Revolutionary States
Ronald Grigor Suny : Two new books take a closer look at the "Soviet monster" in an age of lazy, anti-Communist rhetoric.
Columns
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BEAT THE DEVIL
Mistakes They Made: From Hillary to Rush to Bush
Alexander Cockburn : Staying married, demonizing McCain, romancing Wall Street
Web
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'End the War in 2009'
Tom Hayden : Barack Obama has hastened his timetable for withdrawing troops from Iraq, setting the stage for an election battle with John McCain and the forces of neoconservatism.
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Potshots in Space
Tom Engelhardt : From the heaving deck of the USS Lake Erie, the Bush Administration takes shaky aim at a rogue satellite hurtling to Earh, carrying unknown secrets. The missile attack is purely humanitarian, they assure us.
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TruthDig
Castro and the Colossus
Robert Scheer : He caused the Cuban people much suffering, but the giant to the north bears even greater responsibility for the island's plight.
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The Day After Fidel
Peter Kornbluh : Most authoritarians leave office in a coup or a coffin. Fidel Castro is leaving on his own terms.
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Rigged Trials at Gitmo
Ross Tuttle : In an exclusive interview, Col. Morris Davis, former chief prosecutor for Guantánamo's military commissions, says that the Pentagon has foreclosed the possibility of acquittals.
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The History of Hope
Peter Dreier : Voters drawn to Barack Obama are often criticized as naive. But appeals to our collective hope for a more decent society are core to the American experience.
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The Film We Dreamed
Charles Taylor : In Zeroville, Steve Erickson explores New Hollywood's promise and doom and the dissolution of cinema into spectacle.
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Give Dennis Kucinich His Due
Steve Cobble : Routinely ridiculed as a political eccentric, Kucinich is a braver progressive than most. As he fights for his political life, he deserves our support.
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Unstoppable Obama
Barbara Ehrenreich : All of us, of whatever race, want a fresh start. That's what "change" means right now: Get us out of here!
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Southpaw
Steroid Circus on Capital Hill
Dave Zirin : Roger Clemens's face-off with lawmakers moved the guardians of our democracy far beyond the absurd.
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Fiction
Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho
Gary Phillips : Our Story: As the probe into the supposed suicide of her political mentor unfolds, Kang is grilled by an intriguing homicide cop, and suddenly new troubles develop.
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Candidate in a Corner
John Nichols : After the losses of February, Hillary Clinton must start March with wins that restore her delegate lead.
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