The Wages of Peace
Robert Pollin & Heidi Garrett-Peltier : Spending on the war in Iraq is a job killer. Ending the war would be the real stimulus package.
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Calvin Trillin on Mike Huckabee, Alexander Cockburn on Eliot Spitzer, Debbie Nathan on the brutal death of Javier Domínguez.
Articles
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The War and the Working Class
Michael Zweig : Young people drawn into combat by the "economic draft" are being treated just as poorly as all the other workers in this neoliberal economy.
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Class War (chart)
Who's losing and who's winning at home from the US occupation of Iraq?
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Who Said the War Would Pay for Itself? They Did!
Victor Navasky & Christopher Cerf : Unwise words from the "experts" who promised a cost-free war.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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It's the War Economy, Stupid!
: Among the major causes of the current economic crisis is the staggering cost of the war in Iraq.
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The Torture Veto
David Cole : Bush has made history by being the first American President to use his veto power to preserve torture.
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Time for a Revote
John Nichols : Holding Democratic primaries in Florida and Michigan a second time would send the message that Americans do not need to accept illegitimate elections.
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A Sea-Change Election?
Robert L. Borosage : The 2008 presidential election could signal the most dramatic political shift since Reagan.
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Border Death Backstory
Debbie Nathan : The trial for the murder of undocumented immigrant Francisco Javier Domínguez stripped him of his humanity. The retrial must not make the same mistake.
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Smearing Obama
Ari Berman : False claims about Obama intended to stoke racial and religious fear are trickling from the far right to the mainstream media.
Reviews
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A Garden of Monsters
Carmen Boullosa : The imaginary fascists in Roberto Bolaño's ironic encyclopedia Nazi Literature in the Americas bear a complex relationship to reality.
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Windows Into the Night
Marcela Valdes : The collected nonfiction of Roberto Bolaño is a treasure trove filled with straw and dust, jewels and gold.
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Un Lio Bestial
Forrest Gander : In his poetry Roberto Bolaño gave himself over to the subversive, to antiheroes, ballad and saga.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
Democrats Bid a Fond Farewell to Mike Huckabee
Calvin Trillin : Saying goodbye to the Republicans' funniest candidate.
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BEAT THE DEVIL
The Spitzer Sting
Alexander Cockburn : Was there a medium-sized right-wing conspiracy to nail Eliot Spitzer?
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SUBJECT TO DEBATE
John Q. Public
Katha Pollitt : Just once it would be nice to see a male politician caught in a sex scandal stand up there at a press conference all by himself.
Web
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Southpaw
Carrying a Torch for Tibet
Dave Zirin : Protest is as much a part of the Olympic tradition as lighting the torch.
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Iraq: The View from Year Six
Tom Engelhardt : In March 2009, no matter who is president, Iraq will still be hell on Earth.
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Hillary's Nasty Pastorate
Barbara Ehrenreich : When it comes to unsavory religious affiliations, Hillary Clinton is a lot more vulnerable than Obama.
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China's Olympic Delusion
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom : Cracking down once again in Tibet, China seeks to control the script on its flawed human rights record, yet still be regarded as a suitable host for the Olympics. Dream on.
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TruthDig
The Idiot's Grin
Robert Scheer : Presiding over a disastrous war and an unconscionable taxpayer bailout of Wall Street, why is George W. Bush still smiling?
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Blackwater Seeps Into the Campaign
Jeremy Scahill : Clinton and Obama each have nuanced plans to ban private security firms from Iraq. The difference is how they're spinning them.
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Blackwater, the Campaign Issue
Jeremy Scahill & VideoNation : In this interview with RealNews, Nation Correspondent Jeremy Scahill explains how Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama differ on the use of private security contractors in Iraq.
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Notes on a Scandal
JoAnn Wypijewski : The Spitzer affair's obvious rationality continues to elude the therapists, sexperts and pundits for whom shame is the game.
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Obama, Politics and the Pulpit
Christopher Hayes : The uproar over intemperate remarks by Obama's former pastor reveals all that's repellant in our national discourse over race, religion and politics.
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The Experts Speak on Iraq
Victor Navasky & Christopher Cerf : To mark the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War, some daily inspiration from the experts who led us there.
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The Short of It
Final Fantasy
David Waldstreicher : Susan Faludi's Terror Dream made a provocative splash, but therapy is no substitute for understanding reality.
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Howl
Economic Chaos, Political Consequences
Nicholas von Hoffman : As the federal bailout of the banking industry continues, is it too much to ask that McCain, Clinton and Obama abandon their blue-sky promises and address reality?
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Tracing Slavery's Past
Te-Ping Chen : On the bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade, a documentarian tries to come to grips with her family's history in the trade.
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Who's Illegal? How Immigration Defines the '08 Election
Conservative efforts to demonize undocumented immigrants have only energized a new generation of immigrant rights leaders.
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Moving Pictures: Book Reveals Incarcerated Youth Art
A generation of incarcerated Bay Area youth seizes the pen.
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Fiction
Daydreaming and I'm Thinking of You
Gary Phillips : This week's episode of Citizen Kang: The Congresswoman's chief of staff gets shot at and Kang lets her mind wander into dangerous territory.
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Reviving Vietnam War Tactics
Tom Hayden : One of Gen. Petraeus's top advisors advocates a return to the global Phoenix program used during the Vietnam War.
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Nation Editor Comments on Spitzer Scandal
Katrina vanden Heuvel & VideoNation : On MSNBC's Morning Joe, Nation editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel talks about the Spitzer scandal and what it means for New York.
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