All Aboard the McCain Express
Rick Perlstein : The conservative noise machine is coming around to support him--if it can keep its stories straight.
Patrick Cockburn on Muqtada al-Sadr, Nir Rosen on the surge, Calvin Trillin on the Democrats.
Articles
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Chalabi's Lobby
Aram Roston : Lobbyist Charles Black, now embroiled in controversy as a senior advisor to John McCain, was among those who aided Ahmed Chalabi's deceptive campaign for war in Iraq.
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Inside the Surge
Nir Rosen : The US occupation has torn Iraq into fragments, and sectarian militias are on the rise.
Letters
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Letters
Readers weigh in on our endorsement of Obama, our coverage of terrorism and our grammar.
Editorials & Comment
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Shown Up by Sadr, Again
Patrick Cockburn : To the humiliation of the US and Iraqi governments, the cleric's forces have faced down the Iraqi Army and are in control of Basra and half of Baghdad.
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Guantánamo Endgame
: New revelations of political interference in the prosecution of Gitmo prisoners shows Team Bush scrambling to keep one step ahead of history--and of criminal charges.
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Dems Flunking Trade 101
John Nichols : As Clinton rewrites the history of her support for NAFTA, Obama needs to prove he understands what's wrong with global trade pacts.
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Noted.
: Henry Paulson's pitiful reform; Michelle Bachelet, bedeviled by Opus Dei; Pentagon follies; and indecency in Indiana.
Reviews
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La Zone Grise
Alice Kaplan : Five books explore the sorrows and moral complexity of Irène Némirovsky and others who suffered Nazi persecution in France.
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Questions of Loyalty
Matt Steinglass : Revisionist histories of the Vietnam War challenge the notion that the South Vietnam government was a dysfunctional pseudo-state.
Columns
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On the Struggle For The Democratic Nomination
Calvin Trillin : The race is theirs to lose.
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Where Credit Is Due
Patricia J. Williams : To view education as a profit-making business is to attack the lifelong love of learning.
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Blowing Smoke
Katha Pollitt : In Nicholson Baker's cut-and-paste history, the "good war" is bad.
Web
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Iraq's Ruined Library Soldiers On
R.H. Lossin : Five years ago this week, US troops stood by as mobs sacked Iraq's revered National Library and Archives. Despite little outside help, a cultural treasure soldiers on.
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Painful Performance
Robert Scheer : By urging lawmakers to stay the course in Iraq, General David Petraeus remained loyal to his President, but failed the American people.
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Suffragist City
Mary Beth Norton : Two new books examine the history of the first women's rights campaign.
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Journalists As Truth-Tellers
Bill Moyers : Journalism can still make a difference, but the truth matters more. And if you can't get to the truth through journalism, there are other ways to get there.
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Fitna's Hateful Crusade
Aziz Huq : The new film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders is the latest in a series of stunts aimed at humiliating and scapegoating Muslims.
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Truckers Hit the Brakes
Barbara Ehrenreich : Hard hit by rising costs and the threat of losing their rigs, truckers are staging protests, calling for a bailout and lower fuel prices. What if the rest of us joined them?
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Fiction
Seems Like Old Times
Gary Phillips : This week's episode: Dieter Countryman reminisces about the good ol' days of selling the first Gulf War; Connie Waller gets his freak on in Vegas.
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Contract Justice
Jeremy Scahill : An Iraqi translator is prosecuted and Blackwater has its contract renewed for another year, armed and dangerous in Baghdad.
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Another KBR Rape Case
Karen Houppert : In the wake of Jamie Leigh Jones's highly publicized charges, a woman comes forward with new allegations of a brutal sexual assault and cover-up at a KBR camp in Iraq.
Cover illustration by Victor Juhasz; cover design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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