The Liberation of Reverend Wright
Eudora Smith : The media's portrayal of Obama's former pastor as racist reflects an ignorance about the black church and its rhetorical traditions.
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Henry Siegman on tough love for Israel, Ari Berman on Pennsylvania's Obamicans, Nathaniel Friedman on Mable John
Articles
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Bowling for Pennsylvania
Gaiutra Bahadur : Can Barack Obama get racially mixed communities in Pennsylvania's small towns to bowl together?
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Pennsylvania's 'Obamicans'
Ari Berman : Democratic activism and Obama's campaign have turned Doylestown, Pennsylvania, from solid red to purple--maybe even blue.
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Leaving Cheyenne Mountain
William J. Astore : Post-cold war America is looking a lot like the former Soviet Union.
Letters
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Letters
Our Readers : Diverse opinions on the Fed, the New Deal...and more about our choice of words.
Editorials & Comment
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Olympic Flame Out
: Boycotts of the Beijing Olympics are easy. What's harder is moving China towards meaningful progress on human rights.
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KBR's Rape Problem
Karen Houppert : Three women contractors raped in Iraq testify before a Senate committee: why has the Justice Department failed to prosecute crimes like these?
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Noted.
: Frederika Randall on Berlusconi's return, John Nichols on fast-tracking Colombia, Jayati Vora on Patrick Cockburn's Muqtada, Christopher Hayes on the new Israel lobby.
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Seeking Superdelegates
Ari Melber : Online activists are shining much-needed light on superdelegates, revealing who they are and how they'll vote--and asking why we need them.
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Tough Love for Israel
Henry Siegman : Another Middle East peace conference? Statesmen instead should have the moral and political courage to end the massive hoax the peace process has become.
Reviews
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Arms and the Right
Daniel Lazare : Two books dissect the contentious, confusing debate over gun control and the frequently misinterpreted Second Amendment.
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Every Photo an Archive
Susie Linfield : Peppered with moving, thought-provoking elements, the photographic exhibition "Archive Fever" is fascinating but essentially incoherent.
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Her Good Thing
Nathaniel Friedman : The versatile vocalist Mable John, now a novelist and minister, has come a long way since the 1960s soul era that made her (almost) famous.
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Back Talk: Nicholson Baker
Christine Smallwood : In the debut of a new biweekly series, the author of Human Smoke discusses pacifism and World War II.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
Stephen Hadley Says an Olympic Boycott Is a 'Cop-out' on the Tibet Issue Compared With Our 'Quiet Diplomacy' With China
Calvin Trillin : Just keep it coming.
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THE LIBERAL MEDIA
Motzira-Making on the Right
Eric Alterman : The politics of tenure at Barnard and beyond.
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BENEATH THE RADAR
Bitter Fruit in Pennsylvania
Gary Younge : If Obama's remarks on poor white voters were gauche, the responses they elicited have been galling.
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Dreaming Obama in North Carolina
Tom Hayden : Conversations with historian John Hope Franklin and civil rights heroes about race, memory and the possibility of change.
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Protecting the Rights of Millionaires
Laura MacCleery : By equating money with free speech, is the Supreme Court defending the right of the rich to steal elections?
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Did Race Win the Race for Hillary?
Gaiutra Bahadur : Does living in mixed communities make people less or more vulnerable to campaigning that plays on ethnic and racial divisions?
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TruthDig
The Intemperate Candidate
Robert Scheer : Hillary Clinton's intemperate remarks about "obliterating" Iran cloud her primary win with questions about her judgment.
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Why Hillary Makes My Wife Scream
Tom Hayden : By trying to inflict maximum damage on Obama, she's threatening the Democratic Party's chances for the White House. Progressives need to intervene.
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The Fabulous Life of John McCain
Progressive Media USA : John McCain thinks America's financial crisis is just "psychological." If he can't understand our country's economic problems, how will he solve them?
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Youth Protests Outshine Olympic Torch
Cora Currier : Tibetan-led youth groups are proving the power of grassroots organizing with their highly effective Beijing Olympics protests.
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The Short of It
The Light Stuff
Melanie Rehak : The Kindle e-reader lightens your load, but can you curl up with it in bed?
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Southpaw
Can the Golden State Warriors Save Oakland?
Dave Zirin : The Warriors will miss this year's NBA playoffs, but they can still be winners by reaching out to at-risk youth in Oakland.
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Fox News' Obama Lies Are Spreading
Brave New Films : We'd expect Fox News to cover Barack Obama unfairly, but who knew the so-called "liberal media" would follow their lead so often?
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Fiction
Ceremonies of the Strange
Gary Phillips : In this week's episode of our political novella, Congresswoman Kang finds the trail to the truth is more crooked than straight.
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Rehabilitation, Resurrected
David Cole : This year nearly 700,000 inmates in US prisons will be granted their freedom. And in a rare act of bipartisanship, a new law provides millions to rehabilitate them.
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Journalists Slam ABC Debate Tactics
In an open letter to ABC News, a group of journalists and media analysts condemns the network's poor handling of the latest Clinton/Obama faceoff.
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Sustainable Punk
A New York skateboard manufacturer is creating green-collar jobs.
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Remembering Virginia Tech
"It really does bother me because I still understand I could have been killed so easy, and there is no explanation why I wasn't."
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