Race to the Bottom
Betsy Reed : How Hillary Clinton's campaign played the race card--and drove a wedge into the feminist movement.
Patricia J. Williams looks at the campaign, Stuart Klawans reviews Standard Operating Procedure, Scott Saul considers new books on Martin Luther King Jr.
Articles
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The New Geopolitics of Energy
Michael T. Klare : The Pentagon has now placed resource competition at the center of its strategic planning.
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Letter From Iran
Robert Dreyfuss : Iranians' attitudes toward Ahmadinejad range from sullen tolerance to bitter hostility.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Our Lapdog Media
: What should we do when Big Media fails democracy? First, don't let it get any bigger.
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Obama Under the Weather
Ari Berman : The Clinton campaign, bolstered by gotcha-style media, has slandered Bill Ayers and the Chicago charity that shaped Barack Obama's activism.
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Noted.
: Nasty political advertising in Mississippi and your bloated grocery bill.
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The Missing Debate
Stephen F. Cohen : Why aren't the presidential candidates talking about Moscow's impact on our national security?
Reviews
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A Deeper Black
Ta-Nehisi Coates : Shelby Steele's book on Barack Obama, an outdated critique of identity politics, misses the candidate's essential power.
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Sweet Martin's Badass Song
Scott Saul : Several new books on Martin Luther King take a closer look at the rhetoric and economic politics of the civil rights icon.
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Photo Ops
Stuart Klawans : Errol Morris's new documentary Standard Operating Procedure lacks critical distance but produces masterful evocations of Abu Ghraib.
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Back Talk: John Turturro
Christine Smallwood : Actor John Turturro discusses his latest project, a production of Beckett's Endgame at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
John McCain, Demonstrating His Intention to Make Inroads Among African-American Voters...
Calvin Trillin : But guess who showed up instead?
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Comix Nation
Taint Funny
Robert Grossman : Suddenly Obama-Man isn't feeling so good... he's only faster than a speeding suction cup arrow now!
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DIARY OF A MAD LAW PROFESSOR
Let Them Eat Waffles
Patricia J. Williams : How can Barack Obama--or any candidate--overcome the sad hypocrisy of our public discourse?
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THE LIBERAL MEDIA
Mickey Mouse Media
Eric Alterman : A serious debate focused about torture, wiretapping, food prices, world hunger... oh, wait. That's the kind of fairy tale they don't do at Disney.
Web
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TruthDig
Battle of the Hawks
Robert Scheer : In the increasingly unlikely event of a McCain-Clinton election, people who care about peace have serious reason to worry.
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Clintons in Denial
Tom Hayden : Tuesday's elections show the Clintons are beyond persuasion or capable of thinking beyond their own interests.
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Looking Past Clichés
Laila Lalami : The Visitor is that rare film that defines Arabs not as ethnic or religious stereotypes but as individuals.
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Fired Up
Poor Is the New Rich!
Annabelle Gurwitch : As waves of poverty wash over the once-affluent, it's nice to know that you can share the pain.
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Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Billy Sothern : As executions resume in the wake of a Supreme Court decision, we are reminded that a life cannot be willfully ended without violence.
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Gas Tax Holiday (from Reality)
Talking Points Memo : As far as Hillary Clinton is concerned, if you disagree with her gas tax plan, you're an elitist.
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Fiction
Pillow Talk
Gary Phillips : This week's episode: Cyrus Kang and Conrad Waller find driving in LA can be hazardous, Congresswoman Kang and a LAPD detective get down.
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Vermont Students Join May 1 War Protests
Benjamin Dangl : As West Coast dockworkers stopped work at twenty-nine ports on May Day, students in Vermont took antiwar protests to the offices of a General Dynamics plant.
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Stephen F. Cohen: Tributes by Gorbachev and Yevtushenko
Mikhail S. Gorbachev & Yevgeny Yevtushenko : A statesman and a poet pay tribute to a historian of Russia.
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Free Association: Internet Neutrality and the Struggle for Equal Access
What do OK Go!'s Damien Kulash, the Raging Grannies and the Christian Coalition have in common? They all want net neutrality.
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Why Build a Movement Among Youth-Driven Music Spaces?
Because using the most popular form of cultural expression among youth may be the best way to build power and promote activism.
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Guantánamo Ain't No Joke
Shayana Kadidal : Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantánamo Bay is very funny. Nothing about the real place is.
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Anti-Nuke Youth: The Next Generation
They're not waiting for WWIII: The millennial generation sets out to promote peace and a world without nukes.
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