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John Nichols on torture, Gary Younge on Britain's Labor Party, Christine Smallwood on Philip Alcabes
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Obama's Tortured Turn
: Obama's reversal of the decision to release photos of detainee abuse is unsettling and wrongheaded.
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Bankers' Paradise
Christopher Hayes : Congress, at the behest of the banking industry, has changed accounting rules to make company balance sheets even more opaque. How is that going to help?
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Healthcare Bottom Lines
J. Lester Feder : A realistic public healthcare plan should rein in costs, fix uncompetitive markets and change the way medicine is practiced.
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Noted.
: After insulting veterans, Homeland Security gets a do-over on a report on right-wing extremism; mass transit comes to small towns.
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Pakistan's Missing Peace
Graham Usher : There's a hole in the heart of our Af-Pak policy. It's called peace between Pakistan and India. And no amount of aid will fill it.
Reviews
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The Kundera Conundrum
Jana Prikryl : How did Milan Kundera's antipathy toward the media become as curdled as the Czechs' allergy to his success?
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Puttin' on the Glitz
Natasha Wimmer : Set in the glossiest of sanctuaries, Rex is a complicated and dazzling indictment of contemporary fiction.
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Toad Skin?
Lorna Scott Fox : News From the Empire hacks out a sinuous, branching path that connects fantasy with fact and allegory with analysis.
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Adaptation
William Deresiewicz : If art is a product of the mind, and the mind a product of evolution, is art a product of evolution?
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Back Talk: Philip Alcabes
Christine Smallwood : Epidemiologist Philip Alcabes discusses the social fears surrounding epidemics and why risk can't be eliminated from life.
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Comfort and Agony
Ange Mlinko : Instead of offering healing or empowerment, the poetry of Jennifer Moxley explores vulnerability and "wrong life."
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No Ideas but in Crowds
Joshua Clover : In Paris Spleen, Charles Baudelaire crystallized a new feeling: the private life of the public turn.
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The Long Goodbye?
Elisabeth Sifton : Book publishers have always predicted that the end was nigh. When it does come they will have only themselves to blame.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
On Accusations That Nancy Pelosi and Others Were Briefed on Bush Administration Torture
Calvin Trillin : Eventually, instant karma's gonna get you.
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THE LIBERAL MEDIA
Do 'Better' With Less
Eric Alterman : Shortcuts, blindness and downright dishonesty in the rapidly imploding mainstream media.
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BENEATH THE RADAR
London Falling
Gary Younge : New Labour is finished. What replaces it will certainly be worse.
Crossword
Web
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Attacking Sotomayor: Race to the Bottom
Media Matters for America : Right wing commentators, with characteristic disregard for reason or reality, have already begun smearing Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
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The Border Violence Myth
Gabriel Arana : The national media have invented a drug-related crime wave that officials and local journalists say just isn't happening.
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What's Next For LGBT Equality?
GRIT TV : The Nation's Richard Kim joins a panel discussion on the impact of Prop 8 in California being upheld and more.
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TruthDig
California Budget Blues
Robert Scheer : If Citigroup is too big to fail, isn't the state of California? How the national economy can snap back to health if the federal government refuses to help?
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The Silence of MoveOn
Tom Hayden : MoveOn, once the most powerful grassroots peace organization, has rendered its members voiceless on the expanding wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan. And that silence sends a message.
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Steve Earle's Labor of Love
Charles P. Pierce : The music on Townes, Steve Earle's tribute to Townes Van Zandt, is simple and literally homespun. There is sinew to this music, and blood in the words.
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The Short of It
Chop Shops
Charles Taylor : Over a decade ago, in his novel The Ax, Donald E. Westlake captured the ruthlessness and anomie of economic Darwinism.
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The Greatest Swindle Ever Sold
Andy Kroll : How the financial bailout scams taxpayers, subsidizes Wall Street and props up our broken financial system.
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Ex-Interrogator: Torture Doesn't Work
Brave New Films : Former military interrogator Matthew Alexander refutes Dick Cheney's claim that torture saved American lives.
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Nation Forum: Sotomayor's Judicial Style
Three legal scholars assess the impact of Obama's nomination of Federal Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court.
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$1 Trillion and Counting...
Jo Comerford : The $1 trillion we have spent on war since 9/11 has placed enormous stress on our recession-struck economy.
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Cheney vs. Obama: The No-So-Epic Battle
The Daily Show : Jon Stewart surveys the coverage and content of President Obama's and Dick Cheney's concurrent national security speeches.
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Why Obama Needs Tough Love
VideoNation : Rep. Donna Edwards discusses the important role progressives should play in influencing the Obama presidency.
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Southpaw
New Orleans's Not-So-Super Bowl
Dave Zirin : Millions will be spent to bring the biggest event in sports to the Superdome, while the victims of Hurricane Katrina remain on the sidelines.
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The US Auto Industry: Down, But Not Out
The Ed Show : The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel on why the Obama administration needs to do more to create manufacturing jobs in the US.
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Republicans Debate 'Socialist' Resolution
American News Project : The GOP called a special session to debate a rebranding resolution... for the Democratic Party.
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