The Secret Government
Christopher Hayes : An effective investigation into the breadth of the CIA's interrogation programs must be bipartisan, similar to the work of the Church Committee in the 1970s.
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Katrina vanden Heuvel on the Manhattan District Attorney race, Calivin Trillin on town-hall meetings and Akiva Gottlieb on the writing of Hollis Frampton
Articles
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Shotgun Adoption
Kathryn Joyce : Christian agencies lavish support services on pregnant women--if they give up their babies.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Afghan War Turnoff
: Trust the judgment of the American majority, who say this war is no longer worth fighting.
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The Fighting Liberal
: Remembering Senator Edward Kennedy, who broke barriers of personality and partisanship.
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Flushing Blackwater
Jeremy Scahill : Recent disclosures of Blackwater's covert activities may finally force Congress to take action.
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Noted.
: Help for healthcare heroes; torture at the top.
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Paranoia Strikes Deep
Michael Kazin : If Obama and his progressive allies hope to defeat the latest assault on federal power, they will need to go beyond his artful ambivalence.
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Aborn for Manhattan DA
Katrina vanden Heuvel : An experienced prosecutor who knows that prevention is the best crime-fighting strategy, Aborn has fought for drug-law reform and sensible gun-control.
Reviews
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A Music of Austerity
James Longenbach : In his best poems, Wallace Stevens makes deprivation feel seductively like plenitude.
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art
Beyond Exhaustion
Barry Schwabsky : Does the art of Dan Graham and his disciples promise deceptive simplicity or formulaic thinking?
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Back Talk: Jarvis Cocker
Christine Smallwood : A conversation with the former frontman of Pulp about the sound of music in the digital era.
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Pattern Recognition
Akiva Gottlieb : A new volume of essays shows Hollis Frampton leaving behind photography for film.
Columns
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DIARY OF A MAD LAW PROFESSOR
Reverse Nazism and the War on Universal Healthcare
Patricia J. Williams : What's at stake could very well be nothing less than America's own Weimar moment.
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THE LIBERAL MEDIA
Novak Without Tears
Eric Alterman : It's time to do Robert Novak the honor of taking his life's work seriously.
Crossword
Web
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TruthDig
Obama's Meaningless War
Robert Scheer : The way he's headed on Afghanistan, Barack Obama is threatened with a quagmire that could bog down his presidency.
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Bush's Third Term?
David Swanson : Imagine that George W. Bush had been allowed a third term as president, had run and had won or stolen it, and that we were all now living (and dying) through it.
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Auden's Love Poem for Humanity
John Nichols : The poet's "September 1, 1939" saw the start of World War II and declared: "We must love one another or die."
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To Sleep, Perchance to 'Sleep and Think'
Ange Mlinko : Conlangs often succeed only in stripping language of its surprise.
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Obama Unshackles Global AIDS Work
Barbara Crossette : With the change in Pepfar guidelines, the Obama administration opens new opportunities to link AIDS work and family planning and strengthen health systems in developing countries.
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Planet Cheney and the Secret Government
The Rachel Maddow Show : The Nation's Chris Hayes calls for a wide-ranging investigation of torture policies similar to the Church Committee of the 1970s.
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Cheney Continues to Defend False Truths
Countdown : The Nation's Jeremy Scahill criticizes the former vice president's recent defense of torture and the media outlets who let him get away with it.
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Revealing Hate: Inside White Supremacy
YouTube : The upcoming film, Revealing Hate takes an in-depth look at the chilling history and present of America's white supremacist organizations.
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My Lai and Lockerbie Reconsidered
Nick Turse : The eerie confluence of the tales of two convicted mass murderers, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi and William Calley--and their fates.
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A Survival Guide for New Teachers of Color
Antonio Ramírez A Milwaukee teacher reflects on those first difficult years.
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Katrina's Hidden Race War: Four Years Later
CNN : A segment on Anderson Cooper 360 investigates the white vigilante justice that tore through New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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Memories of Ted Kennedy
Norman Birnbaum : Senator Kennedy was recognized worldwide as a leader of the American left. What is less recognized is his connection to a social justice-oriented Catholic faith.
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Slide Show: Ted Kennedy's Life & Legacy
A tribute to the late, great "Liberal Lion" of the Senate whose dream of a more compassionate nation will never die.
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Opposing Escalation in Afghanistan
David Cortright : Regardless of who started the war in Afghanistan, it is now Obama's war. Preventing military escalation is necessary if the president doesn't want it to become his Vietnam.
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