Talking With Tehran
Robert Dreyfuss : Can the United States and Iran negotiate an end to the nuclear standoff?
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Gary Younge on the decline of white America, Stuart Klawans on Alain Resnais's Wild Grass and Calvin Trillin on the Roman Polanski defenders
Articles
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Memo to Investigators: Dig Deep
William Greider : The first step toward lasting financial reform is to identify the roots of the crisis.
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Beyond Rescue
Noy Thrupkaew : The campaign against forced prostitution works when it addresses victims' needs.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Help Wanted
: Benefits extensions and retraining are not sufficient to address the staggering level of unemployment now facing Americans.
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Climate Roulette
Mark Hertsgaard : A frightening new climate change study says the United States must quit carbon within ten years.
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Noted.
: On healthcare, Representative Grayson lands a punch; momentum against "don't ask, don't tell"; Obama goes weak on press freedom; Greece votes socialist as Europe trends right.
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Tuesdays With Rahm
Christopher Hayes : The quickest way to Rahm Emanuel's bad side: put progressive pressure on conservative Democrats.
Reviews
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music
Waiting for the Miracle
David Yaffe : In Leonard Cohen's Afterworld, the trajectory between the latest hit and the wisdom of old has been a long one.
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book
End-of-Self Help
Alexander Provan : Is the task of philosophy "to learn how to die," or to teach that there is no such thing as a good death?
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
What Whoopi Goldberg ('Not a Rape-Rape'), Harvey Weinstein ('So-Called Crime') et al. Are Saying in Their Outrage Over the Arrest of Roman Polanski
Calvin Trillin : He's been punished for this lapse--exiled for decades from LA!
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THE LIBERAL MEDIA
Where Have You Gone, William Safire?
Eric Alterman : Newsrooms' fears of misunderstanding the right leads to outsized coverage and attention.
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BENEATH THE RADAR
Obama and the Decline of White America
Gary Younge : Marginal extremist voices are amplified by the right-wing echo chamber.
Crossword
Web
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Will Congress Pass a Strong Public Option?
GRIT TV : Author Sharon Lerner and Rep. Raul Grijalva discuss flaws in the Senate Finance Committee's health bill and increased popular support for a public option.
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ICE Program Under Fire
Jessica Weisberg : 287(g), the Department of Homeland Security program that empowers local police, like notorious Sheriff Joe Arpaio, to detain undocumented immigrants, is under scrutiny.
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Southpaw
My Response to Rush: It's the Racism, Stupid
Dave Zirin : The real reason Limbaugh is losing his cool is that his dream of owning an NFL franchise is going up in smoke.
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Gay Activists Split on Obama
Eric Naing : At this past weekend's National Equality March, fury, or at least frustration, with the president trumped hope. On four key gay rights reforms, the administration's support is decidedly mixed at best.
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Is Congress Opting Out of Real Reform?
GRIT TV : Is the so-called opt-out provision a worthy compromise for progressives who've already compromised just to get to a discussion of a public option?
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TruthDig
Public Health Before Wall Street Wealth
Robert Scheer : The healthcare debate has become a convenient distraction from the far more pressing issues surrounding the banking meltdown.
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Don't Ask, Don't Get
Dan Chandler : A grassroots group for LGBT activism, born at last weekend's National Equality March, plans to push Obama harder than established gay rights groups will.
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Obama at the Precipice
William J. Astore : Will Obama do any better at listening to critics of the Afghan War than Lyndon Johnson did on Vietnam?
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NFL: Are You Ready for Some Limbaugh?
The Rachel Maddow Show : The Nation's Dave Zirin weighs in on Rush Limbaugh's bid to buy the the St. Louis Rams football team.
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Al Qaeda in Afghanistan
Greg Kaufmann : At a recent Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, former CIA officers offered clear alternatives to escalation in Afghanistan.
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Southpaw
The NFL Must Flush Rush
Dave Zirin : Rush Limbaugh's long history of racism should be enough to quash his chances of becoming an owner in the National Football League.
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Are We the Twenty-First Century Martians?
Tom Engelhardt : Should President Obama and General McChrystal read the 111-year-old novel, The War of the Worlds?
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Honduran Coup Regime in Crisis
Greg Grandin : Those who seized power in June have polarized society, delegitimized political institutions and empowered social movements.
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Reflections on a Decade of Civic Revolutions in Latin America
Antonio Gonzalez & Miguel Tinker Salas : Having concluded that US and IMF/World Bank prescriptions failed their region, a new generation of leaders seek economic and social development through homegrown strategies.
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