Princeton Tilts Right
Max Blumenthal : Robert George, the conservative movement's favorite professor, exerts his influence.
Norman Mailer draws up a list of how life has changed, Alexander Cockburn laments the state of bobwhite quail and David Bromwich reviews Richard Schickel's biography of Elia Kazan.
Articles
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The Fight for Haiti
Kathie Klarreich : Now that René Préval has been elected Haiti's new president, the question is whether he can move the country forward.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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A Fabric of Illegality
: The White House practices the dark arts of trashing whistleblowers who exposed prisoner abuse at Guantánamo and the warrantless spying program, adding another layer of illegality to the war on terror.
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Handling Hamas
: Rather than undermine Hamas, the Bush Administration should accept the results of the Palestinian election and pursue a policy of cautious engagement.
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Leadership 101
: The lesson in Harvard president Lawrence Summers's sudden demise is that his brand of neoliberalism works better on blackboards than in the real world.
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Taking Liberties
Tortured Exceptionalism
David Cole : Despite a recent federal district court ruling, the prohibition on torture knows no geographical boundaries and applies to all, no matter what passport they hold--even Americans.
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The March of Progress
Norman Mailer : A comparative list of how our cultural life has changed in the progression from the modern age to the postmodern.
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Challenging Musharraf
Graham Usher : Massive protests over the Muhammad cartoons add to the growing sense that Pakistani President-General Pervez Musharraf is losing control.
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He's Got a Little List
Richard Lingeman : The Nation is pleased that so many of its contributors are included on a right-wing list of the most dangerous academics in America.
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The Better Choice in Ohio
John Nichols : Sherrod Brown is the right candidate to be the Democratic Senate nominee in Ohio because he has the support of grassroots voters whose energy is essential to win.
Reviews
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book
Bad Will Hunting
Daniel Swift : Two new books on Shakespeare examine his shadowy life, his times and the origins of his imagination. A third explores whether the Bard of Avon was, in fact, Edward de Vere.
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Compromising Positions
David Bromwich : Richard Schickel's biography of Elia Kazan is a laudatory postscript to a life marked by social turmoil, political strife and artistic intensity.
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film
The Candidate
Stuart Klawans : James Carville peddles democracy in Bolivia in Our Brand Is Crisis, and anti-Nazi passions play out in Sophie Scholl: The Last Days.
Columns
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DEADLLINE POET
Cheney's Hunting Accident...
Calvin Trillin : It's going to take more than a polite request to make Cheney speak.
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BEAT THE DEVIL
Quail in War and Peace
Alexander Cockburn : Bobwhite quail have little to cheer about these days, their numbers depleted and habitats ravaged by hunters like the Vice President and his pals.
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BENEATH THE RADAR
Hard Times in the Big Easy
Gary Younge : The American economy cannot function without migrant labor. The paradox is the country's political culture cannot function without scapegoating immigrants.
Web
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Selling Human Rights in Russia
Michelle Risley : Russian human rights activist Gregory Shvedov examines how Vladimir Putin's tactics toward Chechnya align with George W. Bush's "global war on terror."
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CAFTA's Corpse Revived
Mark Engler : CAFTA, once presumed dead, is alive and functioning, thanks to White House political sorcery. But a backlash is looming in the United States and abroad.
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TruthDig
The Dubai Farce
Robert Scheer : What a farce: The Dubai Ports deal shows Bush is willing to trust the Arab-owned Dubai Ports to manage our harbors, even as he scapegoats them as culprits in his war on terror.
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Bush in India: Just Not Welcome
Arundhati Roy : Opposition to President Bush's visit to India was so intense that the only public space deemed acceptable for him to deliver a speech is a crumbling old fort that also houses the Delhi zoo.
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Where Are the Good Americans?
Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith : When the day comes for America to be judged for its war on terror and the human rights crimes that have been done in the name of its citizens, who can say they stood up and said no?
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Olympic Swagger
William Greider : Swagger was America's chosen posture at the Winter Olympics. Once again, sport imitated life: boasting got us nowhere at the Turin games or in the world.
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Howl
Free Trade Planet
Nicholas von Hoffman : The uproar over the Dubai Ports deal ignores the obvious consequences of the free trade that American politicians of both parties have pushed for decades. Like it or not, we have to deal with it.
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America's Online Censors
Rebecca MacKinnon : Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Cisco Systems are under fire from Congress for helping China censor and prosecute political dissidents. But a proposed law to guide technology companies doing business abroad raises troubling questions for Internet users everywhere.
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Bloggers at the Gate
Ari Melber : Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, a k a MyDD and Daily Kos, propose to revive the Democratic Party with a technology-driven "bloodless coup."
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The Boy Who Cried Wolf
William Greider : The Dubai Ports flap is bogus, but it's fun to see Democrats and Republicans frothing in unison. Hysteria has defined the Bush presidency; now the fearmonger-in-chief is getting a taste of his own tactics.
Cover by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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