Too Hot for New York
Philip Weiss : My Name Is Rachel Corrie was a big hit in London, but the New York Theatre Workshop backed off from producing the play. Why is it so hard for Americans to have a healthy debate about Palestinian human rights?
Michael T. Klare parses the dangers of Bush's nuclear deal with India, Slavenka Drakulic considers the death of Milosevic, Eyal Press looks at justice for the poor in Montana.
Articles
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Showdown on Immigration
Marc Cooper : After twenty years of inaction, the US Senate is considering sweeping immigration reform. But a push for quick action and the November elections may thwart the current bipartisan consensus.
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Keeping Gideon's Promise
Eyal Press : Montana is setting the stage for other states in its push to improve legal representation for the poor and to address the lack of competent public attorneys.
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Dueling Over Delphi
David Moberg : When Delphi declared bankruptcy, cutting workers' wages, pensions and healthcare, auto unions in Indiana drew the line. Now they are prepared to strike or take work-to-rule actions.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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An American Inquisition?
: The case of an architect who lost lucrative contracts because of his interest in the Palestinian cause underscores how Americans are becoming inured to enforced patriotism and ideological litmus tests.
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Taking Liberties
Patriot Act Post-Mortem
David Cole : The failure of a complaisant, Republican-controlled Congress to enact meaningful changes to the Patriot Act means that midterm elections are the only true path to reform.
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Ending Nonproliferation
Michael T. Klare : President Bush's dangerous deal to deliver nuclear technology to India is a significant breach of the nonproliferation treaty and will make nuclear war more likely.
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Judging Milosevic
Slavenka Drakulic : Slobodan Milosevic died without a definitive judgment of his responsibility for war and crimes against humanity. Now others will judge him, precisely what he wanted to avoid.
Reviews
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book
Three Who Made a Revolution
Rebecca Solnit : Rachel Carson, Betty Friedan and Jane Jacobs opened vast new possibilities for social transformation by writing about widespread attacks on nature, women and the poor.
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book
Crowds and Power
Steve Fraser : In Death in the Haymarket James Green uses the story of the Haymarket riot to expose the hopes and fears of nineteenth-century America, a nation living on the knife-edge of social catastrophe.
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Experimental Art
Joshua Foer : Alan Lightman makes scientists into artists in his new book The Discoveries, promoting original journal articles as "the great novels and symphonies of science."
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
George W. Bush's Approach to Maintaining Constitutional Rule in a Democracy Through a Series of Checks and Balances
Calvin Trillin : Bush's approach to maintaining control: Can you say Caine Mutiny?
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DIARY OF A MAD LAW PROFESSOR
Truth or Consequences
Patricia J. Williams : OK, kids: With conservatives on the hunt for dangerous left-wing academics, take this SAT (Save America from Treachery) test. See if you can tell the difference between a terrorist and a truth-teller. First prize: A three-day getaway in Baghdad. Fail and go to jail.
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THE LIBERAL MEDIA
Iraq: The Democrats' Dilemma
Eric Alterman : With Bush's popularity dropping and Iraq in chaos, Democrats must provide clear leadership without making themselves targets of political assassination by the right. How can they do that when the master story in the media depicts a party in disarray?
Web
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Column Left
Comeuppance in Cleveland
Robert Scheer : One tough question from an elderly gentleman in Cleveland punctured the President's pretensions about the reasons for launching the disastrous Iraq war.
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When Your Banker Takes Charge of Your Life
Nicholas von Hoffman : A flood of reader mail responding to last week's column on the impact of rising levels of student debt shows what happens when your banker takes charge of your life.
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Erasing Whiteness
Silja J.A. Talvi : If women expect to shed the cruel and calculating artifice of race in our lifetimes, we must contribute to the emerging generation of literature that deconstructs racial categories.
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Learning to Love the Bomb
William Greider : Could the world learn to live with a nuclear Iran? A new power equation of nuclear proliferation is emerging to challenge the Bush Administration's bluster on the subject.
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The Normalcy of Fear
Rachel Corbett & Anja Tranovich : A delegation of Iraqi women is traveling the country in an effort to convey the grim realities of the US occupation.
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In the Path of a Storm, Vets Protest a War
Christian Parenti : Veterans of Iraq and Vietnam marched from Mobile to New Orleans to mark the third anniversary of the Iraq War, and to call attention to the Bush Administratrion's culture of incompentence, inhumanity and greed that has devastated Iraq and America's Gulf Coast.
Cover by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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