Voices of a New Movimiento
Roberto Lovato : As they push for immigrants rights legislation--and brace for the inevitable backlash--a diverse array of emerging leaders have their eyes on a larger prize.
Barbara Garson ponders the consequences of pieing the President, Alexander Cockburn writes on failed hopes for Palestine, Stuart Klawans reviews A Prairie Home Companion and The Da Vinci Code.
Articles
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A Bronx Tale
Michelle García : Grassroots activists tap into the momentum of the immigrant rights movement to bring blacks and Latinos together on shared concerns.
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A Shared Vision
Salim Muwakkil : The vitality of the new Latino-led immigration movement could provide the spark to jolt the civil rights movement out of its complacency and create a shared notion of an imagined future.
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What They're Marching For
Saurav Sarkar : With or without a comprehensive immigration bill, a working-class immigrant Latino movement is emerging--allied with progressive groups--that could reverse a tide of xenophobia and make significant gains.
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Letter From Bolivia: Morales Moves
Christian Parenti : Evo Morales and his Movement Toward Socialism party face two formidable foes: a far left discontented with neoliberalism and a combative rancher-based right wing.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Enron Rules Still Apply
: True reform in the wake of the Enron scandal means tightening the standards of corporate law so that executives who abuse their power are held accountable for their crimes.
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Why Haditha Matters
: The Haditha massacre cannot be blamed solely on soldiers gone berserk. The Marine Corps cover-up suggests that moral damage from the Iraq War has affected more than a single debased unit.
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Cellmates' Reunion
Barbara Garson : Desperate for medical care, an ailing granny pies the President and finds a soft bed in a country club prison. It's enough to make you go out and commit a crime.
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All DeLay's Children
Ari Berman : Tom DeLay has left Congress, but his legacy lives on in the work of five disciples.
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'Tester Time' in Montana
John Nichols : John Tester's populist politics and country style make him the perfect candidate to unseat Senator Conrad Burns. Next step is for the progressive Montana farmer to win the June 6 primary.
Reviews
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book
The Missionary Position
Laila Lalami : Like radical Islamists and American interventionists, Ayaan Hirsi Ali's The Caged Virgin and Irshad Manji's The Trouble With Islam Today express great concern for Muslim women. But the trouble is not necessarily with Islam.
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film
Local Hero
Stuart Klawans : Reviews of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, A Prairie Home Companion and The Da Vinci Code.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
Bush Is Asked Again If He Can Recall Any Mistakes
Calvin Trillin : A contrite Commander in Chief will watch his words from here on.
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BEAT THE DEVIL
Palestine: It's All Over
Alexander Cockburn : Israel's strategy in 1948 continues today: Make life so awful for Palestinians that most will depart, leaving a few bankrupt ghettos as memorials to the hopes for a Palestinian state.
Web
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Henry Paulson's Treasury
Nomi Prins : Goldman Sachs chairman and CEO Henry Paulson faces ethical, political and economic challenges if confirmed as Bush's latest Treasury Secretary.
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TruthDig
Stooges for the Establishment
Robert Scheer : Five unrepentant media giants, complicit in the hidden agendas of government leakers, now pay the price for their unethical reporting on Wen Ho Lee.
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Howl
As Others See Us
Nicholas von Hoffman : When a group of international journalists visited a small town in Maine, they made it clear that America's aggression in Iraq, its greed and the advance of pop culture are leading onetime allies to desert us.
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P-Funk Politics
Ned Sublette : As hurricane season began in earnest, Ray Nagin, who famously declared New Orleans a "chocolate city," began his second term as mayor. What better time to appreciate the way George Clinton, America's should-be poet laureate, has funked up politics?
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Southpaw
The Rockies Pitch Religion
Dave Zirin : The Colorado Rockies recruit Christian players and claim God is at work on their game. Major League Baseball woos evangelicals with special "Faith Days at the Park." Something's going on here, but it has nothing to do with God.
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Campus Breakthrough on Sweatshop Labor
Peter Dreier & Richard Appelbaum : The University of California has thrown its weight behind an antisweatshop initiative on campus logowear, proof that conscientious consumers can humanize the forces of global capitalism.
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