Lamont vs. Lieberman, Round 2
Bruce Shapiro : Lamont now lags behind Lieberman, but the Connecticut electorate is so volatile that the outcome is far from certain.
Gideon Lewis-Kraus reviews The Lost, Sasha Abramsky plumbs the moral imperative of the minimum wage, Stuart Klawans explores the New York Film Festival.
Articles
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SNAP!
Sam Graham-Felsen : A unique student-run organization is making real strides mobilizing progressive voters for victory in the long haul.
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Guardian of the Ballot Box
Andrew Gumbel : Ion Sancho, an election supervisor in Florida, is dedicated to creating a fair and accurate voting system. But his passion has nearly cost him his job.
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The Moral Minimum
Sasha Abramsky : As the lagging minimum wage is being turned into a moral issue instead of an economic one, states are beginning to act where the federal government has not.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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The War and the Election
: Ending the Iraq War is the most pressing issue facing America today.
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Downsized but Not Out
Barbara Ehrenreich & Tamara Draut : United Professionals, a new organization for college-educated workers at risk in a global economy, is joining the movement for economic justice.
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Rich's Stealth Campaign
Peter Schrag : Howard Rich is pouring big money into leveraging our electoral system to serve his libertarian agenda.
Reviews
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music
A Rebel in Defense of Tradition
David Schiff : As composer Steve Reich turns 70, he is winning recognition from the classical establishment for the creativity and power ever-present in his music.
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book
Death in the Family
Gideon Lewis-Kraus : Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost represents one man's search to find the truth about himself, his family and the Holocaust.
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film
The Queen Is Dead
Stuart Klawans : Reviews from the New York Film Festival, including Marie Antoinette, Climate, 49 Up and more.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
A Short History of 'Cut and Run,' Using the George W. Bush Definition
Calvin Trillin : From 'Nam to Lebanon, the Gulf War and, um, Texas.
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BEAT THE DEVIL
The Myth of Microloans
Alexander Cockburn : Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus has helped a lot of poor women, but the basic problem in developing countries is landlessness. A $130 microloan won't solve that problem.
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SUBJECT TO DEBATE
Show Him the Money
Katha Pollitt : Diversity can be cringe-making, arbitrary, insincere and sappy. But take it away and you won't get more equality--you'll only get more privilege.
Web
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Southpaw
Baseball in the Ashes
Dave Zirin : The last time the Detroit Tigers faced the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series, the Motor City was literally aflame. What's evident this time is that the city never rose from the ashes.
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Weldon's Wild Ride
Ari Berman : The wheels are falling off Curt Weldon's electoral wagon, as the wacky Pennsylvania Republican finds himself mired in a criminal investigation.
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Election Night From Hell
David W. Moore : As Fox News marks its tenth birthday, recall the fateful night in November 2000 that its election desk broke all the rules reporting the election of George W. Bush. Will Fox do it again this year?
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TruthDig
Enron's Enablers
Robert Scheer : Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling would have remained small time crooks were it not for the energy industry deregulation measures they effectively purchased from Bush I and II.
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Playing Politics at School
Hasdai Westbrook : Casting himself as tough on school crime as election day nears, Kentucky Republican Representative Geoff Davis is pushing a measure that puts the constitutional right of students at risk.
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Mars Rover Beginning To Hate Mars
The unmanned vehicle is "bored out of its mind."
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Howl
Useful Idiots
Nicholas von Hoffman : Why did America's so-called liberal media find it so easy to support Bush's Iraq disaster? You won't find answers in the US media: Try The London Review of Books.
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The Greenest Campus: The College of the Atlantic goes emissions neutral.
The College of the Atlantic goes emissions neutral.
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SAT-isfactory: The SAT is our best option, for now.
The SAT is our best option, for now.
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YAF 'Immigrants' Catch Heat: Race-baiting conservatives rile campus activists.
Race-baiting conservatives rile campus activists.
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The Standardized Pest: Is it time to drop the SATs?
Is it time to drop the SATs?
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Pat Tillman's Legacy
As the elections approach, a former soldier, grieving the friendly-fire death of his brother in combat, asks: How has the most respected country in the world become so irrational, belligerent, feared and distrusted?
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Reproductive Rights on the Line in South Dakota
Kate Michelman : An initiative that seeks to overturn South Dakota's draconian ban on abortion will have implications in states across the country.
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What's Wrong With this Picture?
Kristal Brent Zook : FCC commissioners heard testimony in New York this week about how media consolidation stifles diversity, grassroots community and the creativity of independent musicians and artists.
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TruthDig
Pat Tillman's Legacy
Kevin Tillman : As the elections approach, a former soldier, grieving the friendly-fire death of his brother in combat, asks: How has the most respected country in the world become so irrational, belligerent, feared and distrusted?
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Moral Compass
Soldiers of Conscience
Staughton Lynd : A peace activist argues that if soldiers like Lieut. Ehren Watada succeed in convincing the courts that they have a right to refuse to fight in unjust and illegal wars, the world will be a different place.
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Indonesian Mother Sews Halloween Costumes For 60,000 Children
"I try to put a little extra love in each seam I stitch, or epoxy, or hot-glue, or heat-seal," said factory worker Weninng Panggi.
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