The Torture Election
Jonathan Schell : The GOP's one-party rule has created a constitutional crisis that threatens America's future. By pulling the right lever on November 7, voters can throw this party out of office.
Mark Hertsgaard examines the dangers of nuclear waste, Gary Younge deconstructs Obamarama, Ari Berman parses the Democratic ground game.
Articles
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A New-Model Ford
Bob Moser : Harold Ford has wooed and wowed white conservatives in Tennessee with a mash-up of star power, earthy eloquence and a contrarian right-wingery that has driven the GOP to take drastic measures.
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Bad Day in CA
Marc Cooper : While Democrats on the national level dream of a landslide, in California, the party is facing another electoral debacle.
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Ground Game '06
Ari Berman : Republicans are hoping voters will forget about Iraq, Bush and the GOP Congress. But these are the issues that will drive Democrats and independents to the polls.
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Driving Planned Parenthood
Jennifer Baumgardner : Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood's new president, leads an organization searching for new national strategies, as a crucial vote in South Dakota tests its grassroots clout.
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Immigrants Regroup
Roberto Lovato : This year will be remembered both for massive immigrants rights marches and for the Al Qaedization of immigrants.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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What Is at Stake
: November 7 is suddenly looking like a fateful election that could change the flow of politics in ways nobody anticipated.
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Return to Chelyabinsk
Mark Hertsgaard : A G-8 plan to ramp up nuclear energy is defended as a necessary response to global warming. But the nuclear waste it generates will hurt people and the planet.
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IRV, a Better Way
Krist Novoselic : Instant Runoff Voting will get a crucial test in four local elections on November 7.
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A Salute to Molly Ivins
Lewis Lapham : Her writing--sharp, satirical, infused with the spirit of skepticism--reminds us that dissent rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.
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Nation Notes
: The Nation Institute establishes the Spira-Lopez Journalism Internship for college students and graduates of Hispanic or Latino origin.
Reviews
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book
French Lessons
Sunil Khilnani : The history of twentieth-century France depicts a struggle between the republican ideal of a unitary state and the shifting concerns of a pluralistic society.
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book
The New World Order
Robin Blackburn : Two new books examine the diverse and ambitious alliances that led to the end of slavery in America.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
New White House Strategy on Iraq
Calvin Trillin : What passes now for West Wing policy is whatever will cover their collective derrieres.
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THE LIBERAL MEDIA
The End of Times?
Eric Alterman : Journalism's in crisis, crushed by Wall Street and tarnished by a failure of nerve. As newspapers die and fake news proliferates, who will provide reliable information vital to a functioning democracy?
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BENEATH THE RADAR
Obama: Black Like Me
Gary Younge : Barack Obama has fallen prey to the soft bigotry of unreasonable expectations from both the right and left.
Web
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Rick Santorum's Beastly Politics
Max Blumenthal : Dogged by a history of crude responses to abortion, euthanasia and gay marriage, Pennsylvania Republican Senator Rick Santorum is trailing his Democratic foe. But a cadre of influential Catholic conservatives are already crafting a post-Santorum, post-Bush strategy.
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TruthDig
What Bush Has Wrought
Robert Scheer : We are now led by a false warrior who acts the simpleton, while playing to his version of what Middle America wants. To stop the madness, on November 7 voters must soundly repudiate what Bush has wrought.
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GOP Throws All Financial Support Behind One Candidate
The National Republican Congressional Committee allocates its remaining $256 million cash-on-hand to an Arizona incumbent in the hopes of retaining at least one House seat.
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Howl
College Presidents High on the Hog
Nicholas von Hoffman : College presidents are living in baronial splendor, some with salaries, benefits and perks of $1 million or more. And you wonder why the cost of tuition is so high?
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Character Assassin
Max Blumenthal : Republican adman Scott Howell has racked up a startling Democratic body count with his signature hyperemotional style. Will his attack on Harold Ford Jr. succeed or backfire?
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Campus Informer
Students party with Bill Murray, toga-clad public apologies, and more news from schools across the country.
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College GOP Flames Out
Mocking animal rights, barbecue's grasp for attention goes up in smoke.
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Private Pensions, Public Good: Finding assistance for workers dedicated to assisting others
Finding assistance for workers dedicated to assisting others.
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(Save the) World's Fair: At DC.'s Green Festival, innovation blooms
At DC.'s Green Festival, innovation blooms.
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State of Denial
Stephen Glain : By denying a noted Islamic religious scholar entry to the United States because of his ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, the Bush Administration reveals its inability to deal with the realities of the Middle East.
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Capturing Compassion
Suzanne Charlé : Seeking to arouse America's compassion, five photojournalists have documented the suffering of terrorized refugees from Darfur in an exhibition that will travel to cities around the country.
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From Whitewater to Blackwater
Jeremy Scahill & Garrett Ordower : Blackwater USA has a new attorney to defend it against a wrongful death lawsuit by families of four contractors killed in Iraq: Kenneth Starr.
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Bush: Thousands of Registered Democrats Needed For 'Extremely Important' Mission
President Bush said Monday that members of the opposition party are the only ones who can make the November operation a success.
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film
Marie Antoinette, the Upspeak Version
Mark Steel : It doesn't matter that Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette is a dreadful film, but it is alarming that the past is increasingly seen as a place in which the most important thing of all is who's, like, famous.
Cover painting by Keith Hollingsworth, one of a series, acrylic and collage on canvas; cover design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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