The New SDS
Christopher Phelps : Can the new Students for a Democratic Society avoid the internal conflicts that plagued the original group?
The Editors measure the impact of Congress's Iraq exit strategies, Graham Usher explores Pakistan's instability, Arthur C. Danto sheds light on Tintoretto.
Articles
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Obama's Community Roots
David Moberg : Barack Obama's political vision grew out of his early experiences as a community organizer in Chicago.
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Pakistan's Shaky Dictatorship
Graham Usher : Only reform can halt the growth of violent Islamization in Pakistan, which threatens to topple the current government.
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John Amaechi's Timeout
Dave Zirin : The openly gay former NBA star speaks eloquently against homophobia, the war in Iraq and racism.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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A Wider Corruption
: The US Attorneys scandal sheds light on a broader pattern of transforming government agencies into a permanent GOP patronage machine.
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A Turning Point
: By voting to set a timetable to withdraw from Iraq, the House and Senate are finally at the table, challenging Bush's war-making.
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Attorneygate in Guam
Ari Berman : Before there was Attorneygate, there was the 2002 firing of a US attorney in Guam engaged in a prosecution of Jack Abramoff. Anyone see a pattern here?
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Betting on Healthcare
Marc Cooper : At a union-sponsored forum in Las Vegas, John Edwards presented a real healthcare plan, but Hillary Clinton captured the crowd.
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Stockman's Folly
William Greider : After all these years, will Reagan's budget chief go to jail for cooking the books?
Reviews
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On the Genealogy of Morals
Samuel Moyn : Inventing Human Rights traces the roots of humanitarian concern back to the eighteenth century. But there's a world of difference between then and now.
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A Free Man
Laurent Dubois : Madison Smartt Bell's new biography of Toussaint Louverture explores the complexities of the man who created modern Haiti.
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A Mannerist in Madrid
Arthur C. Danto : Jacopo Tintoretto outshines Michelangelo, but his work is rarely seen outside of Venice.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
What Congress Is Concluding About the Attorney General's Relationship With The Truth
Calvin Trillin : The truth gets whacked on Fredo's watch.
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BEAT THE DEVIL
That Was an Antiwar Vote?
Alexander Cockburn : The House Democratic leadership chooses merely to appear to oppose the war, while continuing to fund it.
Web
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Emerging Writers
Making Blogging Pay
Beccah Golubock Watson : As bloggers gain strength as the political voice of the left, how can they compete with well-funded mainstream media?
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Gitmo Justice
Aziz Huq : David Hicks pleads guilty and goes free, while the Supreme Court denies nearly 400 other terror suspects their day in court. This is justice?
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'Para-politics' Goes Bananas
Michael Evans : Chiquita Brands has been fined $25 million by the US Justice Department for funding a terrorist paramilitary group, but isn't that just the cost of doing business with Colombia?
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Howl
Rich Get Richer, Poor Get Powerless
Nicholas von Hoffman : The gap between rich and poor hasn't been this wide since the Depression.
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TruthDig
Leave Your Morals at the Border
Robert Scheer : A Supreme Court ruling turns a blind eye to torture and human rights violations, as long as they're done offshore.
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Emerging Writers
ACT UP's New Urgency
Emily Douglas : Twenty years after its founding, the AIDS activist group is expanding its mission to universal healthcare.
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Denial in the Desert
Mike Davis : Abrupt climate change is rapidly turning the American West into a desert. But a culture in denial continues rampant suburbanization, fueled by the delusion that our water supply is inexhaustible.
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Beirut in the Balance
Personal Voice: As another summer approaches with the memory of last year's Israeli-Lebanon war still fresh, young residents of Beirut struggle for survival.
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Body Language
Andrew Lam : A new "ethnic correctness" is taking hold among minorities that might reverse a rising trend among Asians and others to undergo plastic surgery to look more westernized.
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Open Letter to Ronald McDonald
Opinion: Young activists and immigrant farmworkers succeeded in stopping Taco Bell's abusive treatment of their workers. McDonald's is up next, warns a young organizer.
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Unhappy Meals
Immigrant farmworkers battle for workers' rights, escalate their campaign against McDonald's.
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Car Bombs: WMDs the Surge Can't Stop
Mike Davis : The favored weapon of the ill-armed and underfunded is the one weapon of mass destruction that the Bush Administration has totally ignored.
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The Sum of Our Fears
Christopher Hayes : The money we've wasted on unseen terrorists, nonexistent WMDs and phantom pedophiles could have been used to address any number of legitimate threats.
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