The Editors parse police violence in LA, Alexander Cockburn considers climate change, Gene Seymour analyzes Philip K. Dick.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Morality Gets a Massage
: Randall Tobias isn't the first abstinence czar to run afoul of the moral agenda he promoted. It's time Congress stopped this dangerous crusade.
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Invisible America
Patricia J. Williams : Fifty-three years after Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court will rule on two cases that will decide the future of school integration.
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Laboring for Edwards
Marc Cooper : John Edwards is meticulously laying the groundwork to become the candidate of organized labor, insisting prosperity can expand only if unionization expands.
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France à Droite
André Schiffrin : Under Sarkozy, France will lose much égalité and fraternité. Let's hope liberté is not diminished as well.
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Studs Terkel, Listener
Calvin Trillin : In celebration of Studs Terkel's 95th birthday last year, the Nation's Deadline Poet paid tribute.
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MacArthur Park
: Advocates pushing for reform and immigrants clamoring for justice in the streets will not forget the recent violence in Los Angeles.
Reviews
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At a Loss for Words
Michael Anderson : Ralph Ellison was eager to be counted in any political cause--except those surrounding race.
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The Dread Zone
John Leonard : John Leonard, noted critic and former literary editor of The Nation, died Wednesay at 69. This review of Don DeLillo's Falling Man was one of his last pieces published in the magazine.
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The Brown Decades
Rachel Cohen : In an engaging new memoir, Carolyn Brown recollects her work with modern dance legends Merce Cunningham and John Cage.
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Among the Disbelievers
Daniel Lazare : In their rush to throw out God, atheist writers appear to have given little thought to what should replace Him.
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The Wharton School
Brenda Wineapple : A new biography describes how Edith Wharton transformed her obsessions into stories of loss, regret and entrapment.
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The New Face of Warfare
Fatin Abbas : Child soldiering has become a defining feature of modern warfare. And the United States has been all too complicit in the trend.
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The Imaginary Jew
William Deresiewicz : Two new novels, by Michael Chabon and Nathan Englander, recharge the modern Jewish experience with a sense of the exotic.
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Clowns With Kalashnikovs
James Miller : In his memoir, Régis Debray describes the evolution of his politics from his early days as a revolutionary to his later work advising the nominally socialist François Mitterrand.
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The Virtual Realist
Gene Seymour : Philip K. Dick has become the most influential and prophetic of late-twentieth-century science fiction writers.
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Night on Earth
Michael Wood : After Dark, Haruki Murakami's edgy new novel, describes how the lives of a group of strangers intersect over the course of one night.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
On Three Out of the Ten Republican Presidential Candidates Stating That They Don't Believe in Evolution
Calvin Trillin : The Big Bang is something else entirely.
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BEAT THE DEVIL
Who Are the Merchants of Fear?
Alexander Cockburn : A contrarian view on climate change.
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SUBJECT TO DEBATE
'Democracy' Is Hell
Katha Pollitt : In a gruesome marriage of technology and medieval barbarity, an Internet video records the stoning death of a 17-year-old Kurdish girl. Welcome to the new Iraq.
Web
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Agent of Intolerance
Max Blumenthal : Jerry Falwell is best known for crusading against abortion and homosexuality. But early on, he skillfully used race to galvanize the Christian right.
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Misjudging Women
Jessica Arons : In Gonzalez v. Carhart, Justice Anthony Kennedy has utterly changed the course of abortion jurisprudence.
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Howl
The Iraq Information Crackdown
Nicholas von Hoffman : The Iraqi government bans news footage of street carnage and the Pentagon blocks soldiers' access to YouTube and MySpace. Can we assume from this that the surge is going badly?
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TruthDig
Iran Nukes Call Bush's Bluff
Robert Scheer : Tehran's religious fanatics move closer to wreaking nuclear havoc, and what can Bush do about it? Nothing.
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television
The Simpsons Hit 400
Simon Maxwell Apter : Over eighteen seasons and three presidential eras, The Simpsons has paid badly animated homage to all that sucks in America.
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Broadband Redlining Targets Rural America
Steve Early : Will rural America become roadkill on the information superhighway?
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The Price of a Life
Tom Engelhardt : Sure, the US government values the lives of innocents killed in combat. Just how much depends on whether they died in New York, Afghanistan or Iraq.
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While We Slept
Stanley I. Kutler : A new book on the history of Western complicity in Iraq takes an unsparing look at how the first Bush and Clinton administrations set the stage for disaster.
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Outsourcing the War
Jeremy Scahill : Testimony to Congress on the impact of private military contractors in Iraq.
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Immigrants Push Western Union to Share the Wealth
Gabriel Thompson : Outraged at the 17 percent fees they are charged on money they wire home, immigrant workers are pressuring Western Union to reinvest the profits.
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film
Spider-Man 3: Third Time's (Not) the Charm
Stuart Klawans : Sam Raimi has loaded so many big ideas into Spider-Man 3, they drag this morality-soaked bag of kittens right down to the river's bottom.
Cover art by Doug Chayka; design: Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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