Rudy's Dirty Money
Ari Berman : A closer look at the Texas energy interests fueling the former New York mayor's presidential campaign.
The Editors on five years of war, Patricia J. Williams on art and politics, David Schiff on listening to the 20th century.
Articles
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Rudy's Bird of Prey
Ari Berman : Giuliani's conservative kingmaker knows all about the ugly side of Third World debt. He invented it.
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Turkey's Finest Hour?
Richard Falk : The sick man of Europe gets a jolt of life, but will it last?
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Taking Celebrity Seriously
Stephen Duncombe : The Paris Principle: politics are sooo hot.
Letters
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Letters
Our Readers : Readers pick a few nits about Katha Pollitt's column on poverty and heap praise on Bob Moser's reporting about the "Ditch Mitch" McConnell movement in Kentucky.
Editorials & Comment
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Pre-empt Preventive War
: The path back to sanity begins by repealing the Kyl-Lieberman amendment and prohibiting military action in Iran without Congressional approval.
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The China Syndrome
Andrew Ross : Worried about toxic toys from China? Worry, too, about Chinese workers exposed to the poisons.
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Noted.
: Giuliani in Philadelphia, an obituary for Haldar Abdel-Shafi, an apology from Jon Stewart and more.
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Iraq: The Other Surge
Robert Dreyfuss : Across the political spectrum in Iraq, a nationalistic bloc is emerging to challenge the Kurdish and Shiite separatists who have held sway under US tutelage.
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Her McGovern Moment
John Nichols : Hillary Clinton has recognized the value of courting antiwar voters.
Reviews
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book
Sound Check
David Schiff : The history of twentieth-century music charts the rise of modern masters like Duke Ellington and John Adams.
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Apocalypse Now?
Stephen Holmes : According to Chalmers Johnson, Bush's imperial presidency may be the final chapter in the collapse of American democracy.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
On Larry Craig's Decision to Serve Out His Term in the Senate
Calvin Trillin : The GOP learns a thing or two about what it means to be gay.
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DIARY OF A MAD LAW PROFESSOR
Strange Culture
Patricia J. Williams : If the stuff of life is corporatized, does art about it become a form of interference in business?
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Burns's War: What Is It Good For?
Eric Alterman : An increasingly bookless universe has become the wasteland so many have feared. In a perfect world, we'd have more Ken Burnses expressing a multiplicity of views.
Web
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Does the 'T' Stand Alone?
Christopher Lisotta : As a gay rights bill moved through Congress, some prominent Democrats tried to exclude protections for transgenders. The LGBT community revolted.
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TruthDig
Listen to the Troops
Robert Scheer : As Iraq veterans speak out against a war in shambles, leading Democrats are wavering about quickly removing our troops from this deepening quagmire.
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Latina America Lavishly Comes of Age
Lakshmi Chaudhry : The quinceañera has become a rite of passage for even the poorest Latina teens, another example of our most treasured rites debased at the cash register.
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Fired Up
Sick Kids' Laugh Riot
Annabelle Gurwitch : Dear Congressional Democrats: Here's a funny story about what it's like to have a really sick kid, even if you do have insurance.
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Terry McMillan vs. Ghetto Lit
Amy Alexander : Driven by a tabloid episode from her own marriage, the novelist joins the debate over the mass marketing of trashy books to young black readers.
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Southpaw
The Fall of Marion Jones, Inc.
Dave Zirin : The sports establishment is shocked, shocked at her steroid-fueled Olympic wins. But didn't they also play a role?
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music
What's Radiohead Worth?
Peter C. Baker : The British rockers stick a fork in the recording industry by offering downloads of a new album for whatever fans want to pay. Oh, the anguish.
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Questions for Michael Mukasey
Elizabeth Holtzman, Nan Aron, Stephen Gillers, Victor Navasky and others quiz the Attorney General nominee on torture, the Constitution and the fate of Alberto Gonzales.
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The Activists of Jena Six
It's not just a story about six black teenagers. It's the reawakening of a movement.
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Young People All Over the World Call for a Free Burma
On the International Day of Action, marches and rallies were held in twenty-seven countries. And it all started because of Facebook.
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A New Latino Agenda
Roberto Lovato : Latino voters will go to the polls in 2008 with a hemispheric vision, a new sense of power and concerned about Iraq, immigration and the environment.
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The New American Imperium
Stanley I. Kutler : The Democrats appear to be anti-Iraq War. But they surely are not acting like opponents of imperial overreach.
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Watada's Double Jeopardy
Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith : A legal drama is unfolding in Washington State over whether an Army officer who refuses to serve in Iraq has the same Constitutional rights as the rest of us.
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With Friends Like Turkey...
Nicole Vartanian : As Turkey ramps up its outrage against a House committee vote to affirm the Armenian genocide, is anyone applauding our lawmakers' act of moral courage?
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Which Climate Bill on Capitol Hill?
Mark Hertsgaard : As scenarios on the impact of global warming worsen, Senate Democrats are poised to abandon a realistic bill and support a deeply flawed measure that doesn't solve the problem.
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The Political Doris Lessing
Dan Kellum : The winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature is every bit as political as her predecessors.
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Iraqis Sue Blackwater for Baghdad Killings
Jeremy Scahill : Blackwater USA now faces wrongful death suits in US court brought by survivors of three Iraqi civilians killed in the September 16 Baghdad shootings.
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Calling Blackwater to Account
Jeremy Scahill : Susan Burke of the Center for Constitutional Rights and Nation correspondent Jeremy Scahill explain details of a lawsuit against Blackwater USA filed in connection with a Baghdad shooting. Video courtesy of Democracy Now.
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Howl
Whose Genocide Counts?
Nicholas von Hoffman : The House Foreign Affairs Committee bravely declares the 1915 slaughter of Armenians in Turkey genocide. Why not put the same label on themselves, for their role in the Iraq catastrophe?
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Malcolm Suber: Good for New Orleans
Adolph Reed Jr. : A longtime activist, running in a special City Council election, is just what New Orleans needs.
Cover art by Steve Brodner, design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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