The Obama Effect
Gary Younge : Have the dreams of the civil rights movement been realized or deferred?
John Nichols on God and the GOP, Henry Siegman on Israel and the Palestinians, Tony Eprile on Michael Ondaatje.
Articles
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Forum: What GWOT Has Wrought
: George W. Bush's "global war against terror" unleashed a wave of repression felt around the globe. Reports from Egypt, El Salvador, the Philippines, Thailand and Pakistan.
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GWOT: Egypt
Negar Azimi : America's "war on terror" has strengthened Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's stranglehold on civil liberties.
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GWOT: El Salvador
Wes Enzinna : A new anti-terrorism law gives El Salvador carte blanche to stifle dissent.
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GWOT: The Philippines
Luis H. Francia : Since 9/11 the Philippines have seen an explosion of political killings.
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GWOT: Pakistan
Shahan Mufti : As the Taliban gains strength, a nascent democracy in Pakistan withers.
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GWOT: Thailand
Noy Thrupkaew : Fear of terrorism has enabled Thailand's military dictatorship.
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Waiting for Godot in a Wasteland
Billy Sothern : The most devastated neighborhood in America makes an ideal backdrop for a morally ambiguous play about abandonment.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Subprime Politics
: Keep people in their homes and start re-regulating the banking industry to end the conflicts of interest that fueled the debacle.
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Crime and Cover-Up
: The CIA tapes' destruction and violation of anti-torture statutes they recorded require a special prosecutor.
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Playing the God Card
John Nichols : It's not Romney's Mormon faith that threatens the core values of a secular nation. It's Huckabee's messianic candidacy.
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Noted.
: The Drum Major Institute talks politics with big-city mayors; what do we say when we talk about torture?
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Rights of Passage
Eyal Press : How can momentum be restored to the struggle for human rights? Begin by drawing the world's religions into the conversation.
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Post-Annapolis Pitfalls
Henry Siegman : Washington must abandon the fantasy that an Israeli-Palestinian agreement can be reached in the face of deep divisions between Fatah and Hamas, which the United States and Israel have fostered.
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Locked Up in Limbo
Laura Mansnerus : In California, sex offenders face the specter of incarceration without end.
Reviews
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art
Tilted Ash
Arthur C. Danto : A retrospective exhibition of Martin Puryear's sculptures reinvents MoMA's signature atrium space as a site for spiritual longing.
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book
Lippmann and the News
Michael Schudson : In the early 1900s Walter Lippman laid the groundrules for public debate in America. Have the US media followed his prescriptions?
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Memorable Gestures
Tony Eprile : Michael Ondaatje shows off his trademark narrative tricks in his new novel Divisadero, but the magic is wearing thin.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
George Bush, Upon Hearing That the Iranians Abandoned Their Nuclear Weapons Program in 2003
Calvin Trillin : All fired up and nowhere to go.
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BEAT THE DEVIL
Congress to CIA Torturers: 'If Only You'd Told Us'
Alexander Cockburn : The agency's secret destruction of tapes is a parable of the futility of oversight.
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SUBJECT TO DEBATE
Ho-Ho-Holiday Donations, 2007 Edition
Katha Pollitt : Multiply your good fortune by giving generously to these progressive organizations and charities.
Web
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A Hoax Exposed at Princeton
Max Blumenthal : When a strait-laced Princeton student claimed he was attacked by liberal thugs, the conservative establishment rallied around him--until it turned out to be a lie.
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book
The Secret Library of Hope
Rebecca Solnit : Twelve authors on war and peace, dissent, the environment and the empowerment of the poor provide inspiration to transform the world in 2008.
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Iowa Caucus Ruckus
The debate over whether students should vote in Iowa is nothing new.
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Southpaw
The Mitchell Report Is a Fraud
Dave Zirin : George Mitchell's long-awaited report on steroids in baseball slanders players, gives owners a pass and never acknowledges its author's conflicts of interest.
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Campaign in the City: Boston Mayor Tom Menino
VideoNation : "Because Washington has no urban agenda, the cities in this country are doing poorly. Unemployment is up. Faith in the economy has gone down. Crime has gone up."
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Campaign in the City: Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy
VideoNation : "Our cities across this country are proud. They have a great history. But like a boxer, they've taken one knee, and they have to bring themselves back."
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Campaign in the City: Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon
VideoNation & MayorTV : "I want to see one of the candidates come up with a comprehensive plan to eliminate the tide of drugs coming into our country. I mean, we have wars here in our city."
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Campaign in the City: Miami Mayor Manny Diaz
VideoNation : "The media and pollsters don't focus on urban issues. They focus on the war, abortion, gay rights -- things that, quite frankly, for those of us in the trenches, are not exactly the hot button issues."
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Campaign in the City: Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin
VideoNation : "Water is my top 10 priorities. Or top 20"
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Campaign in the City: Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper
VideoNation : "The Rocky mountains are a place where people come together and put aside partisan issues to solve problems. Being able to talk about those pragmatic solutions is going to be of great benefit to the entire country."
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Campaign in the City: Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak
VideoNation : "I hope when the presidential candidates talk about cities, they stop thinking about us as basketcases, and think instead of the potential of cities to turn this country around."
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Campaign in the City: Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown
VideoNation & MayorTV : "While presidential candidates are raising substantial amounts of money in cities, they are spending it in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina ... It disproportionately puts the focus on [rural] areas of the country where the majority of our citizenry do not live."
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Campaign in the City: Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson
VideoNation & MayorTV : "Republicans and Democrats alike, among mayors in this country, have been very, very upset and concerned about the disregard for cities by this administration."
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USDA Bets the Farm on Animal ID Program
David E. Gumpert & William Pentland : A plan to implant farm animals with electronic tracking tags gives corporate agriculture a monopoly on the future of food, and it has sparked political backlash in rural America.
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Campaign in the City: Mayors on the Issues
VideoNation & MayorTV : Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown in the fourth in a series of conversations on the issues at stake for America's cities in Campaign 08.
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Farmworkers and Students Take On Burger King
Michael Gould-Wartofsky : The fast-food giant's insistence on paying poverty wages to tomato pickers could backfire, as student activists' campaign for fair food cuts into their business.
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Al Jazeera Goes Mainstream
Ned Lamont : The Arabic and English satellite broadcasts are giving voice to Arabs who challenge their governments, and ours.
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Campaign in the City: LA Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa
VideoNation & MayorTV : "The federal government talks a good game about homeland security. And yet cities, like Los Angeles, are constantly struggling to get the resources we need to provide that security."
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Permalancers, Unite!
Anya Kamenetz : Freelancers staged a walkout at Viacom this week, instigating one of the most unlikely and successful labor campaigns in recent memory.
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Act Now: Save New Orleans Public Housing
In New Orleans, an intergenerational coalition of activists is fighting to stop the demolition of 4,500 public housing units.
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Democrats and Journalists Should Not Advocate Young Voter Disenfranchisement
How student and young blogger activism took on Clinton, Dodd, Richardson and Biden's campaigns--in less than 24 hours--to protect student voting rights.
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Who Owns Whom? Social Networking's Corporate Roots
Politicians are invading online space like never before in hopes of reaching a new generation of voters. But who really gains from interactive democracy?
Cover by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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