The Liberation of Reverend Wright
Eudora Smith : The media's portrayal of Obama's former pastor as racist reflects an ignorance about the black church and its rhetorical traditions.
Henry Siegman on tough love for Israel, Ari Berman on Pennsylvania's Obamicans, Nathaniel Friedman on Mable John
Articles
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Bowling for Pennsylvania
Gaiutra Bahadur : Can Barack Obama get racially mixed communities in Pennsylvania's small towns to bowl together?
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Pennsylvania's 'Obamicans'
Ari Berman : Democratic activism and Obama's campaign have turned Doylestown, Pennsylvania, from solid red to purple--maybe even blue.
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Leaving Cheyenne Mountain
William J. Astore : Post-cold war America is looking a lot like the former Soviet Union.
Letters
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Letters
Our Readers : Diverse opinions on the Fed, the New Deal...and more about our choice of words.
Editorials & Comment
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Olympic Flame Out
: Boycotts of the Beijing Olympics are easy. What's harder is moving China towards meaningful progress on human rights.
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KBR's Rape Problem
Karen Houppert : Three women contractors raped in Iraq testify before a Senate committee: why has the Justice Department failed to prosecute crimes like these?
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Noted.
: Frederika Randall on Berlusconi's return, John Nichols on fast-tracking Colombia, Jayati Vora on Patrick Cockburn's Muqtada, Christopher Hayes on the new Israel lobby.
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Seeking Superdelegates
Ari Melber : Online activists are shining much-needed light on superdelegates, revealing who they are and how they'll vote--and asking why we need them.
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Tough Love for Israel
Henry Siegman : Another Middle East peace conference? Statesmen instead should have the moral and political courage to end the massive hoax the peace process has become.
Reviews
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Arms and the Right
Daniel Lazare : Two books dissect the contentious, confusing debate over gun control and the frequently misinterpreted Second Amendment.
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art
Every Photo an Archive
Susie Linfield : Peppered with moving, thought-provoking elements, the photographic exhibition "Archive Fever" is fascinating but essentially incoherent.
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Her Good Thing
Nathaniel Friedman : The versatile vocalist Mable John, now a novelist and minister, has come a long way since the 1960s soul era that made her (almost) famous.
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Back Talk: Nicholson Baker
Christine Smallwood : In the debut of a new biweekly series, the author of Human Smoke discusses pacifism and World War II.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
Stephen Hadley Says an Olympic Boycott Is a 'Cop-out' on the Tibet Issue Compared With Our 'Quiet Diplomacy' With China
Calvin Trillin : Just keep it coming.
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THE LIBERAL MEDIA
Motzira-Making on the Right
Eric Alterman : The politics of tenure at Barnard and beyond.
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BENEATH THE RADAR
Bitter Fruit in Pennsylvania
Gary Younge : If Obama's remarks on poor white voters were gauche, the responses they elicited have been galling.
Web
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Dreaming Obama in North Carolina
Tom Hayden : Conversations with historian John Hope Franklin and civil rights heroes about race, memory and the possibility of change.
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Protecting the Rights of Millionaires
Laura MacCleery : By equating money with free speech, is the Supreme Court defending the right of the rich to steal elections?
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Did Race Win the Race for Hillary?
Gaiutra Bahadur : Does living in mixed communities make people less or more vulnerable to campaigning that plays on ethnic and racial divisions?
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TruthDig
The Intemperate Candidate
Robert Scheer : Hillary Clinton's intemperate remarks about "obliterating" Iran cloud her primary win with questions about her judgment.
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Why Hillary Makes My Wife Scream
Tom Hayden : By trying to inflict maximum damage on Obama, she's threatening the Democratic Party's chances for the White House. Progressives need to intervene.
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The Fabulous Life of John McCain
Progressive Media USA : John McCain thinks America's financial crisis is just "psychological." If he can't understand our country's economic problems, how will he solve them?
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Youth Protests Outshine Olympic Torch
Cora Currier : Tibetan-led youth groups are proving the power of grassroots organizing with their highly effective Beijing Olympics protests.
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The Short of It
The Light Stuff
Melanie Rehak : The Kindle e-reader lightens your load, but can you curl up with it in bed?
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Southpaw
Can the Golden State Warriors Save Oakland?
Dave Zirin : The Warriors will miss this year's NBA playoffs, but they can still be winners by reaching out to at-risk youth in Oakland.
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Fox News' Obama Lies Are Spreading
Brave New Films : We'd expect Fox News to cover Barack Obama unfairly, but who knew the so-called "liberal media" would follow their lead so often?
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Fiction
Ceremonies of the Strange
Gary Phillips : In this week's episode of our political novella, Congresswoman Kang finds the trail to the truth is more crooked than straight.
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Rehabilitation, Resurrected
David Cole : This year nearly 700,000 inmates in US prisons will be granted their freedom. And in a rare act of bipartisanship, a new law provides millions to rehabilitate them.
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Journalists Slam ABC Debate Tactics
In an open letter to ABC News, a group of journalists and media analysts condemns the network's poor handling of the latest Clinton/Obama faceoff.
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Sustainable Punk
A New York skateboard manufacturer is creating green-collar jobs.
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Remembering Virginia Tech
"It really does bother me because I still understand I could have been killed so easy, and there is no explanation why I wasn't."
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