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August 13, 2007 Issue

David Corn on Fred Thompson, neocon; Tracy Tullis on saving urban rivers; Stuart Klawans reviews The Devil Came on Horseback.

Cover art by: Cover design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels

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Editorial

Red Zone, Green Zone

Pundits speculate the US can win stability if not victory in Iraq, but beyond the philosophical Green Zone they inhabit, life becomes ever more desperate for Iraqi civilians.

The New Bipartisan Capitalism

A new study addressing the plight the American worker in a global economy tries to solve economic inequity through tax policy rather than systemic change. A much broader vision is ...

A Man Who Gets His Way

A veteran newsman recalls Rupert Murdoch. Despite his promises to protect editorial integrity of the Wall Street Journal, don't expect him to get a soul transplant any time ...

A Bronx Tale

From Providence to Los Angeles and even the Bronx, urban rivers that were polluted and even paved over are being restored.

Dangerous Privilege

We need a law to define and limit the President's claim of executive privilege, and should set a process for Congress to overcome it.

Impeachable Offenses

The burgeoning movement to impeach Bush and Cheney is a rational response at a time when 80 percent of Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction.

Column

The Bloatocrats

The New York Times turns a spotlight on the super-rich who veil their affluence in assertions of the good that they do. It makes Gordon Gekko's naked greed look good.

Letters

Feature

Data-Mining Our Liberties

Despite blistering criticism of warrantless surveillance, the Bush Administration rammed a law through Congress that authorizes spying on our calls and e-mails. How did they get aw...

Learning to Love the Farm Bill

The bipartisan farm bill making its way through Congress offers real hope to feed the hungry at home and abroad and improve nutrition for poor kids. But it faces a likely president...

At YearlyKos, Netroots Come of Age

Hillary filibustered them, Obama wooed them, Edwards took them seriously. Now that the Democratic establishment is paying heed, can the netroots remain true to their egalitarian ro...

Snakes on a Cruise!

Who's on this ship? A lot of nice, intelligent people, a few 9/11 conspiracists, a self-righteous blowhard or two and an undercover reporter for the New York Times.

The Stuff of Heartbreak

When an ardently progressive magazine sponsors a cruise through the fragile waters off the coast of Alaska, the environmental, economic and human realities are ripe for contemplati...

President Rudy

How much worse a president would Rudy Giuliani be than George W. Bush? Author Kevin Baker counts the ways.

The Missing Class

Sociologist Katherine Newman talks about the "near poor," that vast pool of workers who are neither officially destitute nor comfortably working-class.

Purple America

Democrats are poised to seize a historic opportunity to win back voters in the South and West they started losing four decades ago.

Books & the Arts

The Stuff of Heartbreak

When an ardently progressive magazine sponsors a cruise through the fragile waters off the coast of Alaska, the environmental, economic and human realities are ripe for contemplati...

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