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John Nichols on the House Dems' new leader, Jennifer Baumgardner on the V-Day summit and Alexander Cockburn on the antiwar movement and its critics.
Letters
Editorials
When immigrant janitors in Boston went on strike this fall, they
attracted some unlikely allies.
CORRECTION: John Eder of Maine, a Green, won state, not national, office.
Iraq's decision to accept the United Nations Security Council
resolution, passed unanimously on November 8, sets in motion a tightly
scripted plan for UN arms inspectors to return to Iraq.
The eleventh floor of the federal building in Newark is not a place
anyone visits by choice. The air-conditioning is always either too cold
or not cold enough.
In defeat, Democrats have convened their perennial circular firing
squad, issuing salvos of what Groucho Marx used to call
departee--what they should have said.
Columns
President Bush, a scion of great wealth who has never had to earn an honest living, has abruptly wiped out the jobs, retirement security and health benefits of 850,000 blue- and white-collar
Well, the elephant is out of the barn now. Congress is lost and whither
Congress, so will go the courts.
Do we have an antiwar movement? We're getting there.
The talk of war has done its job.
Rove's hopes were far exceeded.
So maybe, with the voting done,
The war itself's not needed.
Articles
Terrorists and gun smugglers like to buy guns in America because of
the abundant inventory at gun shops and gun shows, and the laxity of US
gun-law enforcement.
America remains a global shopping center for terrorists and others.
Let's take back the Democratic Party and do all we can to beat Bush in 2004.
Nancy Pelosi, a Democratic leader who knows how to fight and what to fight for.
At a V-Day summit, feminist antiviolence activists shared strategy and gnocchi.
Books & the Arts
Nature versus nurture was always too simple a formulation. Now, we ask:
Is it chance, choice, family, culture, hormones or genes that determine
who we are and whom we love?
Gioconda Belli--poet, novelist, society belle reborn as Sandinista
comrade--has written a memoir of the Nicaraguan struggle that reads like
a romance--a romance with politics and revolution, ce
On March 16, 1972, readers in Italy and throughout the publishing world
were shocked by the day's headlines.
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