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March 3, 2008 Issue

Alexander Cockburn on political mistakes, Frederika Randall on Italian politics, a poem by Charles Bernstein.

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

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Editorial

The History of Hope

Voters drawn to Barack Obama are often criticized as naive. But appeals to our collective hope for a more decent society are core to the American experience.

Noted.

Uncommitted superdelegates, antiwar agitation in Berkeley, immunity for telecoms and more.

Purple Obama

While Obama was winning over Virginians he was not supposed to have a prayer with, McCain was losing some voters he must have.

Column

Letters

Feature

‘End the War in 2009’

Barack Obama has hastened his timetable for withdrawing troops from Iraq, setting the stage for an election battle with John McCain and the forces of neoconservatism.

Potshots in Space

From the heaving deck of the USS Lake Erie, the Bush Administration takes shaky aim at a rogue satellite hurtling to Earh, carrying unknown secrets. The missile attack is purely hu...

Rigged Trials at Gitmo

In an exclusive interview, Col. Morris Davis, former chief prosecutor for Guantánamo's military commissions, says that the Pentagon has foreclosed the possibility of acquitt...

Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho

Our Story: As the probe into the supposed suicide of her political mentor unfolds, Kang is grilled by an intriguing homicide cop, and suddenly new troubles develop.

Books & the Arts

The History of Hope

Voters drawn to Barack Obama are often criticized as naive. But appeals to our collective hope for a more decent society are core to the American experience.

The Ice Forge

The generation that came of age in Stalin's Russia was torn between perpetual fear and profound emotional investment in the Soviet ideal.

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