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November 20, 2006 Issue
John Nichols declares winners in the off-year presidential primary, Negar Azimi looks at civil society at risk in Iran, K. Leander Williams…
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Editorial
Even the most naive American voter
cannot be expected to see the morally, legally and politically questionable death sentence given to Saddam Hussein a milestone in the Bush Admin...
Richard Falk
Stay the course? Cut and run? Cut the crap? What will former Secretary of State James A. Baker III propose after the midterm elections, when the bipartisan Iraq Study Group reveals...
Evan Eisenberg
What are we laughing at when we laugh at Borat?
Richard Goldstein
Human rights advocates are pressing German courts to prosecute Donald
Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales and other Bush Administration officials for
war crimes. They just might succeed.
Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith
As presidential hopefuls from both parties press their advantage on the
platform of the 2006 midterm election, the winners are...
John Nichols
To repair our broken voting system, declare Election Day a holiday,
establish national election standards and require reliable voting
machines and a paper trail.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Column
Bush insisted that Saddam Hussein's trial be held in Iraq so that an international tribunal would never expose America's history of support for the tyrant.
Robert Scheer
Take time out to acknowledge the return of the NBA--and the beginning of
a political season of sorts for NBA players with a social conscience.
Dave Zirin
If people keep making sexist attacks against Hillary Clinton, I may just
have to vote for her. That means you, Elizabeth Edwards!
Katha Pollitt
As things stand in organized politics today, a purely formal protest
against what the GOP has done to America is the most we can hope for.
Alexander Cockburn
Feature
The electoral process worked for pro-choice advocates in South Dakota,
overturning an abortion ban with a grassroots appeal to keep the government out of citizens' personal lives....
Liza Featherstone
Joe Lieberman won an idiosyncratic victory. He holds his seat despite his relentless support for Iraq, rather than because of it.
Bruce Shapiro
John Bolton's surprise announcement that a former Washington
Times editor will head the UN's World Food Program bodes ill for
the idea that competence is more important than...
Ian Williams
Despite Daniel Ortega's many flaws, the return of the Sandinistas to power creates the possibility that his challenge to the "savage capitalism" of the previous regime can genuinel...
Mark Engler
Demonstrators wearing a controversial T-shirt tested the limits of free
expression on the Staten Island Ferry.
Ali Winston
A virtual state of siege prevails in Oaxaca, where military police have occupied the central square, clearing barricades and detaining scores of activists.
Michael McCaughan
John Kerry should stop being nice about the Deserter in Chief. He should be reminding voters that the President who has sent more than 3,000 US soldiers and allies and untold thous...
Ian Williams
The Bush Administration has so politicized government agencies that an entire culture of civil service professionals is being replaced by
conservative political operatives loyal on...
Dan Zegart
As Iran and the United States trade insults and America presses for Iranians to rise up, educators, students and women's rights groups may pay the greatest cost.
Negar Azimi
If US officials stopped their saber-rattling over Iran's nuclear
ambitions and began to negotiate directly, they would have an
eye-opening experience.
Scott Ritter
Books & the Arts
Penelope Cruz shines in Pedro Almodóvar's Volver; James Longley's Iraq in Fragments is a repository of small truths.
Stuart Klawans
Todd Snider has a songwriter's flair for the absurd--and he's morphed
from a barroom wiseacre to a keen observer of life at the workaday
fringes of Bush's America.
K. Leander Williams
The secular left should think twice before casting religious people as
its foes. After all, alienating potential allies and confining
ourselves to a small sect of like-minded belie...
Eyal Press
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