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October 10, 2005 Issue
Eyal Press argues that now is the time for new policies to end the inequities of racial segregation, Robert Christgau reviews Dream Boogie:…
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Editorial
New Orleans was top-of-mind for more than 100,000
peace advocates in Washington who delivered a clear and unified
message, protesting the Bush Administration's war in Iraq and its
...
Liza Featherstone
More than 7,000 people perished in a hurricane that
swept the Texas coast on September 13, 1900. In two unsigned dispatches,
The Nation described the scene. September 13 ...
The Nation
The political chess match between the White House and Senate
Democrats over the future of the Supreme Court took on new complexity
as three Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Commit...
Bruce Shapiro
As political parties in Germany dance toward a coalition
following the stalemated elections, the country is in for a turbulent
month--and new elections are a serious option.
Norman Birnbaum
An agreement between the United States and North
Korea resolving longstanding differences on nuclear weapons and energy
programs at first was cause for celebration. But in fact, no...
Jonathan Schell
Chile's Supreme Court handed Augusto Pinochet both a victory and a blow
with its recent rulings on Operation Columbo and Operation Condor.
Peter Kornbluh
Long-awaited reform efforts at the United Nations have
fallen far short of Kofi Annan's original vision. But despite John
Bolton's antagonism, there has been progress.
Stephen Schlesinger
It took a Gulf Coast hurricane to make Americans aware
of the poverty in their own backyard. Now it's time for public policies
that end racial segregation, so that the poor in this...
Eyal Press
The waning political power of the Bush Administration
poses a huge opportunity for Democrats to revitalize the party and
challenge the President's flawed vision of hurricane recove...
The Editors
Poet Sharon Olds writes an open letter to Laura Bush, explaining why she won't break bread at the White House.
Sharon Olds
Column
The hurricane-driven windfalls for GOP-connected
businesses continues, and so do the scandals of widespread corruption
among George Bush's cronies. And the rest of us are played fo...
Robert Scheer
New Orleans was not an unpredictable disaster--it was
a model for the incompetence of the Bush Administration. And when the
next disaster comes, we will all be under water.
Eric Alterman
Feature
Four peace advocates were acquitted of federal
conspiracy charges in connection with a 2003 protest of the Iraq War.
Elizabeth Bauchner
Had your fill of spin and flimflam about the
greatness of corporate America? Here's the real truth about money, high finance and low, commerce,
clever tricks, globalism and globalo...
Nicholas von Hoffman
When John G. Roberts Jr. counseled President Ronald
Reagan on AIDS policies, did he willfully perpetuate the myth that AIDS
can be spread by casual contact?
David W. Webber
This is a list of "Pro-Free-Market Ideas for Responding to Hurricane
Katrina and High Gas Prices," circulated by the Hou...
Naomi Klein
Here's how we identified more than 11,000 empty, rentable homes in
New Orleans:
Naomi Klein
The FBI--with apparent White House
approval--continues to seek the authority to bypass the court system in
pursuit of evidence against terror suspects.
David Corn
As corporations consolidate, they grab power from the
public. Here are seven modest proposals to give power back to the
public and avoid another Enron.
Ralph Nader
Why are the poorest victims of Hurricane Katrina
being kept out of perfectly livable homes?
Naomi Klein
What began as an amateur porn site has become a magnet for graphic images of combat and derisive comments posted by US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. But military officials a...
George Zornick
With military and law enforcement forces combing New
Orleans in the wake of the storm, why did the federal government feel compelled to hire private security firms Blackwater USA a...
Jeremy Scahill
Books & the Arts
Had your fill of spin and flimflam about the
greatness of corporate America? Here's the real truth about money, high finance and low, commerce,
clever tricks, globalism and globalo...
Nicholas von Hoffman
Tim Burton enlivens the dark and gloomy life of corpses
and aristocrats in Corpse Bride; Occupation: Dreamland
offers an unsentimental view of Iraqi soldiers.
Stuart Klawans
A Rick Moody novel is generally about one thing and
that is Rick Moody's ability to write very long, occasionally graceful
sentences.
Christine Smallwood
A womanizing gospel king and black-pride pop star, Sam
Cooke led a short life filled with contradiction.
Robert Christgau
Readers respond to poet Sharon Olds's decision to decline Laura Bush's invitation to dine at the White House.
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