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October 2, 2006 Issue

Mark Hertsgaard examines California’s global warming initiative, Peter Kwong looks at China’s burgeoning economy and growing soc…

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Editorial

Bush’s Selective Perception

President Bush's address to the UN General Assembly was less disdainful than earlier speeches, but it shined a light on the President's willful blindness to the complexity of the p...

Ian Williams

The UN After Lebanon

The UN's mixed record on the war in Lebanon proves we should lower our expectations of what it can meaningfully achieve.

Richard Falk

CA Leads on Climate

California's global warming initiative shows how far ahead the state is compared with the federal government. But it also reveals how America lags behind the rest of the world.

Mark Hertsgaard

No Clear Antiwar Signal

Anyone looking for a signal from the primaries that Democrats will be a clear antiwar party didn't get it.

John Nichols

A Scandal If Not a Crime

The White House behaved unethically by exposing Valerie Plame's identity. Escaping prosecution is not the same as escaping judgment.

The Editors

Lawless ‘Compromises’

Prime midyear election issues: Torture and eavesdropping are illegal. We are a nation founded on the rule of law.

The Editors

Column

Render Unto Syria

Will anyone in the somnambulant White House press corps dare ask the President why he would "render" a Canadian to Syria to be tortured and imprisoned without charges?

Robert Scheer

Sneakers for Social Justice?

New York Knicks point guard Stephon Marbury is getting props with a $14.98 sneaker designed to appeal to low-income kids. But the criticism he's endured over sweatshop labor shows ...

Dave Zirin

Lying About 9/11? Easy as ABC

Why did the network humiliate its news division, ignore historians and insult Americans with a 9/11 docudrama that it knew was a tissue of lies?

Eric Alterman

A Klatch of Civilizations

As Survivor races to the bottom by dividing this season's contenders into race-based tribes, perhaps we can look to Starbucks for new models of how to blend in.

Patricia J. Williams

George Bush Explains His Policy on Torture To Someone Who Is Being Waterboarded

Calvin Trillin

Letters

MILITARY FAMILY DIARY

Hillsborough, NC

Our Readers and Thomas J. Sugrue

Feature

The Real Crisis in Uganda

The cease-fire between Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army is only a first step in resolving the humanitarian crisis. The West must push for the release of 2 million Acholis...

Salim Lone

Life After Net Neutrality: Replaced By a Chimp?

If Senator Ted Stevens defies mounting public opposition and succeeds in killing net neutrality, expect the free flow of online content to be replaced by lowbrow corporate infotain...

Jeffrey Chester

Torture and the Content of our Character

The standoff between the Senate and the Bush Administration over military tribunals, torture and war crimes tests core legal and moral issues and will determine the kind of country...

Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith

China’s Neoliberal Dynasty

As China's economy surges forward, so does the pileup of social contradictions: pollution, migration, crime and family dysfunction.

Peter Kwong

Congo Journey

It was the strangest journey of my life, and it will always be. I was looking for fictional characters I had invented, in a country I had never visited.

John le Carré