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October 4, 2004 Issue

Patricia J. Williams sees oil at the center of many of our problems David Ost explores lost idealism in Poland and Stuart Klawans reviews &q…

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Editorial

Taking Liberties

On September 2 a federal judge in Detroit threw out the only jury conviction the Justice Department has obtained on a terrorism charge since 9/11.

Letter From Ground Zero

Why does the United States--born in a people's war for national independence from the greatest empire of its time--have such a difficult time understanding the people's wars o...

Agents of Influence

Did Ariel Sharon, the Prime Minister of Israel, run a covert program with operatives in high-level US government positions to influence the Bush Administration's decision to g...

Command of the Truth

It's one measure of the decay--and the promise--of American political discourse that Seymour Hersh's Chain of Command arrives at a moment when John O'Neill and Jerome C...

Column

Bush’s Useful Idiot

Four years ago, Ralph Nader justified his third-party campaign on the grounds that the two parties represented nothing more than "Tweedledum and Tweedledee." As Americans die ...

Letters

Feature

Books & the Arts

Styles of Radical Will

One of South America's most brilliantly talented filmmakers has made a political road movie: the story of a young man who sets out on a journey of discovery and self-discovery...

Of Human Bondage

In the sequence of revolutions that remade the Atlantic world between 1776 and 1825, the Haitian Revolution is rarely given its due, yet without it the progressive credentials...

Difficult Loves

It wasn't until 1996, when President Bill Clinton declared April to be National Poetry Month, that the eminent translator and poet Richard Howard truly grasped the significanc...

Letter From Ground Zero

Why does the United States--born in a people's war for national independence from the greatest empire of its time--have such a difficult time understanding the people's wars o...

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