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    LETTERS

    Our Readers, William Greider & Fawaz A. Gerges SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    EDITORIALS & COMMENTS

    Let the Republicans actually filibuster something, hour after excrutiating hour, in real time. The public won't like it.

    Remembering the pragmatic radical.

    Morton Mintz on what Rehnquist would have thought of Citizens United; John Nichols on net neutrality. SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Eric Foner | Howard Zinn's writings remain essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the upheavals of the '60s SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    D.D. Guttenplan | The Chilcot Inquiry's lesson is the terrible cost to any country that defines the national interest as standing shoulder to shoulder with Washington.

    COLUMNS

    Calvin Trillin | Secretive shmeering... SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Alexander Cockburn | A host of politicians and pundits would have you believe that Hispanic immigrants are to blame for an uptick in urban crime. They're wrong. SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Katha Pollitt | The trouble with protesting the Tim Tebow ad: all most people see is pro-choicers trying to shut up a brave mother and her son.

    ARTICLES

    Lawrence Lessig | There will be no change until we change Congress.

    Jeremy Scahill | Nine-year-old Ali Kinani died from a gunshot wound to the head in the Nisour Square massacre. His father may be the one man standing between Blackwater and total impunity. SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    BOOKS & THE ARTS

    D.D. Guttenplan | Morris Dickstein's elegant cultural history of the Great Depression.

    James Schuyler SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Michael O'Donnell | Who is the purest archetype of the conservative legal movement, Antonin Scalia or John Roberts?

    Stuart Klawans | The Red Riding trilogy; Martin Campbell's Edge of Darkness. SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

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» Act Now!

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» The Dreyfuss Report

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» The Notion

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» Editor's Cut

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