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LETTERS

Letters

Our Readers

EDITORIALS & COMMENTS

Healthcare History: Editorial

The House's healthcare reform bill is a first draft of history; as with most first drafts, it has its share of flaws.

The Perils of Palinism: Comment

Richard Kim & Betsy Reed | With enemies like Sarah Palin, who needs friends?

Noted.

"Tobin Tax" on the table; Palestinian Authority in peril; predictable Islamophobia after the Fort Hood shootings.

Outrageous Fortuño: Comment

Ed Morales | The combination of a four-year recession, a $3.2 billion deficit and a toxic Republican-style governor has turned Puerto Rico into a political powder keg.

COLUMNS

Senator Joe Lieberman and the Public Option

Calvin Trillin | He'll work to make a filibuster stick.

A Year of Obama

Alexander Cockburn | Since the president took office, his administration has yielded one surrender after another.

Whose Team Is It, Anyway?

Katha Pollitt | Prochoicers have been taking one for the team for too long now. Enough already.

Copenhagen: Seattle Grows Up

Naomi Klein | In Copenhagen, activists won't just say no--they will aggressively advance solutions that reduce emissions and narrow inequity.

ARTICLES

How the US Funds the Taliban

Aram Roston | With Pentagon cash, contractors bribe insurgents not to attack supply lines for US troops

The Fifty-Year War

Jonathan Schell | We learned so much, at such cost, in Vietnam. Why must we learn it all again in Afghanistan?

The Money Man's Best Friend

William Greider | Blue Dog Democrats are undermining prospects for financial-industry regulation and reform.

BOOKS & THE ARTS

The Misunderstood Robber Baron

Steve Fraser | T.J. Stiles's The First Tycoon is a gilded portrait of the robber baron Cornelius Vanderbilt.

Back Talk: Amy Bach

Christine Smallwood | A conversation with the author of Ordinary Injustice about why the right to trial is no protection against a shoddy legal system.

Evicted From His Own Head

Elaine Blair | In the stories of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, the landscape of the Russian revolution is hostile territory, and terrifying in its scope.

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