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The right-wing ideologues are dead serious about dismantling
government.

Who's really behind the crude equation between Israel and "the Jews"?

The Democratic Leadership Council, the lost-inside-the-Beltway group
that last fall championed the disastrous Democratic strategy of cozying
up to the Bush Administration on military issues whi

Fouad Ajami is the Pentagon's favorite Arab.

In its tribute to Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who died on March 26, The
Economist mentions that his office washroom displayed a framed cover
of the September 22, 1979, issue of The Natio

George Bush is not the only one who has to fight a two-front war in the months ahead. So do progressives who want to take power in 2004--and beyond.

The presidential contest has begun, as usual, with the "money primary,"
in which major donors choose their favorites and weed out other
candidates, long before any citizen has an opportunity to

Seen as the antiwar candidate, he shies away from being called a
liberal.

Say what you will about Michael Lind, at least he's never predictable.
That is, of course, unless your prediction is that he's once again
trying to find a way to disagree with everyone else.
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Three days after he sued the President to force a Congressional vote on
whether to attack Iraq, and one day after hundreds of thousands of
antiwar demonstrators in New York cheered his call to