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End of the Daley Show

End of the Daley Show End of the Daley Show

Is there a progressive vision for the post-Daley era in Chicago?

Sep 23, 2010 / Don Rose

Noted. Noted.

Michael Tracy on the Republican filibuster of the DREAM Act and Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal, Peter Rothberg on the One Nation Working Together march and Jennifer O'Mahony on the Po...

Sep 23, 2010 / Various Contributors

Invisible Arab-Americans Invisible Arab-Americans

It's long past time for us to recognize Arab- and Muslim-Americans as an integral part of America's complexity.

Sep 23, 2010 / Alia Malek

The Problem With Peretz The Problem With Peretz

With Marty Peretz, the problem is not a single racist statement, it's a lifetime of them.

Sep 23, 2010 / Column / Eric Alterman

Islamophobia, European-Style

Islamophobia, European-Style Islamophobia, European-Style

In the George W. Bush years, there was little political capital in scapegoating Muslims. Now, apparently, there's a lot.

Sep 23, 2010 / Column / Gary Younge

US Businessman: Blackwater Paid Me to Buy Steroids and Weapons on Black Market for its Shooters US Businessman: Blackwater Paid Me to Buy Steroids and Weapons on Black Market for its Shooters

The businessman also alleges he witnessed Blackwater's cocaine- and hashish-laced "frat parties gone wild" and random shooting at Iraqi civilians.

Sep 23, 2010 / Jeremy Scahill

The Perils of Hydro-Fracking

The Perils of Hydro-Fracking The Perils of Hydro-Fracking

Gasland may well be the most important film made in America in years.

Sep 23, 2010 / Peter Rothberg

The Group: On George Price

The Group: On George Price The Group: On George Price

The enigma of George Price: He derived an equation for the evolution of altruism, yet he died believing himself a failed good Samaritan.

Sep 22, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Miriam Markowitz

Sardines Sardines

is a yellow, red, orange, black & green word. I got sardines at the dollar store where everything except sardines is more than a dollar, for sixty cents, as they should be my father used to take sardine sandwiches to work perhaps therefore, I love sardines. when people used to talk about the subway, they'd say: we were packed like sardines which sends a message: small, cheap, tightly packed, anchovies for the poor or you too can be colorful & inexpensive as a really snappy, tiny bright blue convertible in which you can enjoy the good things about feeling like a sardine but maybe you'd rather be a striped bass or be a manatee with mev or a grand whale, forgetful of nothing even being so big, the ocean's CEO, you'll take home a giant amount of cash when the ocean goes bust so you can share it even with the downtrodden sardines who get packed in cans in Thailand & shipped to the family dollar store for Bernadette

Sep 22, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Bernadette Mayer

Good-Enough Objects: On Craft Good-Enough Objects: On Craft

How did craft become a calling that dare not speak its name?

Sep 22, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

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