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Feingold Gets Afghanistan Right Feingold Gets Afghanistan Right

Senator Russ Feingold was way ahead of the Senate curve in insisting ona timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, and last week he got it rightagain in calling for a flexible timetabl...

Aug 31, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Obama Organizing Advisers Rap Healthcare Push Obama Organizing Advisers Rap Healthcare Push

Two former advisers to Barack Obama's presidential campaign, famed labor organizer Marshall Ganz and urban policy expert Peter Dreier, are now publicly criticizing Obama's healthca...

Aug 31, 2009 / Ari Melber

Revealing Hate: Inside White Supremacist World Revealing Hate: Inside White Supremacist World

The upcoming film, Revealing Hate takes an in-depth look at the chilling history and present of America's white supremacist organizations.

Aug 31, 2009 / YouTube

Verizon Wireless is Wrong Verizon Wireless is Wrong

Do 87 million Verizon Wireless customers know that the company is a co-sponsor of a major climate-change-denying, union-busting, pro-mountaintop removal Labor Day rally staged by...

Aug 31, 2009 / Peter Rothberg

My Lai and Lockerbie Reconsidered My Lai and Lockerbie Reconsidered

The eerie confluence of the tales of two convicted mass murderers, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi and William Calley--and their fates.

Aug 31, 2009 / Nick Turse

A Survival Guide for New Teachers of Color A Survival Guide for New Teachers of Color

Antonio Ramírez A Milwaukee teacher reflects on those first difficult years.

Aug 31, 2009 / The Nation

Senator Vicki Kennedy? Senator Vicki Kennedy?

Ted Kennedy has been well remembered and buried. Now, the question becomes, who will replace "the lion of the Senate" in the seat representing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. ...

Aug 31, 2009 / John Nichols

Perils of the Poetry Reading Perils of the Poetry Reading

Am I the only person who finds it hard to follow an unfamiliar poem when I hear it read out loud and don't have the text in front of me? Even when reading to myself at my own ...

Aug 30, 2009 / Katha Pollitt

Katrina’s Hidden Race War: Four Years Later Katrina’s Hidden Race War: Four Years Later

A segment on Anderson Cooper 360 investigates the white vigilante justice that tore through New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Aug 28, 2009 / CNN

Slacker Friday Slacker Friday

Wrapup: I've now a new "Think Again" column called "Official Evidence vs. 'Gut Hatred'" here. It's about the derision those people who were right about Bush and Iraq continue ...

Aug 28, 2009 / Eric Alterman

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