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May 21, 2008 / Christian Parenti and Our Readers
Republican Bonding Republican Bonding
No daylight between these two characters.
May 21, 2008 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Kennedy–The Senate’s Fighting Liberal Kennedy–The Senate’s Fighting Liberal
"I would not be here as a presidential candidate were it not for some of the battles he fought as a senator. He battled for voting rights and civil rights when I was a child. I st...
May 21, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Dirty Work Dirty Work
First we outsourced torture to others. Now others outsource it to us! U.S. military personnel at Guantanamo Bay allegedly softened up detainees at the request of Chinese intellig...
May 21, 2008 / Chris Hayes
The Iron Laws of Imprisonment, Bush-style The Iron Laws of Imprisonment, Bush-style
Back in the mid-1990s, in my book, The End of Victory Culture, I wrote the following about the adventure films of my childhood (and those of earlier decades): "For th...
May 21, 2008 / TomDispatch
Praying for War at the Gas Pump Praying for War at the Gas Pump
How have the Saudis thanked George W. Bush for protecting their sorry oil well of a country? Just check the price of gas.
May 21, 2008 / Column / Robert Scheer
Obama Gets Pledged Delegate Majority, But Clinton Stays In Obama Gets Pledged Delegate Majority, But Clinton Stays In
Barack Obama may have reached what he describes as "a major milestone on this journey" up the 2008 campaign trail. The senator from Illinois has now secured a majority of the "ple...
May 21, 2008 / John Nichols
Daniel Berrigan: Forty Years After Catonsville Daniel Berrigan: Forty Years After Catonsville
In this 2008 interview, neither time nor age had blunted Berrigan’s fierce critique of American empire and his radical interpretation of the Gospels.
May 20, 2008 / Feature / Chris Hedges
Bush’s Islamist Enemies List Bush’s Islamist Enemies List
By conflating Al Qaeda, Hamas and Hezbollah, the President displays his ignorance--and could be laying the groundwork for attacks by Israel on Hamas and Hezbollah.
May 20, 2008 / Feature / Mohamad Bazzi
China’s Inauspicious Year China’s Inauspicious Year
China's response to the earthquake and other calamities of 2008 challenges the West to rethink its prejudices.
May 20, 2008 / Feature / Jeffrey Wasserstrom