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May 1, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Guantánamo Ain’t No Joke Guantánamo Ain’t No Joke
Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantánamo Bay is very funny. Nothing about the real place is.
May 1, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Shayana Kadidal
Anti-Nuke Youth: The Next Generation Anti-Nuke Youth: The Next Generation
They're not waiting for WWIII: The millennial generation sets out to promote peace and a world without nukes.
May 1, 2008 / The Nation
The State of the Race The State of the Race
Today the Obama campaign held a conference call with Joe Andrew, former head of the DNC, who announced that he was switching his support from Clinton to Obama. This seems like a b...
May 1, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Back Talk: John Turturro Back Talk: John Turturro
Actor John Turturro discusses his latest project, a production of Beckett's Endgame at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
May 1, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Christine Smallwood
Photo Ops Photo Ops
Errol Morris's new documentary Standard Operating Procedure lacks critical distance but produces masterful evocations of Abu Ghraib.
May 1, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Sweet Martin’s Badass Song Sweet Martin’s Badass Song
Several new books on Martin Luther King takes a closer look at the rhetoric and economic politics of the civil rights icon.
May 1, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Scott Saul
A Deeper Black A Deeper Black
Shelby Steele's book on Barack Obama, an outdated critique of identity politics, misses the candidate's essential power.
May 1, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Ta-Nehisi Coates
Letter From Iran Letter From Iran
Iranians' attitudes toward Ahmadinejad range from sullen tolerance to bitter hostility.
May 1, 2008 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss
The New Geopolitics of Energy The New Geopolitics of Energy
The Pentagon has now placed resource competition at the center of its strategic planning.
May 1, 2008 / Feature / Michael T. Klare