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Bush’s Iran/Argentina Terror Frame-Up Bush’s Iran/Argentina Terror Frame-Up

The Bush Administration cites a 1994 bombing in Argentina to tar Iran as a sponsor of global terror. But a fresh probe finds no evidence of an Iran connection.

Jan 19, 2008 / Feature / Gareth Porter

A Conversation with Taylor Branch A Conversation with Taylor Branch

MLK's biographer on presidents, politics, racial injustice, poverty and war.

Jan 18, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Bruce Wallace

Clinton’s Anti-Union Allies Clinton’s Anti-Union Allies

Robert Johnson's nasty comments about Barack Obama earlier this week caused a huge stir in the media. Johnson issued a less-than-convincing clarification and then apologized to Oba...

Jan 18, 2008 / Ari Berman

CSI: Iraq CSI: Iraq

Despite the cosmetic acts of President Bush, his undertakers and enablers, America's Iraq is still a corpse.

Jan 18, 2008 / Tom Engelhardt

Our Eroding Dollar Our Eroding Dollar

No matter how much it adds to inflation, the Fed, prodded by Wall Street, is poised to again lower interest rates--punching an even bigger hole in our purchasing power.

Jan 18, 2008 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman

NIMBY Comes to China NIMBY Comes to China

In Shanghai, angry, middle-class protesters say a high-speed train will wreck their quality of life. This new form of dissent could be one of the biggest challenges China will face...

Jan 18, 2008 / Feature / Jeffrey Wasserstrom

Racial Politics, Clinton Style Racial Politics, Clinton Style

No matter who injected the issue of race and gender into the Democratic presidential campaign, it's not going away.

Jan 18, 2008 / Ari Berman

A Must-Win State for Obama A Must-Win State for Obama

Caucuses are indefensibly awful ways in which to select delegates to a political party's national convention, and they are an even worse way in which to sort out the field of cand...

Jan 18, 2008 / John Nichols

Whither the Dream Whither the Dream

This post was updated on January 20, and then again on January 21. From 1961 to 1966, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. wrote an annual essay for The Nation on the state of civ...

Jan 18, 2008 / Peter Rothberg

Obama and the Reagan Wing of the Democratic Party Obama and the Reagan Wing of the Democratic Party

"The genius of American democracy has somehow done it again. George Bush is the right president at the right time." So declared the consistently-conservative Las Vegas Review-Jou...

Jan 18, 2008 / John Nichols

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