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Youth Interrupted Youth Interrupted

Fleeing the Iraq War, increasing numbers of young refugees are forced into prostitution.

Sep 22, 2007 / Tina Gerhardt

Testimony As Resistance: Resistir Para Vivir, Part 4 Testimony As Resistance: Resistir Para Vivir, Part 4

Juan Herrera, an indigenous activist with the Association for Justice and Reconciliation in Guatemala, speaks about surviving torture to demand justice.

Sep 22, 2007 / The Nation

Safe Children v. Free Trade Accords Safe Children v. Free Trade Accords

The latest horror stories about lead-laced toys imported from China may stir Congress to pass legislation providing overdue funding and enforcement authority to the beleagured Con...

Sep 21, 2007 / The Nation

The Fix Is In From the Fed–Maybe The Fix Is In From the Fed–Maybe

What, exactly, is the interest-rate cut going to fix?

Sep 21, 2007 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman

Healthcare Surrender Monkeys Healthcare Surrender Monkeys

America has faced down the Third Reich and the Red Menace, but it has met an enemy it dares not confront: the private health insurance industry.

Sep 21, 2007 / Barbara Ehrenreich

Blackwater: Hired Guns, Above the Law Blackwater: Hired Guns, Above the Law

Acting with impunity and immune from prosecution, a shadow army funded by US taxpayers is fueling the spiraling violence in Iraq.

Sep 21, 2007 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill

Why Bush Shed His GI Joe Gear Why Bush Shed His GI Joe Gear

Has anyone noticed that our commander-in-chief no longer plays dress up? He hasn't done so for a while and that's no small thing. It's a phenomenon that came and went almost with...

Sep 21, 2007 / TomDispatch

Blackwater, Oil and the Colonial Enterprise Blackwater, Oil and the Colonial Enterprise

Blackwater USA's mercenary mission in Iraq is very much in the news this week, and rightly so. The private military contractor's war-for-profit program, which has been so brillian...

Sep 21, 2007 / John Nichols

Dan Rather Won’t Take any “Bullshine” Dan Rather Won’t Take any “Bullshine”

It was riveting television. There was former CBS news anchor Dan Rather, sitting across from CNN's Larry King, railing against the threat powerful media corporations pose to freed...

Sep 21, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Democrats Stab MoveOn in the Back Democrats Stab MoveOn in the Back

Memo to Democrats: you control the Congress. That means you can decide what bills come to the floor for votes--and what don't. So why, in a week where Republicans blocked the resto...

Sep 21, 2007 / Ari Berman

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