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Senator Bernie Sanders – founder and current member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus – wants to raise $100 billion to address the needs of ordinary Americans who...
Mar 15, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Take the Money and Run Take the Money and Run
New biographies of Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon depict the two primeval capitalists in all their contradictory complexity.
Mar 15, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Steve Fraser
Made in USA Made in USA
Two books about Kofi Annan illuminate the controlling relationship between the US and the United Nations.
Mar 15, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Perry Anderson
Bush’s Shadow Army Bush’s Shadow Army
An investigation into Blackwater USA reveals a frightening picture of a politically connected private army that serves as the administration's Praetorian guard.
Mar 15, 2007 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill
Europeans Do It Better Europeans Do It Better
In an overpopulated and warming world, isn't it weird that governments are encouraging large families?
Mar 15, 2007 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Here Comes Another ‘Crime Wave’ Here Comes Another ‘Crime Wave’
Will any candidate have the fortitude to link America's crimes abroad with crime at home?
Mar 15, 2007 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
‘Additional Troop Increase Approved’ ‘Additional Troop Increase Approved’
The real meaning of "surge."
Mar 15, 2007 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Robert Engler Robert Engler
Remembering the political economist who brought to contemporary issues the research and philosophical vision of a scholar.
Mar 15, 2007 / The Editors
King of Calypso King of Calypso
In praise of Harry Belafonte, on his eightieth birthday.
Mar 15, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Walter Mosley
Soft-Core Sexism Soft-Core Sexism
If movies reflect our shared consensus about right and wrong, Black Snake Moan speaks volumes about twenty-first-century America.
Mar 15, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Lakshmi Chaudhry