April 10, 2006 Issue

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Moment of Truth

There is no immigration crisis in the US. But it is time America acknowledged that we need the immigrant workers as much as they need us–and treat them accordingly.
Robert Scheer
The President Is Not Smiling

Card is out, Bolten in. The Senate is stuck on immigration. And every day brings more bad news. Take care of this, will you, Josh?
William Greider
Avian Flu Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Large factory farms, not migratory birds, are now seen as breeding grounds for the avian flu virus. Donald Rumsfeld is getting rich off his investment in Tamiflu. Can this pandemic get any crazier?
Nicholas von Hoffman
The Dot-Degree Boom

Thanks to aggressive recruiting tactics and a complaisant Congress, online enrollments at the University of Phoenix and its spinoff, Axia College, are soaring. So are student debt and disaffection.
Garrett Ordower
Science Fact or Science Fiction?

Climate change is real, and its impact is potentially devastating to our way of life. So why do the news media have such a hard time telling the straight story?
Bryan Farrell
Google’s Wi-Fi Privacy Ploy

Google and other telecom giants are wooing cities with plans to create public Wi-Fi grids. But there’s no such thing as a free digital lunch: The price we pay is a loss of online privacy.
Jeffrey Chester
Republicanizing the Race Card

David Duke and a cohort of white nationalists seek to reposition their minuscule movement at a time when their signature issues have been co-opted by pseudo-populist media personalities and the GOP.
Max Blumenthal
Who Is Killing New Orleans?

Mayor-appointed commissions and experts, mostly white and Republican, propose to radically shrink and reshape a majority-black and Democratic city.
Mike Davis
The Emerging New Euroleft

Europe’s radical left is still struggling to articulate new strategies for social, economic and political change.
Hilary Wainwright

Editorial

Looking for Answers in Argentina

The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, icons of courageous demands for accountability in Argentina, marked a thirty-year milestone and a significant if imperfect victory in the fight for human rights.
Joanne Omang
Neglect in New Orleans

A perfect storm of malign neglect is battering the victims of Hurricane Katrina. But the people of New Orleans are fighting back: They deserve our support as they press for the rights of the displaced.
The Editors
Censoring Censure

By failing to support Russ Feingold’s motion to censure the President for illegal domestic spying, Democrats are taking the same path of overly calculated caution that cost them elections in 2002 and 2004.
John Nichols
Giving Americans a Raise

The massive number of Americans who support raising the minimum wage should spur Congress to action.
Katrina vanden Heuvel and Sam Graham-Felsen
Israel’s Backward March

If Israel’s Kadima Party prevails at the polls as expected, its policies will effectively take Israelis several steps backward.
Neve Gordon
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Column

A Summary of Remarks By George W. Bush and Dick Cheney on the Third Anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq

A Summary of Remarks By George W. Bush and Dick Cheney on the Third Anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq
Calvin Trillin
Left’s Labour Lost

After nine years, Tony Blair’s magic has worn off. His Labour Party has mutated from an imperfect conduit of progressive change into an active obstacle to it.
Gary Younge
Why There’s No Strategy to End This War

When Democrats ignored Russ Feingold’s motion to censure the President, they provided more evidence that there is no visible national strategy to end the war and bring the troops home.
Alexander Cockburn

Books & the Arts

The Life I Didn’t Lead

A meditation on travel, art and a life fully lived.
Linda Pastan
Strangers in the Land

Human Cargo and The Rights of Others chronicle the plight of refugees and migrants, revealing how seemingly simple moral positions can assume toxic political form.
Corey Robin
Brother From Another Planet

If you missed the 1995 CUNY “Question of Identity” conference, the issue of October magazine devoted to it, the “remarkable” essay on the same subject in Diacritics or–even worse
Russell Jacoby
The Wild Child

Reviews of L’Enfant, V for Vendetta, Shakespeare Behind Bars, Toro Negro, The Devil’s Miner and Mardi Gras: Made in China.
Stuart Klawans
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April 10, 2006 Issue

Feature

There is no immigration crisis in the US. But it is time America acknowledged that we need the immigrant workers as much as they need us–and treat them accordingly.

Card is out, Bolten in. The Senate is stuck on immigration. And every day brings more bad news. Take care of this, will you, Josh?

Large factory farms, not migratory birds, are now seen as breeding grounds for the avian flu virus. Donald Rumsfeld is getting rich off his investment in Tamiflu. Can this pandemic get any crazier?

Thanks to aggressive recruiting tactics and a complaisant Congress, online enrollments at the University of Phoenix and its spinoff, Axia College, are soaring. So are student debt and disaffection.

Climate change is real, and its impact is potentially devastating to our way of life. So why do the news media have such a hard time telling the straight story?

Google and other telecom giants are wooing cities with plans to create public Wi-Fi grids. But there’s no such thing as a free digital lunch: The price we pay is a loss of online privacy.

David Duke and a cohort of white nationalists seek to reposition their minuscule movement at a time when their signature issues have been co-opted by pseudo-populist media personalities and the GOP.

Mayor-appointed commissions and experts, mostly white and Republican, propose to radically shrink and reshape a majority-black and Democratic city.

Europe’s radical left is still struggling to articulate new strategies for social, economic and political change.

Editorial

The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, icons of courageous demands for accountability in Argentina, marked a thirty-year milestone and a significant if imperfect victory in the fight for human rights.

A perfect storm of malign neglect is battering the victims of Hurricane Katrina. But the people of New Orleans are fighting back: They deserve our support as they press for the rights of the displaced.

By failing to support Russ Feingold’s motion to censure the President for illegal domestic spying, Democrats are taking the same path of overly calculated caution that cost them elections in 2002 and 2004.

The massive number of Americans who support raising the minimum wage should spur Congress to action.

If Israel’s Kadima Party prevails at the polls as expected, its policies will effectively take Israelis several steps backward.

GET UNLIMITED DIGITAL ACCESS FOR LESS THAN $3 A MONTH!

Column

A Summary of Remarks By George W. Bush and Dick Cheney on the Third Anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq

After nine years, Tony Blair’s magic has worn off. His Labour Party has mutated from an imperfect conduit of progressive change into an active obstacle to it.

When Democrats ignored Russ Feingold’s motion to censure the President, they provided more evidence that there is no visible national strategy to end the war and bring the troops home.

Books & the Arts

A meditation on travel, art and a life fully lived.

Human Cargo and The Rights of Others chronicle the plight of refugees and migrants, revealing how seemingly simple moral positions can assume toxic political form.

If you missed the 1995 CUNY “Question of Identity” conference, the issue of October magazine devoted to it, the “remarkable” essay on the same subject in Diacritics or–even worse

Reviews of L’Enfant, V for Vendetta, Shakespeare Behind Bars, Toro Negro, The Devil’s Miner and Mardi Gras: Made in China.

The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.

Letters

“A Letter to the American Left” (Feb. 27) by Bernard-Henri Levy (aka BHL) ignited a firestorm of (mostly) angry mail.