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Feature
GI Loses First Round in Canada Asylum Bid
Jeremy Hinzman fled north rather than be deployed in a war he regards as a “criminal enterprise.”
Alisa Solomon
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Coke: The New Nike
A growing student movement is taking the company to task for its record on human rights around the globe.
Michael Blanding
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Patriotism Is Nonpartisan
Challenging a mistaken war can take more courage than fighting one.
George McGovern
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Security the Progressive Way
The lockdown strategy has made America less safe. there’s a better approach.
John Tirman
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The Minister of Minstrelsy
Meet Jesse Lee Peterson, who says what the right would like to, but can’t.
Max Blumenthal
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Editorial
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Old Women in the Cold
My 91-year-old friend Alice, like many elderly women, has outlived her modest savings.
Ruth Rosen
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Elite Protectionists
A man-bites-dog story of momentous implications is unfolding in Washington: The US multinational establishment, having successfully championed free-trade orthodoxy for decades, may now be flirtin
William Greider
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It’s Easter: He Is Recut
No flaying below the belt: That’s the guiding principle behind the kinder, gentler version of Mel Gibson’s biblical blood fest, which has hit the cineplex in time for the Easter season.
Richard Goldstein
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The Schiavo Hypocrites
With their handling of the heart-wrenching Terri Schiavo case, George W. Bush and his Republican allies in tragedy exploitation were awash in the currency of Washington: hypocrisy.
The Editors
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Democrats: MIA
After giving George W. Bush far too easy a ride in his first term, the Democratic leadership in Congress promised that the second term was going to be different.
The Editors
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Column
A Con Job by Pakistan’s Pal, George Bush
Trying to follow the US policy on the proliferation of nuclear weapons is like watching a three-card monte game on a city street corner. Except the stakes are higher.
Robert Scheer
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In Re Rather: The Target Is Journalism
That the resignation of Dan Rather from his CBS News anchor job is a humiliation for the so-called liberal media (SCLM) is taken as a given across the conservative and mainstream press.
Eric Alterman
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Habeas Corpus
There was an article in The New York Times Magazine not long ago about people who collect hyperrealistic “reborn” dolls.
Patricia J. Williams
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Orange Alerts
You know the things I miss so much it hurts?
Those orange alerts.
Routines, our leaders said–and this was strange–
Should not be changed:Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
Quartet for the End of Time
When David Spencer Ware was a baby, his mother pronounced a blessing over him. Go See the World became the title of the saxophonist’s first major-label record, for Columbia.
Brian Morton
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Dreams and Delusions
California inspires people to think big, and to write big books. Take, for example, Kevin Starr.
Jon Wiener
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The Imagination of Disaster
Saturday begins with its main character, Henry Perowne, getting out of bed because he’s unable to sleep and going to stand by an open window.
Lee Siegel
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Patriotism Is Nonpartisan
Challenging a mistaken war can take more courage than fighting one.
George McGovern
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It’s Easter: He Is Recut
No flaying below the belt: That’s the guiding principle behind the kinder, gentler version of Mel Gibson’s biblical blood fest, which has hit the cineplex in time for the Easter season.
Richard Goldstein
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Letters