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John Amaechi’s Timeout

The openly gay former NBA star speaks eloquently against homophobia, the war in Iraq and racism.

Dave Zirin

Pakistan’s Shaky Dictatorship

Only reform can halt the growth of violent Islamization in Pakistan, which threatens to topple the current government.

Graham Usher

The New SDS

Can the new Students for a Democratic Society avoid the internal conflicts that plagued the original group?

Christopher Phelps

Obama’s Community Roots

Barack Obama’s political vision grew out of his early experiences as a community organizer in Chicago.

David Moberg

Making Blogging Pay

As bloggers gain strength as the political voice of the left, how can they compete with well-funded mainstream media?

Beccah Golubock Watson

Gitmo Justice

David Hicks pleads guilty and goes free, while the Supreme Court denies nearly 400 other terror suspects their day in court. This is justice?

Aziz Huq

Rich Get Richer, Poor Get Powerless

The gap between rich and poor hasn’t been this wide since the Depression.

Nicholas von Hoffman

ACT UP’s New Urgency

Twenty years after its founding, the AIDS activist group is expanding its mission to universal healthcare.

Emily Douglas

Denial in the Desert

Abrupt climate change is rapidly turning the American West into a desert. But a culture in denial continues rampant suburbanization, fueled by the delusion that our water supply is inexhaustible.

Mike Davis

Car Bombs: WMDs the Surge Can’t Stop

The favored weapon of the ill-armed and underfunded is the one weapon of mass destruction that the Bush Administration has totally ignored.

Mike Davis

The Sum of Our Fears

The money we’ve wasted on unseen terrorists, nonexistent WMDs and phantom pedophiles could have been used to address any number of legitimate threats.

Chris Hayes

‘Para-politics’ Goes Bananas

Chiquita Brands has been fined $25 million by the US Justice Department for funding a terrorist paramilitary group, but isn’t that just the cost of doing business with Colombia?

Michael Evans

Stockman’s Folly

After all these years, will Reagan’s budget chief go to jail for cooking the books?

William Greider

Betting on Healthcare

At a union-sponsored forum in Las Vegas, John Edwards presented a real healthcare plan, but Hillary Clinton captured the crowd.

Marc Cooper

A Turning Point

By voting to set a timetable to withdraw from Iraq, the House and Senate are finally at the table, challenging Bush’s war-making.

The Editors

A Wider Corruption

The US Attorneys scandal sheds light on a broader pattern of transforming government agencies into a permanent GOP patronage machine.

The Editors

Attorneygate in Guam

Before there was Attorneygate, there was the 2002 firing of a US Attorney in Guam engaged in a prosecution of Jack Abramoff. Anyone see a pattern here?

Ari Berman

That Was an Antiwar Vote?

The House Democratic leadership chooses merely to appear to oppose the war, while continuing to fund it.

Alexander Cockburn

What Congress Is Concluding About the Attorney General’s Relationship With The Truth

The truth gets whacked on Fredo’s watch.

Calvin Trillin

Leave Your Morals at the Border

A Supreme Court ruling turns a blind eye to torture and human rights violations, as long as they’re done offshore.

Robert Scheer

A Mannerist in Madrid

Jacopo Tintoretto outshines Michelangelo, but his work is rarely seen outside of Venice.

Arthur C. Danto

A Free Man

Madison Smartt Bell’s new biography of Toussaint Louverture explores the complexities of the man who created modern Haiti.

Laurent Dubois

On the Genealogy of Morals

Inventing Human Rights traces the roots of humanitarian concern back to the eighteenth century. But there’s a world of difference between then and now.

Samuel Moyn

Body Language

A new “ethnic correctness” is taking hold among minorities that might reverse a rising trend among Asians and others to undergo plastic surgery to look more westernized.

Andrew Lam

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