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April 16, 2007 Issue
The Editors measure the impact of Congress’s Iraq exit strategies, Graham Usher explores Pakistan’s instability, Arthur C. Danto…
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Editorial
After all these years, will Reagan's budget chief go to jail for cooking the books?
William Greider
At a union-sponsored forum in Las Vegas, John Edwards presented a real healthcare plan, but Hillary Clinton captured the crowd.
Marc Cooper
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
The US Attorneys scandal sheds light on a broader pattern of transforming government agencies into a permanent GOP patronage machine.
The Editors
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
Column
The House Democratic leadership chooses merely to appear to oppose the war, while continuing to fund it.
Alexander Cockburn
A Supreme Court ruling turns a blind eye to torture and human rights violations, as long as they're done offshore.
Robert Scheer
Letters
DEFERENCE WHERE IT'S DUE
Santa Monica, Calif.
So Ari Berman thinks, "The rap on Baucus is that he has always valued h...
Our Readers
Feature
The openly gay former NBA star speaks eloquently against homophobia, the war in Iraq and racism.
Dave Zirin
Only reform can halt the growth of violent Islamization in Pakistan, which threatens to topple the current government.
Graham Usher
Can the new Students for a Democratic Society avoid the internal conflicts that plagued the original group?
Christopher Phelps
Barack Obama's political vision grew out of his early experiences as a community organizer in Chicago.
David Moberg
As bloggers gain strength as the political voice of the left, how can they compete with well-funded mainstream media?
Beccah Golubock Watson
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
The gap between rich and poor hasn't been this wide since the Depression.
Nicholas von Hoffman
Twenty years after its founding, the AIDS activist group is expanding its mission to universal healthcare.
Emily Douglas
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...
Mike Davis
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 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
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
Books & the Arts
Jacopo Tintoretto outshines Michelangelo, but his work is rarely seen outside of Venice.
Arthur C. Danto
Madison Smartt Bell's new biography of Toussaint Louverture explores the complexities of the man who created modern Haiti.
Laurent Dubois
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
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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