April 17, 2006 Issue

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Feature

Rumsfeld Must Go

Calls for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld are growing louder. Here is a dossier on his critics, from A to Zinni.
Simon Maxwell Apter
¡No Más! No More!

Uruguay and Argentina are cutting ties with the US Army’s School of the Americas, paving the way for other Latin American countries to end a destabilizing force that only perpetuates human rights atrocities.
Patrick Mulvaney
Don’t Blame Environmentalists for Malaria

Tina Rosenberg is wrong to argue in the New York Times that environmentalists who fought to limit the use of DDT have contributed to the worldwide spread of malaria.
Sonia Shah
Anatomy of a Bad Law

Before the South Dakota legislature passed landmark legislation banning abortion, it commissioned an objective study of the issue. The result, a flawed and one-sided report, could fuel the fight to challenge the law in court.
Lauren Bans
The Devil Inside

Falsehoods, fudges and outright lies have defined Ralph Reed’s career. Tarnished by the Abramoff scandal, he’s betting his political future on the tendency of the religious right to see no evil in its leaders.
Bob Moser
The Left Needs More Socialism

As the bottom line is touted as the answer to every question and “liberal” has become a dirty word, it’s time for the left in America to get friendly again with socialism.
Ronald Aronson
Taming Global Capitalism Anew

Taming global capitalism is the overriding challenge of our time. Joseph E. Stiglitz, Thea Lee, James K. Galbraith and others offer their ideas on how the United States can transform global capitalism by creating a new social contract.
Joel Rogers , James K. Galbraith , Jeff Faux , Thea M. Lee , Will Hutton , Joseph E. Stiglitz , Marcellus Andrews and Jane D’Arista

Editorial

The Erotics of Resistance

With spring come glimmerings of new social attitudes: The popularity of V for Vendetta proves films with a social conscience resonate; Kanye West’s challenge to rap homophobia shows gangsta style is not the only option.
Richard Goldstein
ACS v. Federalists

The American Constitution Society is a new force, full of optimism and ideas that challenge the conservative agenda and promote progressive political principles.
Abner Mikva
How to Free the Press

The demise of Knight Ridder newspapers could result in some new media models–as the Newspaper Guild teams up with private investors to purchase twelve high-integrity newspapers now being spun off from the chain.
John Nichols
What’s Good for GM?

General Motors must shoulder blame for a faulty product mix and a stubborn resistance to the idea of single-payer health insurance, which sent benefits costs soaring.
Jamie Lincoln Kitman
Auto Recovery

GM’s struggle underscores the need to create a better social contract between workers and industry, and to invest in a world beyond the internal combustion engine.
The Editors
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Column

Robert Scheer: ‘Anti-Christian Conspirators’ Slay DeLay

Tom DeLay claims to see a vast anti-Christian conspiracy in the legal troubles that forced him out of the House–though his own sins would seem to be sufficient explanation.

Robert Scheer
Don’t Spare the Rod

What happens when liberals lose their sex drive? American culture moves further away from secular individualism and closer to religious fundamentalism.
Nicholas von Hoffman
Prescient and Patriotic: America’s Honor Roll

Here’s an honor roll of people who risked their positions and/or prestige to warn the nation of the Iraq War catastrophe.
Eric Alterman
Jeu de Vivre

The real world is becoming more like a computer game every day. I worry that the computer itself is breeding little cyberhumans who will wander among us, sucking the humanity out of our ears.
Patricia J. Williams
On the Revelation That Dick Cheney Requires The Television to Be Pre-set to Fox News in Any Hotel Room He Is About to Occupy

All the news the Veep agrees to watch is for minds that are not only closed, but locked.
Calvin Trillin

Books & the Arts

When Doves Cry

Two new books explore the Arab-Israeli tragedy: Shlomo Ben-Ami’s Scars of War, Wounds of Peace and Gershom Gorenberg’s The Accidental Empire.
Joel Beinin
Poll Vault

In Conned, Nation reporter Sasha Abramsky sets out to highlight a growing population of disenfranchised Americans.
Mark Sorkin
Nobel Prize Laureate Svetlana Alexievich’s Oral Histories Are Chronicles of the Future

In her cantos of loss readers feel a sense of communion, of a shared humanity in the face of horror.
Andrew Meier
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Letters

The New Campus Left-Style

Loads of student activists–far-left and moderate, dredded and shiny-shoed–and their mentors responded to Sam Graham-Felsen’s “The New Face of the Campus Left” [Feb. 13].
Our Readers and Sam Graham-Felsen

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April 17, 2006 Issue

Feature

Calls for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld are growing louder. Here is a dossier on his critics, from A to Zinni.

Uruguay and Argentina are cutting ties with the US Army’s School of the Americas, paving the way for other Latin American countries to end a destabilizing force that only perpetuates human rights atrocities.

Tina Rosenberg is wrong to argue in the New York Times that environmentalists who fought to limit the use of DDT have contributed to the worldwide spread of malaria.

Before the South Dakota legislature passed landmark legislation banning abortion, it commissioned an objective study of the issue. The result, a flawed and one-sided report, could fuel the fight to challenge the law in court.

Falsehoods, fudges and outright lies have defined Ralph Reed’s career. Tarnished by the Abramoff scandal, he’s betting his political future on the tendency of the religious right to see no evil in its leaders.

As the bottom line is touted as the answer to every question and “liberal” has become a dirty word, it’s time for the left in America to get friendly again with socialism.

Taming global capitalism is the overriding challenge of our time. Joseph E. Stiglitz, Thea Lee, James K. Galbraith and others offer their ideas on how the United States can transform global capitalism by creating a new social contract.

Editorial

With spring come glimmerings of new social attitudes: The popularity of V for Vendetta proves films with a social conscience resonate; Kanye West’s challenge to rap homophobia shows gangsta style is not the only option.

The American Constitution Society is a new force, full of optimism and ideas that challenge the conservative agenda and promote progressive political principles.

The demise of Knight Ridder newspapers could result in some new media models–as the Newspaper Guild teams up with private investors to purchase twelve high-integrity newspapers now being spun off from the chain.

General Motors must shoulder blame for a faulty product mix and a stubborn resistance to the idea of single-payer health insurance, which sent benefits costs soaring.

GM’s struggle underscores the need to create a better social contract between workers and industry, and to invest in a world beyond the internal combustion engine.

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Column

Tom DeLay claims to see a vast anti-Christian conspiracy in the legal troubles that forced him out of the House–though his own sins would seem to be sufficient explanation.

What happens when liberals lose their sex drive? American culture moves further away from secular individualism and closer to religious fundamentalism.

Here’s an honor roll of people who risked their positions and/or prestige to warn the nation of the Iraq War catastrophe.

The real world is becoming more like a computer game every day. I worry that the computer itself is breeding little cyberhumans who will wander among us, sucking the humanity out of our ears.

All the news the Veep agrees to watch is for minds that are not only closed, but locked.

Books & the Arts

Two new books explore the Arab-Israeli tragedy: Shlomo Ben-Ami’s Scars of War, Wounds of Peace and Gershom Gorenberg’s The Accidental Empire.

In Conned, Nation reporter Sasha Abramsky sets out to highlight a growing population of disenfranchised Americans.

In her cantos of loss readers feel a sense of communion, of a shared humanity in the face of horror.

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

Letters

Loads of student activists–far-left and moderate, dredded and shiny-shoed–and their mentors responded to Sam Graham-Felsen’s “The New Face of the Campus Left” [Feb. 13].