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Feature
The Revolution Will Be You-Tubed
Antiwar activists are using the video-sharing site to reach new audiences and counter mainstream media bias.
Wes Enzinna
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Gary Tyler’s Quest for Justice
Sports figures are joining the crusade to free a Louisiana man convicted as a teenager of a murder he didn’t commit.
Dave Zirin
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Saddam’s Last Laugh
A majority of Iraqis now say it’s OK to attack American troops. Thanks, George.
Robert Scheer
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Descent into March Madness
The Bracket Racket has dragged athletes and institutions of higher learning into the mud of big money and pseudo-professional sports.
Robert Lipsyte
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The Porn Plot Against Prosecutors
A US Attorney fired just as he began investigating a GOP lawmaker for corruption is now being smeared by the White House and its top porn cop.
Max Blumenthal
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Credit Card Tricks
Banks no longer lend money to people able to pay them back. Now they trap the poor, the sick, students and elderly people into signing up for credit cards and watch the fees pile up.
Nicholas von Hoffman
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The Smog of Race War in LA
Battles between the city’s black and Latino gangs are the outcome of a dismal racial and economic situation.
Roberto Lovato
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Bush’s Shadow Army
An investigation into Blackwater USA reveals a frightening picture of a politically connected private army that serves as the administration’s Praetorian guard.
Jeremy Scahill
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Editorial
Robert Engler
Remembering the political economist who brought to contemporary issues the research and philosophical vision of a scholar.
The Editors
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Swords Into Plowshares
As rural America becomes ground zero for Iraq casualties, Farms Not Arms is urging farmers to attend anti-war rallies and recruiting families to give refuge to returning vets.
Jason Mark
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Antiwar Students Rising
As the student peace movement grows stronger and more sophisticated, can it ignite the silent antiwar majority on campus?
Sam Graham-Felsen
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Soft-Core Sexism
If movies reflect our shared consensus about right and wrong, Black Snake Moan speaks volumes about twenty-first-century America.
Lakshmi Chaudhry
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Congress, End the War
After four years in Iraq, America and the world are crying for a way out of the bloodshed. Can Democrats lead the way?
The Editors
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The December 7 Massacre
The case of the Gonzales Eight proves the White House sees no legal limit on presidential power.
The Editors
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Column
Europeans Do It Better
In an overpopulated and warming world, isn’t it weird that governments are encouraging large families?
Katha Pollitt
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Here Comes Another ‘Crime Wave’
Will any candidate have the fortitude to link America’s crimes abroad with crime at home?
Alexander Cockburn
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Books & the Arts
Take the Money and Run
New biographies of Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon depict the two primeval capitalists in all their contradictory complexity.
Steve Fraser
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Made in USA
Two books about Kofi Annan illuminate the controlling relationship between the US and the United Nations.
Perry Anderson
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Soft-Core Sexism
If movies reflect our shared consensus about right and wrong, Black Snake Moan speaks volumes about twenty-first-century America.
Lakshmi Chaudhry
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