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Feature
Tim Robbins vs. the Baseball Hall of Fame
"I had been unaware that baseball was a Republican sport."
Tim Robbins
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Hour of Media Shame
One casualty of the war on Iraq has been the image of the Western media.
Kanak Mani Dixit
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Telecom Labor Rising
Union members are making links between customers' concerns and their own.
Steve Early and Larry Cohen
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Letter From Afghanistan
Little "nation-building" is under way, and the country is on the edge of civil war.
Scott Baldauf
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Editorial
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Saving Private Lynch
It was a drama too good to miss, made for TV, if not for Hollywood.
Annette Fuentes
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The War Democrats
The Democratic Leadership Council, the lost-inside-the-Beltway group that last fall championed the disastrous Democratic strategy of cozying up to the Bush Administration on military issues whi
John Nichols
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A Pox on America
In December, when hospitals in Atlanta and Richmond announced that they were opting out of the federal smallpox vaccination plan, opinion leaders reacted as if the physicians had enlisted with
Madeline Drexler
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The Firing of Peter Arnett
On March 19, shortly after Saddam Hussein defied President Bush's deadline to go into exile, Tom Brokaw of NBC broke into Law & Order, airing on the East Coast, to announce the start
Tom Goldstein
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Kommissar Kristol
William Kristol's April 7 editorial in The Weekly Standard denouncing critics of the war on Iraq as "anti-American" is startlingly reminiscent of the menacing directives issued for decad
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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Sacrifice Is for Suckers
In his address to the nation on the eve of the invasion of Iraq, George W.
Robert L. Borosage
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The Reckoning in Iraq
Emerging from their meeting in Belfast the day before US forces announced Baghdad had fallen, George W.
the Editors
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Column
History? What History?
Allowing the looting of Iraq's museums is another indication of our contempt for the Mideast -- and our unfitness to rule it
Robert Scheer
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Everything George Bush Needs to Know He Learned on the Playground
Let's say that from the east while you look south
An icy snowball hits you in the mouth.
You see the kid who did it run, the wretch,Calvin Trillin
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Privatization in Disguise
On April 6, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz spelled it out: There will be no role for the United Nations in setting up an interim government in Iraq.
Naomi Klein
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Taking the Cake
According to a recent Gallup Poll, 78 percent of white Americans supported invading Iraq, but only 29 percent of blacks.
Patricia J. Williams
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Yes, War Really Is Hell
The risks of war? There was the risk of being bombed if you had the misfortune to live in a neighborhood where US targeters thought Saddam Hussein might be located.
Alexander Cockburn
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Books & the Arts
The Little Mermaid’s Fortune-Teller
Refracted through your tide-washed hours, this prince
drifts through algid brine, kelp-wound: his ship has foundered
in your sky. For his sake you discover land, buildReginald Shepherd
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Among the Gilded Paupers
The quest for El Dorado, the mythic city of gold, is at the heart of the tumultuous history of the Americas.
Anderson Tepper
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The New Globetrotters
Globalization: Use this word in a sentence, especially as the cause of something bad, and you will get knowing nods all around.
Susan J. Douglas
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