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Feature
Sun-rise in New York
How the pugnacious, money-losing New York Sun has won friends and influenced conservatives.
Scott Sherman
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The Coming Party Realignment
Public anxiety over the economy could lead to a permanent restructuring of America’s political parties.
Lawrence Goodwyn
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The Establishment Rethinks Globalization
An unlikely dissident has proposed a new way to understand, and reform, the world economy.
William Greider
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Story Lines at Virginia Tech
The desire to impose a narrative on chaotic events leaves the meaning of the Virginia Tech shootings up for grabs.
Bruce Shapiro
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Curbing Abortion Rights
Newcomer Supreme Court Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito showed their true stripes by supporting a landmark late-term abortion ban.
Karen Houppert
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Silencing New Voices
What happens when a student magazine committed to fostering dialogue opens its pages to critical views on Israel?
Eyal Press
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Let It Be Some Other ‘Asian’
When the shooter at Virginia Tech was identified to be Korean American, other minorities heaved a sigh of relief. But should they?
Andrew Lam
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Israel’s Strategic Threat
Azmi Bishara, a member of the Knesset, has been charged with treason for speaking out against injustices committed by Israel.
Neve Gordon
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Tangled in Table Talk
Candidates are eager to “keep all options on the table,” but where’s the table?
Eric Kenning
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When Even a Sponge Feels the Squeeze
Working people have more in common with a sponge who lives in a pineapple than with the picture painted of job growth by the current Administration.
Annabelle Gurwitch
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US Silence Muzzles Vietnam’s Dissidents
Vietnam is experiencing its worst crackdown on human rights in decades, and US policy bears part of the blame.
Andrew Lam
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Exploiting Imus
The media’s superficial coverage of Don Imus avoids important questions about free speech and race.
Nicholas von Hoffman
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Editorial
Hiss In History
Although many historians have condemned Alger Hiss as a Soviet spy, the facts of his story remain obscure.
Victor Navasky
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Hiss in History
Although many historians have condemned Alger Hiss as a Soviet spy, the facts of his story remain obscure.
Victor Navasky
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Testing Time for Nigeria
The upcoming elections in Nigeria could signal an important turning point in Africa’s troubled road to democracy.
John Ghazvinian
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The French Connection
A new Reaganomics is taking hold in Europe, with grave implications for progressive politics everywhere.
Jordan Stancil
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Making Elections Fair
The modern campaign finance system is broken. Congress should pass laws that will fix it.
Ari Berman
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Pelosi and Diplomacy
By refusing to negotiate at home and abroad, Bush has become isolated and dangerous.
The Editors
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Column
The Ho Industry
In the larger context, the flap over Don Imus’s racial slur is only one tiny square in our dirty national quilt.
Alexander Cockburn
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On John McCain’s Much-Ridiculed Attempt to Use His Shorja Market Visit as Proof That Baghdad Is Being Pacified
McCain bought himself trouble in his visit to Baghdad.
Calvin Trillin
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Heck of a Job, Wolfie
Wolfowitz is in trouble. The World Bank leader got his girlfriend a pay raise, lied about it and alienated his staff. But don’t worry–Bush still thinks he’s doing a bang-up job.
Robert Scheer
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Books & the Arts
Humboldt’s Gift
The comic novel Measuring the World re-imagines the lives of two of the nineteenth century’s greatest scientists.
Mark M. Anderson
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Mission Impossible
Three Empires on the Nile, a lively retelling of Britain’s colonial exploits in Africa, conjures up images of wild-eyed Arabs waging jihad in the desert.
Maya Jasanoff
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Inevitable Revolutions
In William Dalrymple’s The Last Mughal, the 1857 Uprising against British rule in India is recast as a cross-border friendship gone sour.
Gyan Prakash
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