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Feature
John McCain’s Last Stand
He’ll probably fend off J.D. Hayworth, but in order to win he’s lost most of his principles.
Marc Cooper
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Greenwashing Nativism
From climate change to deforestation, FAIR is pushing xenophobia as good eco-politics.
Andrew Ross
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Baby Baiting
Senator Lindsey Graham is the latest to join the assault on birthright citizenship, announcing that he may introduce a constitutional amendment banning automatic citizenship to the children of immigrants who "come here to drop a child." But his argument rests on a total fallacy.
Robin Templeton
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WikiLeaks in Baghdad
Soldiers involved in the "Collateral Murder" video have come forward to tell their story.
Sarah Lazare and Ryan Harvey
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Citizens Unite Against ‘Citizens United’
MoveOn.org is leading a coalition of advocacy groups to overturn the Supreme Court decision.
Ari Berman
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Editorial
Getting Out of Afghanistan
WikiLeaks’ release of 92,000 classified military documents reveals that the war in Afghanistan is in even worse shape than we suspected.
The Editors
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Noted.
Katrina vanden Heuvel on the passing of Iris Dornfeld McWilliams; Rajeshree Sisodia on new accountability for energy firms.
The Editors
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Race, Lies and Videotape
The Shirley Sherrod saga reveals just how entrenched the myth of reverse racism is.
Richard Kim
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Colorado’s Choice
Populist challenger Andrew Romanoff would ordinarily be expected to win Colorado’s US Senate Democratic primary. But incumbent Michael Bennet is backed by an overflowing campaign war chest—and an endorsement by Barack Obama.
John Nichols
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Column
The Farmer in the Dell
Have we learned the right lessons from the mistreatment of Shirley Sherrod?
Patricia J. Williams
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Journalism’s Age of Shame
Andrew Breitbart’s schtick should be familiar by now. The same techniques used to defame Shirley Sherrod and discredit the NAACP were employed to destroy ACORN.
Eric Alterman
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Books & the Arts
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The High Wire
In the stories of Deborah Eisenberg, life keeps piling up, unsolved and unsolvable.
Peter C. Baker
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