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August 28, 2006 Issue
Patricia Williams looks at children as instruments of peace, Daniel Tichenor plumbs the history of American nativist movements, Wayne S. Smi…
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Editorial
As a tentative ceasefire takes hold between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, the world--and the United States in particular--should ponder lessons learned and the price we will pay...
Saree Makdisi
An appreciation of one of the last members of the left's "greatest
generation," known for her physical courage, warmth and intelligence, who
spent a lifetime arguing eloquently for...
Mike Davis
Murray Bookchin, who died on July 30 at 85, was a protean son of the
left whose intellectual hegira took him from Communism through
Trotskyism, anarchism and social ecology.
The Editors
As Iraq burns and Castro recovers, the Bush Administration's schemes to
further "Cuba's transition to democracy" ring more hollow than ever.
Wayne S. Smith
The nation must address the working-class anxieties underlying the anti-Hispanic sentiments now rising in Middle America--and Congress must pass an enlightened immigration bill tha...
The Editors
The inactivity of the Bush Administration on the Israel-Hezbollah
conflict is armchair warfare against the interests of all. For peace,
we must press for an immediate cease-fire.
The Editors
As the Democratic Party embraces Ned Lamont, it must also embrace
his antiwar message: It proved a winning strategy for Connecticut, and
will be for the midterm elections.
The Editors
As the United States decries the private militias of Lebanon and
Iraq, GOP-connected, privately owned global mercenary firms receive
blank checks and little oversight.
Jeremy Scahill
Column
Democrats must transcend all their intraparty squabbles over the war in Iraq and focus on the obligation of politicians to be honest with the public.
Robert Scheer
As the world grows short of oil, nations in search of a viable energy
policy should take a lesson from Cuba, which turned to sustainable
agriculture to offset its own oil crisis.
Nicholas von Hoffman
Investigators have known for a decade about terrorist plots to bring down passenger jets with liquid explosives. So why, all of a sudden, did Bush ban most liquids on flights?
Robert Scheer
Four wars at once? Led by this crew? Are the people who run this
country, enabled by neo-con pundits, dangerously out of their minds?
Eric Alterman
Teaching children to speak across boundaries is the essence of what
integration is all about. It carries all the urgency of global peace.
Patricia J. Williams
Feature
At a time when free expression and the right to privacy are under
attack, librarians are on the front lines protecting our constitutional
rights every day. Here are five who are ma...
Joseph Huff-Hannon
A recent rally at the World Trade Center site displayed anti-immigration activists' latest tactics: distorting the truth and exploiting national security concerns.
Ali Winston
By concealing for a near-lifetime that he had served in the Waffen SS, literary giant Günter Grass treated himself with an indulgence he did not hesitate to deem a moral defec...
Norman Birnbaum
Senator Ted Stevens has no idea how the Internet works, but he's asking Congress to remake it to suit the interests of the telecommunications industry. Can progressives apply the p...
Jeffrey Chester
There's something unnerving about USA Basketball's motivational tactics
for the 2006 world championship--encouraging players to spend time with
wounded Iraq veterans, in hopes of e...
Dave Zirin
From all official statements so far, the August 10 terror plot
uncovered in Britain was the biggest thing since 9/11. But
then again, perhaps it wasn't. It's not too early to ask t...
James K. Galbraith
Young, US-born Hispanics who took to the streets to push for immigrant
rights are hoping to become a potent political force in the midterm
elections and beyond.
Paloma Esquivel
American white supremacist groups have a long and ugly history of using
anxieties over immigration as a recruitment tool. It's happening again,
with a vengeance.
Chip Berlet
If we are to survive and prosper in an oil-short world, we must not only
think outside the box--we must get rid of the box. We must abandon the
long-held idea that growth is the pa...
Nicholas von Hoffman
After thirty-one days of war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, and more than 1,000 dead, the United Nations has finally passed a cease-fire. Now what?
Ian Williams
The easy invocation of "terrorism"--whether by pundits or political leaders--is not just sloppy use of language. It is precisely targeted phrasing intended to terrorize dissent.
Ian Williams
Pro-Lieberman Beltway pundits who whined about progressive bloggers and sounded noisy alarms about the disastrous impact of a Lamont win will have a lot of explaining to do come No...
Eric Boehlert
The Minutemen have been transformed from an extremist "citizen border
patrol" to part of the neocon establishment. Has their leader sold out,
or bought in?
Susy Buchanan and David Holthouse
American history is marked by waves of immigrants--from Germans in the
eighteenth century to Mexicans in the twenty-first--and by nativist
backlashes against them.
Daniel Tichenor
CNN pundit Lou Dobbs has made himself a "specialist" in channeling
nativist, nationalist and even white supremacist rhetoric.
Daphne Eviatar
Welcome to Nashville, Tennessee, the unlikely symbol of the biggest
American immigrant resettlement since the Industrial Revolution.
It's also the white-hot nexus of the new Americ...
Bob Moser
Books & the Arts
Looking for a blast of hot air? Two intrepid literary critics venture
deep into the steaming, muddy jungles of the Fox News pundit's
award-losing prose.
Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer
By concealing for a near-lifetime that he had served in the Waffen SS, literary giant Günter Grass treated himself with an indulgence he did not hesitate to deem a moral defec...
Norman Birnbaum
Every other week, in the pages of this magazine, Katha Pollitt collects
her thoughts in her column, "Subject to Debate." To say that Pollitt's
column is a hotbed of feminist...
Sarah Goldstein
Reviews of Little Miss Sunshine, Quinceañera,
My Country, My Country, The Pusher Trilogy and The
Bridesmaid.
Stuart Klawans
Noam Chomsky, Gore Vidal, Toni Morrison and other luminaries call
to resist Israel's undeclared political aim: the liquidation of the
Palestinian state.
The Nation
Nikolai Bukharin's Philosophical Arabesques is more than a
cul-de-sac on the road from Marx to Stalin; the book defines a
political path still not taken.
Ronald Grigor Suny
Revolution on My
Mind is a new analysis of personal diaries written in the shadow of
Stalin.
Sheila Fitzpatrick
American history is marked by waves of immigrants--from Germans in the
eighteenth century to Mexicans in the twenty-first--and by nativist
backlashes against them.
Daniel Tichenor
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