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Feature
Fixing the Rotten Corporate Barrel
States grant corporate charters; they should start taking some of them away.
John Cavanagh and Jerry Mander
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Hydrogen: Empowering the People
A new source of energy offers a way to wrench power from ever-fewer hands.
Jeremy Rifkin
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An Imperial Moment
In previous times of war fever, clear voices have called for a return to US ideals.
Jonathan Schell and John Maxwell Hamilton
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Lighting Labor’s Fire
While we wait for labor law reform, here are a few things unions can do.
Thomas Geoghegan and Barbara Ehrenreich
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Editorial
Going Down the Road
On election morning, I opened the front section of the New York Times and immediately got a bad feeling. Positioned prominently on page A3 was an eye-catching and ominous ad.
Jim Hightower
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Nation Notes
The 2002 Daniel Singer Millennium Prize has been awarded to Staughton Lynd, labor historian, lawyer and longtime radical activist.
The Editors
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Prize for Dolores Huerta
Dolores Huerta flouts the smug conventional wisdom that the 1960s are behind us. She won’t settle down and become an anachronism.
Tom Hayden
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Censorship 101
Annals of Higher Education: If recent events at Stanford and Harvard are any indication, the past decade’s earnest debates over “political correctness” are over, replaced by roughshod policing
Bruce Shapiro
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The US Caged–For Now
Alfred Hitchcock was fond of McGuffins–meaningless plot devices on which the characters obsess while the real, gruesome story moves on elsewhere.
Ian Williams
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The Kissinger Deceit
Henry Kissinger, who coddled state-sponsored terrorists, has been put in charge of the September 11 terrorism investigation. A proven liar has been assigned the task of finding the truth.
The Editors
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Into the Breach
The Democratic muddle continues in post-election hangover. The corporate wing of the party, the Democratic Leadership Council, once more urges the party to move even further to the right.
Robert L. Borosage
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Column
Microwaves, the ‘Underinsured’ & Drug Companies
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Dr. Marc Siegel
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What if the Hunt for ‘Evildoers’ Aimed at Us?
The negative response from the Bush Administration to the UN inspections in Iraq could be dismissed as childish pique were it not so telling an evocation of the image of the Ugly American making
Robert Scheer
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Rawls and Us
The late John Rawls was, by all accounts, a remarkably modest and generous person, much beloved by his friends and students, and profoundly uninterested in the kinds of fame and celebrity perks
Eric Alterman
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As Miss World Turns
The war between religious fanaticism and secular modernity is fought over women’s bodies.
Katha Pollitt
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Books & the Arts
Adeptations
Even without the aid of Smell-o-Vision, Charlie Kaufman’s bedroom comes across as dank.
Stuart Klawans
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Is It Still Rock & Roll to You?
A lot of nonsense has been written about the choreographer Twyla Tharp and her hit Broadway show, Movin’ Out, since it opened at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on October 24.
Diane Rafferty
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Diary of the Bridget Joneses
If single women have been told once, they’ve been told a thousand times: Don’t think you’re ever too successful or too young to have your ovaries shrivel up and die. Use ’em or lose ’em!
Ashley Nelson
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Who Will Tell the People?
Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers is Daniel Ellsberg’s story of his personal journey from being in the early 1960s a “dedicated cold warrior” who supported America’s e
David Rudenstine
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Rawls and Us
The late John Rawls was, by all accounts, a remarkably modest and generous person, much beloved by his friends and students, and profoundly uninterested in the kinds of fame and celebrity perks
Eric Alterman
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Letters