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December 25, 2006 Issue
Stephen F. Cohen examines the collapse of the Soviet Union, Patricia J. Williams considers Michael Richards and other racists, Tony Hoagland…
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Editorial
Globalization must not be allowed to become financial imperialism: Capitalism's strongest-takes-all rule must give way to one that ensures that the poor have a place and a p...
Mohammad Yunus
After a memorable thirty-five years, Grace Schulman steps down as Nation poetry editor.
The Editors
A disenchanted diplomat who lost faith in the Bush-era State Department and resigned over the war in Iraq remains idealistic.
Scott Sherman
Hugo Chávez was re-elected not for his admiration of Castro but for presiding over a robust economy and aggressively improving the lot of Venezuela's poor.
Daphne Eviatar
Many Israelis and their US supporters are sleeping through the rise of the virulently anti-Arab Avigdor Lieberman, seen as a threat to democracy itself.
Ben Lynfield
The Iraq Study Group report may slow the impetus for immediate withdrawal from Iraq. Those who seek genuine military disengagement must make their voices heard.
The Editors
Column
We are fast, too fast, approaching the 3,000th American combat death in
Iraq.
Nicholas von Hoffman
Donald Rumsfeld pops over to Iraq to tell his final lies.
Robert Scheer
It's getting close to New Year's and time for annual awards. And in the 2006 Sweepstakes of Greed, the winners are...
Nicholas von Hoffman
The New York Times editors do a service by covering right-wingers: It would make sense to similarly cover progressives. Why don't they?
Eric Alterman
What, exactly, does America look like to people like Michael Richards, Mel Gibson and Richard Viguerie?
Patricia J. Williams
Feature
As the situation worsens and pressure builds for new US strategies, Iraqi groups are making tentative moves to stem sectarian violence.
David Enders
The Jordan-US free-trade agreement was supposed to be a labor-rights model. It's been a disaster.
Kristen Gillespie
The collapse of the Soviet Union was far from inevitable: A historic opportunity to democratize and marketize Russia by more gradual means was lost--and the people paid the price.
Stephen F. Cohen
Public paranoia and a credulous establishment media that have failed to aggressively report on 9/11 have allowed a cult-like ''Truth Movement'' to fill in the gaps.
Chris Hayes
Books & the Arts
Two red drinks--pure alcohol, with a maraschino cherry--in
the bar next door, deep in the afternoon. While I hide in my
Eleanor Lerman
The scowl is caught in jadeite.
The flattened face on a green bead
displayed in the orchestral light of the museum
also boards the train on Steinway Stree...
Eleanor Lerman
In the morning we put on our sharp blue suits and
go to hear the delegates speak through broken teeth.
These are the women whose names the press must be
Eleanor Lerman
Yes, indeed, that is my house that I am carrying around
on my back like a bullet-proof shell and yes, that sure is
my little dog walking a hard road in hard boot...
Eleanor Lerman
Eleanor Lerman's poems sing a song that is bravely gloomy, but they sing it with a fierce and earned dignity.
Tony Hoagland
The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin explores one of the most influential novels in American history.
Darryl Lorenzo Wellington
Walter Benn Michaels's The Trouble With Diversity challenges us to remove our race-tinted glasses and view the world in the class-based terms that, he argues, define it.
Robert S. Boynton
The collapse of the Soviet Union was far from inevitable: A historic opportunity to democratize and marketize Russia by more gradual means was lost--and the people paid the price.
Stephen F. Cohen
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