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Feature
Endgame in Korea
On a sparkling Indian Summer day fifteen years ago, I was waiting in front of the Pyongyang Hotel with a British documentary producer.
Bruce Cumings
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WWJD? Protest Wal-Mart!
Support was provided by the Fund for Investigative Journalism and the Dick Goldensohn Fund, and is gratefully acknowledged. Liza Featherstone is writing a book about Wal-Mart and women workers, to be published by Basic Books in late 2004.
Liza Featherstone
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Report From Gujarat
Abida Bano sits on the floor of a crowded makeshift relief building in Ahmedebad, the largest city in Gujarat, holding her 10-month-old daughter.
Miranda Kennedy
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There Is No Silver Lining
With Republicans in full control in Washington, next year’s prospects are grim.
David Helvarg, Jack Newfield and Jeffrey Chester
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Antiwar Labor Pains
Unions are edging into the peace movement, but they are still minor players.
Marc Cooper
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Editorial
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Call and Answer
Robert Bly, with David Ray, founded American Writers Against the Vietnam War in 1967; it sponsored many rallies and readings against the war. He is preparing a similar group to do readings against the Iraq war.
Robert Bly
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Banishing Bilingualism
Within the next decade, 30-40 percent of current public school teachers in the United States will retire, opening up more than 700,000 teaching positions.
Herbert Kohl and Susan Katz
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Gore Story
“Debacle 2002” is already in reruns but has been replaced by a new dramatic series called “Zero 4,” which chronicles some familiar characters and a few new faces running for President.
William Greider
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Israel’s Choice
Returning to Israel after an extended absence can be a disturbing experience.
Neve Gordon
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Age of Anxiety
A spate of recent terrorism events–the bombing of a French tanker, the destruction of a nightclub in Bali, an FBI warning of a “spectacular” Al Qaeda action and the surfacing of a new Osama bi
The Editors
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Column
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Dr. Marc Siegel
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Straw Liberals and False Prophets
One big problem with liberal and leftist debate about Al Qaeda or Iraq is that it rarely seems to have much to do with Al Qaeda or Iraq.
Eric Alterman
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Raise a Glass to the Stay-at-Home Voter?
Raise a Glass to the Stay-at-Home Voter?
How dismal was election night 2002?
Katha Pollitt
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Shmeer the Kids In
(An Upper East Side Sea Chanty
Sung to the tune of ‘Blow the Man Down’)Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
Almodóvar’s World
November has been melodrama month at the movies. First Todd Haynes brought us Far From Heaven, which he ought to have called Imitation of Imitation.
Stuart Klawans
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My Guitar Gently Weeps
“I was in a highly unshaved and tatty state,” John Lennon said of his 1966 meeting with a certain conceptual artist, then mounting her first show at London’s Indica Gallery.
Alex Abramovich
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The Humanitarian Temptation
In 2000, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan posed a question to the Millennium Summit of the UN: “If humanitarian intervention is, indeed, an unacceptable assault on sovereignty, how s
Ian Williams
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In Cold Type
The current Salmagundi (Summer-Fall 2002) has a section on what it calls “Femicons” (the category includes articles on Emma Goldman, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath and Willa Cather); but
Amy Wilentz
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