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February 12, 2007 Issue
Walter Mosley considers the sound of silenced voters, Christopher Hayes asks what Netroots do now, Stuart Klawans reviews China Blue.
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Editorial
The Polish writer who died January 23 chronicled coups and revolutions with eloquence and compassion; empathy was his most potent journalistic tool.
Magdalena Rittenhouse
Outrage over excessive rewards for incompetent executives could spark the Democratic Congress to action.
Morton Mintz
The legal philosophy of Louis Brandeis illuminates some of the compelling legal issues of our own times.
Charles A. Miller
Voting is a privilege and a responsibility that every American bears. Allowing prisoners to vote will keep us honest.
Walter Mosley
Now that Democrats have real power, netroots progressives need to choose their issues--and their tactics.
Chris Hayes
Bush's about-face on warrantless surveillance demonstrates what a difference a Democratic majority makes.
David Cole
Beyond merely opposing escalation, lawmakers are pushing tough measures to withdraw troops and defund the war.
John Nichols
Jim Webb's gutsy response to Bush's unconvincing State of the Union message bodes well for the Democratic Party.
The Editors
Column
Looking for reasons to impeach the President? Listen to the testimony in Scooter Libby's perjury trial.
Robert Scheer
The poisonous William Kristol's consistently wrong on Iraq. Why does he remain a media darling?
Eric Alterman
Feature
One big and underreported reason for Lebanon's slide toward civil war is blowback from Iraq. Fearing the sectarian bloodbath in Iraq and Iran's growing regional influence, Lebanese...
Mohamad Bazzi
In Kenya's Yala Swamp, where Senator Barack Obama traces his African roots, an Oklahoma-based company has wrecked a rich and delicate ecosystem.
Laura Flanders
Pressure is building to expand the legal definition of family beyond the boundaries of gay or straight marriage.
Beccah Golubock Watson
If the holiest day on the American calendar is Super Bowl Sunday, Vince Lombardi and Joe Namath were its early saints. So what does that make Pat Tillman?
Robert Lipsyte
Peace activists and military families in DC Saturday were less angry than than resolute that the American people sent a clear signal in November to end the US occupation in Iraq.
Karen Houppert
South Korea is bristling over terms of the Bush Administration's proposed free-trade agreement, and so are progressives in Congress.
Mark Winne
Unfortunately, the Constitution's impeachment clause only works for criminals, not the grossly incompetent.
Sanford Levinson
Between Iraq, Katrina and wiretapping, the case for removing Bush is overwhelming.
Elizabeth Holtzman
The South is more purple than red, and Democrats don't need to sell their souls to win it back.
Bob Moser
Books & the Arts
If the holiest day on the American calendar is Super Bowl Sunday, Vince Lombardi and Joe Namath were its early saints. So what does that make Pat Tillman?
Robert Lipsyte
The Polish writer who died January 23 chronicled coups and revolutions with eloquence and compassion; empathy was his most potent journalistic tool.
Magdalena Rittenhouse
The legal philosophy of Louis Brandeis illuminates some of the compelling legal issues of our own times.
Charles A. Miller
China Blue is a surprisingly fair-minded documentary about teenagers working in a jeans factory in China.
Stuart Klawans
Dancing in the Streets is a history of outbreaks of collective joy from Dionysus to the Grateful Dead.
Terry Eagleton
The narrator of Martin Amis's House of Meetings describes the collapse of his soul through forty years of Soviet history.
Daniel Swift
Vikram Chandra's epic crime novel Sacred Games is an infernal history of India in the last decade.
Carl Bromley
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