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February 18, 2008 Issue
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Feature
American voters, stuck in the world that Bush and Cheney have crafted, are sensing doom--and they want out.
With talk of a possible VP slot and a dedicated core of supporters, the former Arkansas governor's popularity shows the Christian right's not done yet.
The breach in the wall at Rafah dramatized the fact that an imprisoned population is at the point of starvation.
Few people watching the Firestone-sponsored Super Bowl halftime show are aware of the company's reputation in Liberia for harsh working conditions, child labor and environmental ruin.
The night after the funeral of her friend and mentor, Congresswoman Kang learns that all is not what it seems...
Here's why Obama is the left's best chance to take back the country.
A stressed-out Marine Corps sends its troops on repeated tours to Iraq and then tosses them out when they come back traumatized.
Editorial
Democratic leaders are poised to validate Bush's illegal surveillance, giving up even more ground than their Republican colleagues did. Why?
Mohandas K. Gandhi, killed sixty years ago, was a moment in the conscience of mankind. But the flame of hope his life inspired shapes our lives still.
His candidacy is ended, but John Edwards should continue his campaign to make economic justice in America the Democrats' core message.
A "green" Hummer, bad karma from Firestone tires at the Super Bowl, MIA at the Oscars, remembering Milton Wolff.
Unelected insiders may well hold the key to the 2008 Democratic nomination. How did things become so undemocratic?
What happens when the President gives a State of the Union address and nobody listens?
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Column
Curb your enthusiasm. No matter who wins, we can't reverse the damage of Bush's bloated military budget.
A Patriots Super Bowl win was written in the stars. But every once in a while, the double-digit underdog can win.
OK, three-quarters of what he says is wacky. But his view of the Fed's contribution to rampant inflation is right on the money.
Bush turns out to be the undertaker of the free market's false promises to ordinary Americans.
The magazine walks into a trap labeled "political correctness," "left-wing anti-Semitism" and "multiculturalist Islam love."
Change may be the mantra, but continuity is the undertow.
Torch song for the big dog
Books & the Arts
The best location for Lawrence Weiner's conceptual art is in the viewer's own imagination.
Mohandas K. Gandhi, killed sixty years ago, was a moment in the conscience of mankind. But the flame of hope his life inspired shapes our lives still.
Chinese hearts, minds and pocketbooks get a lot of attention from the Eastern and Western consumer markets.
A new collection of short pieces by the prodigious and wide-ranging critic Luc Sante doubles as a history of Modernism's outlaws.
I sit here it is 4:00
Should I say it?
Death occurred to me
And the fit over bounded
My physical thought
As I lie here
New memoirs from Israel and Palestine offer the chance not to escape the political conflict but to grasp the way it impacts daily life.
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Letters
InsensiNativity
Jersey City, N.J.