February 20, 2006 Issue

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Senators Mull an Internet With Restrictions

Telephone and cable bigwigs pitched their vision of a pay-to-play Internet to the Senate Commerce Committee Tuesday, and web visionaries pushed back. Lawmakers seemed baffled by the complexity.
Celia Viggo Wexler and Dawn Holian
Fury Over Foreigners

Western cartoons deemed insulting to Islam are only part of what is fueling mob frenzy in Afghanistan. Growing rage against the presence of foreign troops and frustration with ineffectual aid programs are feeding the flames.
Christian Parenti
Georgia’s King Tribute Rings Hollow

Abolishing the death penalty was one of Coretta Scott King’s signature issues. The irony is that Georgia remains one of the leading practitioners of the death penalty.
Patrick Mulvaney
Hey, Kids: Spying Is Fun!

Using cartoons, games and kid-friendly websites, the federal intelligence community is seeking to win the hearts and minds of America’s children.
Simon Maxwell Apter
The Value of a Number

Racial tensions between black and Latino players have been exposed in the ongoing controversy over how to honor Roberto Clemente.
Dave Zirin
The JFK Lawyers’ Conspiracy

Forty-two years later, assassination buffs continue to attack the validity of the Warren Report.
Max Holland
Can Justice Be Trusted?

The Justice Department meddled in a case against Jack Abramoff in Guam in 2002; last week, Bush nominated the current Abramoff prosecutor to the federal bench. Can the DOJ credibly continue this investigation?
Ari Berman
Abramoff’s Evangelical Soldiers

Leaders of the Christian right are paying the price as evidence mounts of their complicity in a sordid GOP gambling-industry scheme.
Max Blumenthal
Exile on K Street

Scandals abound in the smoking remains of the Alexander Strategy Group.
Jeremy Scahill

Editorial

Reap the Whirlwind

The rise of Samuel Alito and the death of Coretta Scott King mark the end of an era and the abandonment of our civil rights legacy by both political parties.
Bruce Shapiro
The Leap Forward

Marshall Arisman
Coretta Scott King

The widows of great men either gracefully retire from history’s stage or take their own lonely road. Coretta Scott King had little hesitancy about carrying on her husband’s work.
The Editors
A Warning Bell

Democrats can capitalize on the current economic stall and gain control of Congress with a return to bedrock principles: creating jobs, restoring incomes and rescuing families from debt.
William Greider
NSA Spying Myths

The Bush Administration has propagated five myths in its current campaign to rationalize its illegal domestic spying program.
David Cole
The Hamas Triumph

What if the West responded to Hamas’s victory not with sanctions but with a commitment to resume negotiations from where they left off in 2000?
Graham Usher
Empire vs. Republic

Instead of Bush’s imperial presidency, America needs the vision of Congressional progressives: rapid withdrawal from Iraq, universal healthcare, campaign reform and a shift to renewable energy.
The Editors
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Column

Pension? What Pension?

The stampede is on in corporate America to freeze or pare back pension benefits. And that will leave most of us out in the cold.
Nicholas von Hoffman
Bush’s War on the Poor

George W. Bush’s irrational governance has wrought yet another outrage: The Administration’s $2.77-trillion budget request.
Robert Scheer
Lies About Blowjobs, Bad. Wars? Not So Much.

Despite his lies and incompetence, Bush remains more popular with elite media than Clinton or any other political leader who sought to save us from the Iraq catastrophe. Why won’t they connect the dots?
Eric Alterman
All the King’s Horses…

Worry about the CIA’s new Open Source Center, which aims to piece together all sorts of unclassified information to create a broad picture of where trouble is likely to arise.
Patricia J. Williams
I Dreamt That George W. Bush Adopted James Frey’s 3-Step Program–Denial, Larry King and Oprah–To Get to the Truth About the War in Iraq

Maybe Oprah can get the truth out of Bush–just don’t try to screen her questions.
Calvin Trillin

Books & the Arts

The Facts

In Arthur & George, Julian Barnes mixes fact and fiction, linking Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with a wrongfully convicted Victorian author.
Terry Eagleton
The Race to War

Lost Battalions tells the story of two US Army regiments of the American Expeditionary Force, the struggle to buy citizenship through the self-sacrifice of war.
David Levering Lewis
Coretta Scott King

The widows of great men either gracefully retire from history’s stage or take their own lonely road. Coretta Scott King had little hesitancy about carrying on her husband’s work.
The Editors
Empire vs. Republic

Instead of Bush’s imperial presidency, America needs the vision of Congressional progressives: rapid withdrawal from Iraq, universal healthcare, campaign reform and a shift to renewable energy.
The Editors
Heidegger Made Kosher

Two new books explore the work of philosophers Emmanuel Levinas and Martin Heidegger.
Richard Wolin
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February 20, 2006 Issue

Feature

Telephone and cable bigwigs pitched their vision of a pay-to-play Internet to the Senate Commerce Committee Tuesday, and web visionaries pushed back. Lawmakers seemed baffled by the complexity.

Western cartoons deemed insulting to Islam are only part of what is fueling mob frenzy in Afghanistan. Growing rage against the presence of foreign troops and frustration with ineffectual aid programs are feeding the flames.

Abolishing the death penalty was one of Coretta Scott King’s signature issues. The irony is that Georgia remains one of the leading practitioners of the death penalty.

Using cartoons, games and kid-friendly websites, the federal intelligence community is seeking to win the hearts and minds of America’s children.

Racial tensions between black and Latino players have been exposed in the ongoing controversy over how to honor Roberto Clemente.

Forty-two years later, assassination buffs continue to attack the validity of the Warren Report.

The Justice Department meddled in a case against Jack Abramoff in Guam in 2002; last week, Bush nominated the current Abramoff prosecutor to the federal bench. Can the DOJ credibly continue this investigation?

Leaders of the Christian right are paying the price as evidence mounts of their complicity in a sordid GOP gambling-industry scheme.

Scandals abound in the smoking remains of the Alexander Strategy Group.

Editorial

The rise of Samuel Alito and the death of Coretta Scott King mark the end of an era and the abandonment of our civil rights legacy by both political parties.

The widows of great men either gracefully retire from history’s stage or take their own lonely road. Coretta Scott King had little hesitancy about carrying on her husband’s work.

Democrats can capitalize on the current economic stall and gain control of Congress with a return to bedrock principles: creating jobs, restoring incomes and rescuing families from debt.

The Bush Administration has propagated five myths in its current campaign to rationalize its illegal domestic spying program.

What if the West responded to Hamas’s victory not with sanctions but with a commitment to resume negotiations from where they left off in 2000?

Instead of Bush’s imperial presidency, America needs the vision of Congressional progressives: rapid withdrawal from Iraq, universal healthcare, campaign reform and a shift to renewable energy.

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Column

The stampede is on in corporate America to freeze or pare back pension benefits. And that will leave most of us out in the cold.

George W. Bush’s irrational governance has wrought yet another outrage: The Administration’s $2.77-trillion budget request.

Despite his lies and incompetence, Bush remains more popular with elite media than Clinton or any other political leader who sought to save us from the Iraq catastrophe. Why won’t they connect the dots?

Worry about the CIA’s new Open Source Center, which aims to piece together all sorts of unclassified information to create a broad picture of where trouble is likely to arise.

Maybe Oprah can get the truth out of Bush–just don’t try to screen her questions.

Books & the Arts

In Arthur & George, Julian Barnes mixes fact and fiction, linking Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with a wrongfully convicted Victorian author.

Lost Battalions tells the story of two US Army regiments of the American Expeditionary Force, the struggle to buy citizenship through the self-sacrifice of war.

The widows of great men either gracefully retire from history’s stage or take their own lonely road. Coretta Scott King had little hesitancy about carrying on her husband’s work.

Instead of Bush’s imperial presidency, America needs the vision of Congressional progressives: rapid withdrawal from Iraq, universal healthcare, campaign reform and a shift to renewable energy.

Two new books explore the work of philosophers Emmanuel Levinas and Martin Heidegger.

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