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Feature
Iraqi Civilians Brace for a Surge
Sunni civilians have reason to fear more fighting, not only from a potential surge of US troops but also Kurdish militias mobilized by the Iraqi government.
David Enders
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Ominous Signs of a Wider War
The naming of Adm. William Fallon to replace Gen. John Abizaid as head of Centcom is an ominous sign that Bush is preparing for a wider war.
Michael T. Klare
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New Jersey Could Kill the Death Penalty
The Garden State has become the center of gravity in the fight to abolish capital punishment.
Patrick Mulvaney
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Incarceration Nation
America now leads the world in the number of people behind bars. But hope is emerging that state governments and the courts will seek to hold back the hand of the carceral state.
Silja J.A. Talvi
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Blue-ing the West
Democrats are on the verge of a fundamental shift in the regional balance of political power.
Sasha Abramsky
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Oversight Returns
A Congress that takes the Constitution seriously can force the White House to do the same.
John Nichols
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Ten Blockbuster Hearings
Tell us how progressives in Congress can promote bold new initiatives, end an illegal war and call an abusive President to account.
Chuck Collins
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Top 10 for a More Perfect Union
Ten good bills await passage that could make a real difference.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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For America’s Sake
Its time our leaders recognize Americans hold a set of values that contradict the conservative agenda that has dominated politics for a generation.
Bill Moyers
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Editorial
Khalilzad: Good News and Bad for UN
Zalmay Khalilzad promises be a more effective US ambassador to the UN, but is that a good thing?
Ian Williams
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A Democratic Anomaly
When senators leave office, voters should choose their replacements.
John Nichols
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Johnny Populist
John Edwards’s hard-edged populism could be an antidote to the surreal Bush years.
Bob Moser
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Destabilizing the Horn
Undeterred by blunders in Iraq, Bush opens another battlefront in Somalia.
Salim Lone
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The Saddam Spectacle
A videotaped hanging does not bring justice to Saddam’s victims, living or dead.
Bruce Shapiro
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The Democrats’ First Test
Do the Dems have the vision to force Bush to pull back on Iraq and rebuild the economy?
The Editors
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Column
An Army at Peril
The surge is Bush’s last throw of the dice. If it fails, he may decimate an exhausted Army and leave the nation without reserves.
Nicholas von Hoffman
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Bush’s Theater of the Absurd
Bush is the insolent star of an absurd spectacle, seeking to escalate a failed war that Congress and the people oppose.
Robert Scheer
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Tax the Rich, End the War
Congress should levy a Victory Over Terror tax on the superrich which would expire once our troops are safely home.
Nicholas von Hoffman
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Greater Than Warren Harding?
On Gerald Ford’s greatness and the New York Times‘s ghastly coverage of Iraq.
Alexander Cockburn
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Books & the Arts
Tillie Olsen: 1912-2007
Celebrating the eloquence of the feminist, activist and writer in whose work memory, history, poetry and prophecy converge.
John Leonard
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The General in His Labyrinth
Reviews of Guillermo del Toro’s dizzying Pan’s Labyrinth and part two of Clint Eastwood’s World War II opus, Letters From Iwo Jima.
Stuart Klawans
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Hurricane Carter
Jimmy Carter has been vilified for saying things about the occupation in his new book that appear regularly in Israeli newspapers.
Henry Siegman
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On What Became of Mathew Brady’s Battle Photographs
Sunlight and plant light
glass and stain
the campaign the conflict
the dead frozen in air
the sun and the sweat
the swell of fetid fleshPeter Gizzi
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Greater Than Warren Harding?
On Gerald Ford’s greatness and the New York Times‘s ghastly coverage of Iraq.
Alexander Cockburn
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