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Feature
Afghan Poppies Bloom
The war-ravaged, opium-dependent country lives in fear of a new drug war.
Christian Parenti
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Profits for Justice
It’s time to pay for the revolution ourselves.
Michael H. Shuman and Merrian Fuller
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Editorial
Passings
At the close of the old year this magazine lost three contributors, all distinguished and influential public intellectuals who brought passion and erudition to the search for a better world.
The Editors
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Letter From Ground Zero
As I followed the initial coverage of the tsunami in the Indian Ocean, I was reminded of a time in the early1980s when I spent some months researching the effects of a nuclear war– the thermal p
Jonathan Schell
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The Hero Within
If many strangers die all at once, as in the tragedy of the tsunami or the Rwanda massacre or a war like the one in Iraq, it is a moral problem, to be dealt with through politics or philosophy.
Earl Shorris
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The Country Doctor
It’s a time of sudden hope in the crisis between the Palestinians and Israelis, a weird time of moderation and calls for renewed negotiations.
Amy Wilentz
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Tsunami & US Priorities
As the death toll from the tsunami disaster continued to grow, the Bush Administration scrambled to answer widespread criticism that it responded too slowly and with too little aid for the victim
The Editors
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Gonzales: The Fight Is On
Click here for info on how you can help oppose Gonzales’s nomination.
Bruce Shapiro
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Column
Is Al Qaeda Just a Bush Boogeyman?
A BBC film challenges many articles of faith in the so-called war on terror.
Robert Scheer
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Bittersweet Bomblets
I was listening to Morning Edition on December 30, and up came one of those end-of-the-year heart-warmers that’s supposed to make you feel there’s hope for this old world yet.
Katha Pollitt
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The Pen of Swift, the Brush of Bosch… as Usual
The new year promises a rich manure of hypocrisy and bad faith.
Alexander Cockburn
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Assigning Responsibility
Defending Rumsfeld, Bush says Rummy’s great,
That as a planner he has been first rate–
Respected in the White House and the ranks.Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
Before Night Falls
The Chilean coup of 1973 was carried out with a Lone Ranger comic book, a bicycle and several cans of condensed milk.
Stuart Klawans
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Infinite Jest
This past March, on the closing day of an international literary conference held in Krakow, Poland, an elderly woman stood up before hundreds of scholars and admirers gathered to mark the 100th b
Benjamin Paloff
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And Justice for All
Affirmative action, in theory, is a matter of distributive justice, which is why liberals and progressives tend to look benevolently on it while conservatives and libertarians consider it a trave
Michael Bérubé
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Assigning Responsibility
Defending Rumsfeld, Bush says Rummy’s great,
That as a planner he has been first rate–
Respected in the White House and the ranks.Calvin Trillin
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The Hero Within
If many strangers die all at once, as in the tragedy of the tsunami or the Rwanda massacre or a war like the one in Iraq, it is a moral problem, to be dealt with through politics or philosophy.
Earl Shorris
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