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Feature
The Copenhagen Disaccord
Activists are figuring out what went wrong at the climate summit and what to do next.
Mark Hertsgaard
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The Transformation of Hamas
Palestine’s Islamic movement has subtly changed its uncompromising posture on Israel.
Fawaz A. Gerges
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Imposing Middle East Peace
Forceful outside intervention is the only alternative to an unstable and dangerous status quo.
Henry Siegman
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How to Save Journalism
The patriotic case for government action.
John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney
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Editorial
Blackwater Injustice
A federal judge has dismissed all charges against the five Blackwater operatives accused of gunning down fourteen innocent Iraqis in Baghdad’s Nisour Square in 2007.
Jeremy Scahill
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Looting Social Security
The Washington Post has run a “news” article about deficit reduction produced by The Fiscal Times, an outfit backed by Social Security demonizer Pete Peterson.
William Greider
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The Terror Trap
The attempted airliner attack on Christmas Day demonstrates that the best antidote to terrorism is not military action but good intelligence, police work and appropriate security measures.
The Editors
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David Levine
David Levine, who died on December 29 at 83, was best known for his brilliant, biting, crosshatched caricatures of literary and political figures, which until his vision gave out had appeared reg
The Editors
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Column
Don’t Blame China
In the great American tradition of finding foreign scapegoats for our problems, the hunt is on to somehow hold China responsible for the misery that Wall Street financiers inflicted upon the world.
Robert Scheer
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The Decade for Women: Forward, Backward, Sideways?
Feminist highs and lows of the first decade of the 2000s.
Katha Pollitt
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From Genesis to Gaia
If a conclusive disrespecting of Genesis was required, wouldn’t you think R. Crumb was the man for the job?
Alexander Cockburn
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Books & the Arts
Imaginariums
James Cameron’s Avatar, Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and more.
Stuart Klawans
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After Macondo: On Evelio Rosero
In Evelio Rosero’s The Armies, war is like the Law in Kafka: cruel, implacable and coldly divine.
Ben Ehrenreich
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History Unforeseen: On Sylvia Townsend Warner
In the fiction of Sylvia Townsend Warner, historical change is accidental and almost imperceptible, but for all that no less decisive.
David Carroll Simon
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