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Feature
Sudan Prepares to Break Apart
Finally, after decades of catastrophic civil war, Africa may give birth to a new nation.
Tristan McConnell
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How the Afghan Counterinsurgency Threatens Pakistan
Our war has radicalized Pakistanis, turning many against the West and their own government.
Anatol Lieven
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Matthew Hoh’s Afghanistan: An Insider Talks
Why did the senior State Department representative resign from his Afghanistan post?
Barbara Koeppel
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Climate Clash in Cancún
China is warming up to the fight against climate change, but it’s still cooling to US demands.
Lucia Green-Weiskel
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Tossing the Afghan COIN
The US military’s reinvented counterinsurgency turns out to be the same old brutal game.
Michael A. Cohen
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Editorial
Noted.
Esther Kaplan on the GOP’s message to miners; John Nichols on Bernie Sanders’ filibuster; Jennifer O’Mahony on the UK student protests; Michael Tracey on millenials and politics.
Various Contributors
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Health Reform Teach-In
Educating Americans about this administration’s healthcare successes is easier than Obama thinks.
Harvey Sloane
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The Cancún Compromise
The agreements reached at the Cancún climate summit oblige all nations to reduce future emissions. The challenge now is to generate the political pressure on national leaders to accept realistic targets.
Mark Hertsgaard
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Obama’s Afghan Mission Creep
With the US set to remain in Afghanistan until 2014, the war has taken on a life of its own, disconnected from any strategic goal.
The Editors
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Column
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What’s the Story, President Obama?
Obama’s flawed tax compromise is just the latest result of the Democrats’ failure to clearly explain their vision for this country’s economic future.
Eric Alterman
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How to Be President in a Fact-Free America
When Obama can’t convince American conservatives of verifiable facts, what hope does he have of convincing them to support his policies?
Gary Younge
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Books & the Arts
An Inventory of the Missing: On Frederic Tuten
Frederic Tuten’s Self Portraits is a backward glance on life that’s vital, wistful and filled with sweet ache.
Ben Ehrenreich
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Options Open: On Kurt Schwitters and Blinky Palermo
Kurt Schwitters and Blinky Palermo made art that was deliberately elusive, that does not want to be pinned down.
Barry Schwabsky
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One of the Various: On Thomas Sayers Ellis
The best poems in Skin, Inc. have an excellent unconscious feeling, even when the news is bad and Thomas Sayers Ellis knows nobody is going to want to listen.
Jordan Davis
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Letters
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