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January 30, 2006 Issue

Mark Hertsgaard explores Green power in Germany, Alexander Cockburn reveals new details of FBI spying on Edward Said and Stuart Klawans revi…

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Editorial

In Fact…

Remembering Frank Wilkinson, American hero; full disclosure on Jack Abramoff; Dave Letterman confronts Bill O'Reilly; a new baby for Nation contributing editors Liza Feather...

The Editors

Palestinian Dilemmas

Will Palestinians be compelled to live by Ariel Sharon's repressive vision or will they compel Israel to accept genuine self-determination for the Palestinian people?

Mouin Rabbani

Israel After Sharon

Suddenly, the Sharon era is over. And Sharon's centrist Kadima Party may emerge as the dominant force after the March 28 elections.

Hillel Schenker

Newt’s New Con

No voice rings as hollow as Newt Gingrich's on the GOP culture of corruption. Incredibly, the media are swallowing his story.

David Sirota

Kickback Mountain

Cleaning up Congress after the Abramoff scandal involves far more than limits on gifts and perks. It requires barring the 'legalized bribery' of major campaign contributions.

The Editors

Column

Meanwhile, Back in Afghanistan

It's appalingly clear Team Bush is unwilling to do the hard work it takes to make Afghanistan the functioning nation it was before cold war games tore it apart.

Robert Scheer

Girls Against Boys?

Women now outnumber men at colleges and universities, but higher education has not become the fluffy pink playpen of feminism that some conservatives envision.

Katha Pollitt

The FBI and Edward Said

The FBI was probably tapping Edward Said's phone right up until the day he died. Details are emerging of a surveillance effort that extended for nearly thirty years.

Alexander Cockburn

A Member of Congress Tries to Recall Jack Abramoff

Calvin Trillin

Letters

MCCAIN TORTURE BILL A BUST

Washington, DC

Mark Weisbrot and Our Readers and Lila Azam Zanganeh

Feature

Bachelet’s Big Win

Michelle Bachelet's election as Chile's first female president represents many things for her fellow citizens: the certainty of political continuity, the possibility of change and ...

Laila Weir

Monetary Zombies

We're on our way to being a society of economic zombies, half dead and half alive, buried in debt but prevented by credit card companies from declaring bankruptcy.

Nicholas von Hoffman

Confirmation and Crisis

If the Alito confirmation hearings were a test of Democratic strategy, the Alito vote to come is a test of moderate Republican integrity and mettle.

Bruce Shapiro

Unequipped to Cure

Vaccine production in the United States is in an alarming condition--with drug-makers wedded to outmoded techniques and government more focused on terror than pandemics.

Dr. Marc Siegel

Everyone’s a Reformer

For a long time on Capitol Hill, no one was interested in lobbying reform. Now everybody wants to get in on the act.

Ari Berman

Adrift in Egypt

A brutal raid on an encampment of refugees in Cairo has focused the world's attention on the netherworld Sudanese occupy in Egypt.

Negar Azimi

Compromised and Corrupted

Samuel Alito and his handlers have crafted a disingenuous campaign that reeks of ethical compromise, bending Senate rules, bending the truth and compromising the confirmation proce...

Bruce Shapiro

Right-Wing Revelation

Samuel Alito's blunt testimony on international law revealed the extremity of his judicial philosophy and carried profound implications for rulings he might make.

Bruce Shapiro

Working-Class Hero

While the edges continue to be smoothed off Martin Luther King Jr.'s bracing challenges to racism, war and free-market exploitation, the holiday is a time to remember a leader who...

William P. Jones

Green Power

The Green Party fell from power in recent German elections, but Greens continue to be the party to watch, a progressive influence on the world's third-largest economy.

Mark Hertsgaard

Part D From Outer Space

The Bush Administration's ill-advised new prescription drug program could destroy Medicare as a benefit for all Americans.

Trudy Lieberman

The Impeachment of George W. Bush

The time has come to call for the impeachment of President Bush. Any President who maintains he is above the law--and acts repeatedly on that belief--seriously endangers our consit...

Elizabeth Holtzman