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Feature
Generation Lockdown
California’s juvenile justice system is broken everywhere you look. An ambitious plan for reform could bring much-needed improvements, but does it go far enough?
Mark Sorkin
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Biker Mecca on Sacred Ground
Native American activists are braced for a tense summer, as a motorcycling entrepreneur goes forward with plans for a resort that will draw hundreds of thousands of bikers to the sacred site of Bear Butte.
Anne Keala Kelly
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Who’s Really Screwing America
Right-wing nutcase Bernard Goldberg may think he has a lock on who’s messing up the Republic, but consider Dan Brown, Joe Franklin, Tucker Carlson…
Jack Huberman
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Say Goodbye to Bolton
Selection of a new UN Secretary General is too important to be engineered by the whims and prejudices of John Bolton. It’s time for saner voices in the Administration to tell the UN ambassador his time is up.
Ian Williams
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Drug Busts=Jim Crow
The drug war is the heir to Jim Crow: a form of widespread, legalized discrimination.
Ira Glasser
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War Is Personal: Mona Parsons/Age 52/Mt. Vernon, Ohio
The hidden toll the Iraq War is exposed in a photo essay on how one mother braces for her son’s second deployment to Iraq.
Eugene Richards
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‘They Deserve It’
Prison rape is not a dirty joke; it’s one of the most frequent and widespread human rights abuses in America.
Dan Bell
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The New American Cold War
The unfolding conflict over US plans to build missile defense components near post-Soviet Russia, in Poland and the Czech Republic, is the latest proof of the way US-Russian relations are deteriorating into a new cold war.
Stephen F. Cohen
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Editorial
Bush and the Ten Commandments
No President in living memory is as overtly religious as George W. Bush. But just how well have the President and his henchmen kept the commandments?
Brooke Allen and Patrick Doyle
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Cheney and HAL
As CEO of Halliburton, Dick Cheney was not much different from other corporate titans ensnared by accusations of incompetence and fraud.
William Greider
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The People Versus AIDS
If the United Nations is to keep its promise to grant people with AIDS universal access to treatment by 2010, it will be because activists are holding world leaders accountable.
Richard Kim
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Party of a Different Color
“Vote Blue, Go Green” is the new slogan of Britain’s Conservative Party, a measure of just how great a concern climate change is becoming to politicians of all stripes.
Mark Hertsgaard
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Moving Toward the Exit
Americans know it’s time to end the US presence in Iraq. They will reward the party that offers a plan for leaving before more American soldiers–and countless Iraqis–are killed.
The Editors
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Column
The President’s Jihad
The Bush Administration’s jihad against newspapers that reported on a secret program to monitor the personal-banking records of unsuspecting citizens is more important than the original story.
Robert Scheer
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History Lesson
Back in Washington’s day, Congress printed money to fight the Revolutionary War without collecting taxes to back it up–and paid the price in inflation: History repeats itself today.
Nicholas von Hoffman
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The Uses and Abuses of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was a really bad guy. But the Bush Administration’s armchair warriors mythologized him into a self-fulfilling prophecy of insurgent terror.
Eric Alterman
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Some Perspective
Celebrating the death of Zarqawi, the President puts his spin on the truth.
Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
Who’s Really Screwing America
Right-wing nutcase Bernard Goldberg may think he has a lock on who’s messing up the Republic, but consider Dan Brown, Joe Franklin, Tucker Carlson…
Jack Huberman
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Brilliant Corners
To honor Andrew Hill’s passing, we are reposting an article about his life’s achievements originally posted in July, 2006.
David Yaffe
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The Passion of Anna
In Elaine Feinstein’s new biography, the complicated life of Russian poet Anna Akhmatova is flattened into a fable of suffering and redemption.
Elif Batuman
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The Plot Against America
John Updike’s Terrorist rips its plot from the headlines. But the book’s Irish-Egyptian protagonist is paper-thin, and its jihad-lit plot remains stubbornly inanimate, devoid of passion or fury.
Jonathan Shainin
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