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Feature
When Did Bush Know About Abu Ghraib?
A close reading of L. Paul Bremer’s memoir shows the President knew details about torture far earlier than he has acknowledged.
Ryan Grim
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A Moratorium Wired to Stop the War
A new Iraq Moratorium effort will leverage grassroots and online activism.
Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith
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High-Tech Hysteria
Alarmist predictions of a talent shortage of high-tech workers are driving the race to the bottom.
Elizabeth Schuster and Michelle Chandra
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For Liberal Internationalism
Now that neoconservative policies have led us into disaster, it’s time to give liberal internationalism a chance.
Michael Lind
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Waiting for Gordon
Britain’s incoming prime minister inherits a country transformed almost beyond recognition.
D.D. Guttenplan
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What Women See When They See Hillary
Some of the same feminists who loved Hillary as First Lady are now fiercely opposing her bid for the White House.
Lakshmi Chaudhry
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Editorial
Digby Speaks: The Netroots Revolution
The pseudonymous Southern California blogger accepts the Paul Wellstone Citizen Leadership Award on behalf of progressive bloggers everywhere–and invites the nation to join the party.
Digby
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The YouTube Election
Edwards primps, Hillary spoofs The Sopranos and Obama Girl oozes charm. But can web campaigns turn clicks into votes?
Rebecca Tinkelman
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Israel’s Choice
It’s time for a democratically governed Israel to grant liberal civil rights to its Arab minority.
Stephane Hessel
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Curing the Rot at Justice
Congress has thus far failed to hold Alberto Gonzales accountable for politicizing the Justice Department. Polite words must now give way to bold actions.
John Nichols
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Remembering June 12
Twenty-five years after the largest antinuclear demonstration ever, the movement has dwindled. But the threat of mass destruction grows greater.
Jonathan Schell
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US Justice, Euro Prisons
The Council of Europe and courts at home are calling the Bush Administration to account for secret torture outposts in Poland and Romania.
The Editors
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Column
Hamas Holds the High Cards
It’s too late for the corrupt remnants of the PLO to make any credible claim of leadership, even if the US, Israel and EU throw aid dollars their way.
Robert Scheer
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Corrupt Colleges, Student Debt
Corrupt college administrators have sold out students and buried them in a mountain of debt.
Nicholas von Hoffman
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Shots in the Dark
When guns claim lives where any middle-class child might be, America mourns. But in barrios, projects and trailer parks, it’s as if the crime never happened.
Gary Younge
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Laboratory for a Fortressed World
Gaza is in chaos, but Israel’s economy is booming as high-tech entrepreneurs scramble to meet the post-9/11 world’s hunger for spy tools and containment walls.
Naomi Klein
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The Liberal Voice
Thanks to the potty-mouths of Bush and Cheney, we’ve won the right to accidentally curse on the public airwaves. Now, what about all the networks’ intentional antisocial behavior?
Eric Alterman
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George W. Bush’s Reception in Albania
The President’s offshore approval ratings get a boost.
Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
Iraq’s Founding Mother
A biography of Gertrude Bell investigates the woman who created Iraq out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire.
Charles Glass
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Persian Ghosts
The complex historical tensions between Sunnis and Shiites are not enough to explain the current crisis in the Middle East.
Chris Toensing
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