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Feature
Ride of the Valkyries
To the myth-makers of war, the Americans in Iraq look like the Russians in Chechnya.
Matt Bivens
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Chile’s Strange Justice
Emblematic of Chile's skewed democratic transition was the sight of congressional deputy Juan Pablo Letelier, probably one of the most honest and dedicated politicians in the country, behind bars
Tim Frasca
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A New Solidarity Front in Iraq
This fall will see a fact-finding mission to Iraq to evaluate the condition of workers and the status of the labor movement.
Tim Shorrock
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Buyer Beware
Speaking at a conference this winter on Internet crime, eBay.com's director of law enforcement and compliance, Joseph Sullivan, offered law-enforcement officials extensive access to personal cust
Jonah Engle
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The Long Detour
For all of democratic society, this new (and certainly transitory) stage of history is costly and frightening.
James Weinstein
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Labor’s Health Problem
While fighting givebacks, unions can't lose sight of the big healthcare picture.
Steve Early
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The Press and Private Lynch
The Pentagon was selling a patriotic tale. It found many eager buyers.
Daphne Eviatar
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Probing 9/11
A bipartisan commission is at work, but how tough it will be is still unknown.
David Corn
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The Other Japanese Occupation
When Tokyo took over Manchuria, its propagandists spoke of "liberation."
John W. Dower
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Editorial
The Case for Public Patents
It seems clear that one of the keys to public health is establishing public patents.
Dennis Kucinich
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Letter From Ground Zero
Robert Kaplan is a hugely well-informed, indefatigable journalist who combines firsthand reporting, mostly from poor, badly governed or ungoverned countries, with wide reading on the political,
Jonathan Schell
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Privatizing Medicare
The Medicare bills passed by the Senate Finance Committee on June 12 and the House Ways and Means Committee on June 17 move the thirty-eight-year-old social insurance program one step closer to
Trudy Lieberman
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Help for Congo
News from the Ituri region of the misnamed Democratic Republic of Congo in recent weeks has been so grim as to make one want to turn the page or flip the TV channel in despair: tens of thousand
Adam Hochschild
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More Missing Intelligence
As the Pentagon scours Iraq for weapons of mass destruction and Iraqi links to Al Qaeda, it's increasingly obvious that the Bush Administration either distorted or deliberately exaggerated the
Bob Dreyfuss
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Column
No, Newt, the Ends Don’t Justify the Means
Whatever happens in Iraq, lying to Americans and the world about the reasons for war is not acceptable.
Robert Scheer
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First Chronicles
With street fighting prevailing, Paul Bremer, the American administrator in Iraq, recently trotted out a new "two-sided approach," according to the New York Times.
Patricia J. Williams
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My Life as a Rabbi
Inviting me to a recent wedding in Virginia, the proud parents asked if I would do some sort of officiation.
Alexander Cockburn
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The Ballad of Private Lynch
Preferring death to getting caught,
She emptied weapons as she fought.
Though shot and stabbed she didn't flinch.
She battled on, did Private Lynch.
Or did she?Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
Candid Camera
I have often been asked the difference between movie reviews and film criticism; and after much thought, I've decided the answer is about one week.
Stuart Klawans
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Playing the Field
"In society the homosexual's life must be discreetly concealed. As material for drama, that life must be even more intensely concealed.
David Kaufman
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The Empire Strikes Back
A few years in Washington, DC, snake-oil capital of the universe, and you begin to think that anything can be packaged as something else. Well, almost anything.
Anatol Lieven
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The Other Japanese Occupation
When Tokyo took over Manchuria, its propagandists spoke of "liberation."
John W. Dower
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Letter From Ground Zero
Robert Kaplan is a hugely well-informed, indefatigable journalist who combines firsthand reporting, mostly from poor, badly governed or ungoverned countries, with wide reading on the political,
Jonathan Schell
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