July 9, 2007 Issue

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Feature

Religious Leaders Challenge a Polluter

A delegation of church leaders traveled to the US, calling on corporate mogul Ira Rennert to clean up the smelters that are poisoning the children of Peru.
Sara Shipley Hiles
Cheney and the Constitution

If you think the Vice President’s abuse of power is scary now, consider what might happen when he counts Electoral College votes in a divisive 2008 election.
Aziz Huq
Lady With a Lawnmower

She cuts her lawn slowly with a push mower. I save time, hiring men to run machines, burn gas, kill the ozone. Who’s the wiser?
Donna Schaper
Getting Real About Food

Something very strange has happened to food in the richest country in the world: It’s fast, but it ain’t good. And it travels way too far a distance from the field to your fork.
Molly Schwartz and Donna Schaper
A Call to Bring All Troops Home

The Center for American Progress is calling to bring all combat forces–including trainers–home from Iraq.
Tom Hayden
Voices in Conflict

When Wilton High School censored a student play about the Iraq war, the cast went to the Public.
Emily Douglas
Hong Kong, Ten Years After

Ten years of Chinese rule in Hong Kong hasn’t resulted in severe human rights abuses, but full democracy has yet to emerge.
Fiona Ng
School’s Out

The radical corporate overhaul of NYC public schools is draining the soul from education and reducing learning to a series of standardized tests and progress reports.
LynNell Hancock
Will the Progressive Majority Emerge?

New polling data shows that the majority of Americans are leaning liberal. How long will it take politicians and the media to get that?
Rick Perlstein

Editorial

Who Is Hillary Clinton?

A closer look at Hillary Clinton’s career reveals a technocratic centrist whose political ambition might trump any progressive policy promises.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Who’s Afraid of History?

Official Washington wants to avoid the “divisive ordeal” of looking at what went wrong in Iraq. But upcoming hearings for Admiral Michael Mullins’ nomination as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the perfect opportunity.
Stanley I. Kutler
A New Green Card Deal

History is full of examples showing that policies designed to exclude immigrants are doomed to fail.
Mae Ngai
Revolution in Venezuela?

Oil money allows Hugo Chávez to do many things, but it will never be enough to buy a revolution.
Joaquín Villalobos
In Praise of Red Tape

When lawmakers and the media failed to hold the Bush Administration to account, it was left to bureaucrats to defend the integrity of government.
Chris Hayes
Eyeless in Gaza

The disaster in Gaza has many fathers, but its most direct cause was the Bush Administration’s cynical manipulation of democracy promotion.
The Editors
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Column

Taxpayers Lose, Halliburton Gains

A new report on Halliburton’s role in the failed reconconstruction of Iraq documents how profits of the merchants of death are rising.
Robert Scheer
The House that Hedge Funds Built

The rickety financial skyscaper known as the subprime mortgage business is ready to tumble–and the rest of us may be buried in the rubble.
Nicholas von Hoffman
Anything Boys Can Do…

The Dangerous Book for Boys does no boy a favor by resuscitating the Anglo-imperial manly ideals. And what about girls?
Katha Pollitt
Zyklon B on the US Border

A grim history lesson of what happened in the 1920s when fears of alien infection inflamed American eugenicists.
Alexander Cockburn
On the Tributes to Scooter Libby That So Underwhelmed the Judge

It takes one to know one.
Calvin Trillin

Books & the Arts

Who’s Afraid of History?

Official Washington wants to avoid the “divisive ordeal” of looking at what went wrong in Iraq. But upcoming hearings for Admiral Michael Mullins’ nomination as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the perfect opportunity.
Stanley I. Kutler
Anatomy of a Murder

Reviews of A Mighty Heart, Sicko, Czech Dream and Unborn in the USA.
Stuart Klawans
Madman With Broom

The realist crows return
at earliest morning.
And the madman with broom,
Michael Palmer
Company Man

Martin Duberman’s biography of Lincoln Kirstein is a case study of the relationship between art and power.
Lynn Garafola
The Improbable Moralist

Leonard Michaels’s fiction captured his evolution from sex-obsessed misogyny to self-identified moralism.
Phillip Lopate
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July 9, 2007 Issue

Feature

A delegation of church leaders traveled to the US, calling on corporate mogul Ira Rennert to clean up the smelters that are poisoning the children of Peru.

If you think the Vice President’s abuse of power is scary now, consider what might happen when he counts Electoral College votes in a divisive 2008 election.

She cuts her lawn slowly with a push mower. I save time, hiring men to run machines, burn gas, kill the ozone. Who’s the wiser?

Something very strange has happened to food in the richest country in the world: It’s fast, but it ain’t good. And it travels way too far a distance from the field to your fork.

The Center for American Progress is calling to bring all combat forces–including trainers–home from Iraq.

When Wilton High School censored a student play about the Iraq war, the cast went to the Public.

Ten years of Chinese rule in Hong Kong hasn’t resulted in severe human rights abuses, but full democracy has yet to emerge.

The radical corporate overhaul of NYC public schools is draining the soul from education and reducing learning to a series of standardized tests and progress reports.

New polling data shows that the majority of Americans are leaning liberal. How long will it take politicians and the media to get that?

Editorial

A closer look at Hillary Clinton’s career reveals a technocratic centrist whose political ambition might trump any progressive policy promises.

Official Washington wants to avoid the “divisive ordeal” of looking at what went wrong in Iraq. But upcoming hearings for Admiral Michael Mullins’ nomination as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the perfect opportunity.

History is full of examples showing that policies designed to exclude immigrants are doomed to fail.

Oil money allows Hugo Chávez to do many things, but it will never be enough to buy a revolution.

When lawmakers and the media failed to hold the Bush Administration to account, it was left to bureaucrats to defend the integrity of government.

The disaster in Gaza has many fathers, but its most direct cause was the Bush Administration’s cynical manipulation of democracy promotion.

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Column

A new report on Halliburton’s role in the failed reconconstruction of Iraq documents how profits of the merchants of death are rising.

The rickety financial skyscaper known as the subprime mortgage business is ready to tumble–and the rest of us may be buried in the rubble.

The Dangerous Book for Boys does no boy a favor by resuscitating the Anglo-imperial manly ideals. And what about girls?

A grim history lesson of what happened in the 1920s when fears of alien infection inflamed American eugenicists.

It takes one to know one.

Books & the Arts

Official Washington wants to avoid the “divisive ordeal” of looking at what went wrong in Iraq. But upcoming hearings for Admiral Michael Mullins’ nomination as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the perfect opportunity.

Reviews of A Mighty Heart, Sicko, Czech Dream and Unborn in the USA.

The realist crows return at earliest morning. And the madman with broom,

Martin Duberman’s biography of Lincoln Kirstein is a case study of the relationship between art and power.

Leonard Michaels’s fiction captured his evolution from sex-obsessed misogyny to self-identified moralism.

The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.

Letters

SCRAP ‘NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND’! Cambridge, Mass.

The realist crows return
at earliest morning.
And the madman with broom,

SCRAP ‘NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND’!

Cambridge, Mass.