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June 13, 2005 Issue

Jonathan Schell worries about Bush’s nuclear option, Frank Smyth reports on US military officers caught delivering weapons to a Colomb…

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Editorial

Minority/Majority

Friends of predatory lenders stay in the minority, while foes move toward the majority.

Letter From Ground Zero

The Senate backed down from its "nuclear option." But would Bush actually reach for his?

Jonathan Schell

In Fact…

ENCOURAGING WORDS

Arthur Miller: 1915–2005

The politics of a progressive playwright.

US Arms for Terrorists?

Two US military officers are caught delivering weapons to Colombian paramilitaries.

Judicial Wars Aren’t Over

Democrats must continue the fight to preserve an independent judiciary.

Column

A Cover-Up as Shameful as Tillman’s Death

Once again, grieving relatives point out that the Bush Administration will exploit anything for political purposes.

Stiffed

Thanks to the wonders of reproductive science, you too can have a virgin birth.

There’s Their Way or the Galloway

The Senate should abandon its comical pretensions to being a body reflecting any democratic mandate.

Alexander Cockburn

Bolton Chases French Ambassador Up Tree

Letters

Is That What the Writer Really Meant?

Articles on Bolivia, the Lincoln Museum and other issues attract both praise and criticism.

Letters

JOHN BROWN, RATIONAL HERO

New York City

Our Readers and Ronald Aronson and Joshua Foer

Feature

The Other Bomb Drops

Bush began the Iraq invasion before he went to Congress.

Collective Memory and the Holocaust

An interview with Peter Eisenman, architect of Berlin's new Holocaust memorial.

Lee Scott’s Shiny Green Lexus

Wal-Mart's CEO showcases his company's hypocrisy.

Liza Featherstone

Tear Gas in the Andes

Unwilling to suffer through another generation of brutal poverty, the indigenous people of Bolivia have taken to the streets in La Paz.

Christian Parenti

Books & the Arts

Collective Memory and the Holocaust

An interview with Peter Eisenman, architect of Berlin's new Holocaust memorial.

Invisible Republic

Siddhartha Deb's second novel follows an Indian journalist on an elusive search for meaning.

Hail Mary

A new biography of one of the Enlightment's most remarkable thinkers.

Look at Me

Camile Paglia, pundit of poetry.

Kindred Spirits

Michael Cunningham delivers a historical/noir/sci-fi novel haunted by 9/11 and Walt Whitman.

Maria Margaronis

Revolutionary Suicide

Eritrea betrayed.

An Acquired Taste

The story of the American products, producers and salesman that took over Europe in the last century.

Zippie World!

A look at Thomas Friedman's flattened world.

George Scialabba

Cosmopolis

Home for centuries to Christians, Muslims and Jews, Salonica was a cosmopolitan world where people of various cultures and religions lived side by side.

Twist and Shout

What Michael Lind believes Abraham Lincoln believed.

James M. McPherson

Unintended Consequences

The story of Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun illustrates the value of a truly independent judiciary.

Words Apart

In Amitav Ghosh's new novel, language is a medium of power.

Nell Freudenberger

Just My Imagination

Russell Jacoby's study of utopian thought is a flawed treasure.

The Heritage Foundation

Paul Johnson and Christopher Hitchens's new books on the Founding Fathers.

Arthur Miller: 1915–2005

The politics of a progressive playwright.

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