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Feature
Is Ron Paul’s Revolution Just Beginning?
Ron Paul has inspired candidates and activists who are on a quest to remake the GOP. Can they succeed where their hero didn’t?
Susannah Vila
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Congress: Stop Funding Torture
In an open letter to Senator Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, lawyers, clergy and human rights activists voice alarm at mounting evidence of torture and human rights violations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Nation
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The Big Tease
This Week: Everybody wants something, while Congresswoman Kang learns just what it takes to play in the adult sandbox .
Gary Phillips
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Progressive Internet Entrepreneurs
As corporate giants and venture capitalists race to monetize cyberspace, progressives need to step up and become players in the global media game. Here’s how they can do it.
Jeffrey Chester
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McCain (Mis)Speaks
How the Senator won the war of words on Iraq again and again and again.
Victor Navasky and Christopher Cerf
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Recount: A Nightmare Revisited
HBO’s Recount will bring back bad memories, which is precisely why you should see it.
Adam Howard
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Translating Our Bodies, Ourselves
The feminist health manual’s message has evolved as its impact has spread globally.
Linda Gordon
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Letter From Lille: Echoes of ’68
France has by far the most vibrant revolutionary left in Western Europe.
Marc Perelman
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Mr. Lessig Goes to Washington
The visionary professor who inspired the “free culture” movement takes on money in politics.
Chris Hayes
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Labor’s Growing Pains
SEIU battles the California Nurses and dissidents within its own ranks.
Esther Kaplan
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Who’ll Unplug Big Media? Stay Tuned
The media reform movement has made a few inroads, but there’s still a long way to go.
John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney
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Editorial
People of Conscience, Challenge the President!
After eight years of misgovernment, Americans must join together to restore our democracy, the rule of law, and our nation’s moral standing on history’s high road.
Ross C. Anderson
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Noted.
Farmworkers prevail in a long confrontation with Burger King, Dave Zirin interviews Mary Tillman, This Brave Nation debuts June 1 on The Nation.com.
The Editors
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Obama’s Choice
Obama’s strangest option for a running mate is also his strongest: Jim Webb, one of the left’s strongest voices on Iraq and economic fairness.
Bob Moser
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A Progressive Push
It’s time for candidates to focus on issues missing from the debate so far: the bloated military budget, an exit from Bush’s “war on terror,” our failing infrastructure and the deepening financial crisis.
The Editors
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Column
Will the Real John McCain Please Stand Up?
He is the most confounding of candidates, whose inconsistencies speak more of crass opportunism than a real maverick’s impulses.
Robert Scheer
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Bernanke’s Big Bet
The Fed Chief believes if he pumps enough money into the economy, he can stop the slide of house prices and thus stave off financial disaster. How’s he doing? So far, not so good.
Nicholas von Hoffman
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Say It Ain’t So, Joe
Take a look at the qualities right-wing pundits so admire about dove-turned-hawk, Dem-turned-Republican Joe Lieberman.
Eric Alterman
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Character Assassinations
Why does the fraudulence of the Republican machine remain so widely known and so persistently ignored?
Patricia J. Williams
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Books & the Arts
Strange Alchemy
In A Conservative History of the American Left, Daniel Flynn can’t decide whether to ridicule the left or fear it.
Michael Kazin
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People of Conscience, Challenge the President!
After eight years of misgovernment, Americans must join together to restore our democracy, the rule of law, and our nation’s moral standing on history’s high road.
Ross C. Anderson
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Recount: A Nightmare Revisited
HBO’s Recount will bring back bad memories, which is precisely why you should see it.
Adam Howard
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Back Talk: Billy Bragg
British punk rocker and activist Billy Bragg talks about his new album and the politics and economics of free online music.
Christine Smallwood
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Twilights
Who are films like Speed Racer, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and The Edge of Heaven really aimed at?
Stuart Klawans
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Things Fall Apart
With two bodies of work recently reissued, now is a good time to wonder why novelist Patrick Hamilton is worth remembering.
Fatema Ahmed
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My So-Called Independents
Will TV’s new world of branding and product integration destroy small independent productions?
Heather Hendershot
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Adams Ribbed
A John Adams portrait seen through the sympathetic lens of HBO is more than the historical figure ever hoped for.
Nicholas Guyatt
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