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Feature
Lessons From Chernobyl
The Chernobyl disaster provides the clearest evidence available of what a dirty bomb exploded by terrorists might do.
Paul Webster
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Reading Iraq
"If you want to avoid another Saddam Hussein, you have to work toward peace and democracy in the Middle East."
Jonah Engle
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‘Scoops’ and Truth at the Times
What happens when Pentagon objectives and journalists' needs coincide.
Russ Baker
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On Mediocrity’s Cutting Edge
New Jersey: a vegetable patch and spare bedroom for the big cities on either side.
Luc Sante
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Editorial
Iraq’s WMD Intelligence
"What amazes me is that the President himself is not clamoring for an investigation."
Senator Robert C. Byrd
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Letter From Ground Zero
Read special extracts from Jonathan Schell's new book, The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and The Will of the People.
Jonathan Schell
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Globalization and GMOs
With the end of the Iraq war, the globalization war is heating up around trade again, this time over the issue of genetically modified food. George W.
Tom Hayden
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Standing Up to the FCC
Even as he condemned the 3-to-2 vote of the Federal Communications Commission to allow media conglomerates to dramatically increase their control over newspapers and radio and television statio
John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney
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Taking Aim at Iran
Right-wingers in Washington have begun preparing the ground for US action, perhaps even war, against Iran.
Juan Cole
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Missing WMD Scandal
"Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised," George W.
the Editors
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Column
Bad Iraq Data From Start to Finish
Americans were duped: Evidence of Administration manipulation and mendacity just keeps rolling in.
Robert Scheer
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Downsizing in Disguise
The streets of Baghdad are a swamp of crime and uncollected garbage. Battered local businesses are going bankrupt, unable to compete with cheap imports.
Naomi Klein
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The New Mobility
A recent article in the Washington Post described some suburban high schoolers preparing for their proms by spending nearly $3,000 to rent an H2 Hummerzine, "complete with six TVs, a DVD
Patricia J. Williams
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We’re Shocked, Shocked!
It's hard to choose which deserves the coarser jeer: the excited baying in the press about the nondiscovery of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, or the wailing about the 3-to-2 decision of t
Alexander Cockburn
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Report on the Search For Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, From the Republican Military Command (Karl Rove, Lt. General, Commanding)
We can't yet find the nukes and gas,
Though we have looked in every section.
But we may find them in Iran--
And just before the next election.Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
Hell’s Angel
Romeo Dallaire has the name of a silent-movie star and a face to match: clear eyes, ample mustache, chin of cleft granite.
Stuart Klawans
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Wrestling With Augie March
Editor's Note: With Leonard Kriegel's meditation on Saul Bellow's 1953 novel The Adventures of Augie March, we introduce a series of occasional essays revisiting classic works of literature, history and criticism.
Leonard Kriegel
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The Believer
A reader knowing nothing of the 1990s might well come away from Sidney Blumenthal's lengthy account of The Clinton Wars with the impression that for eight years, Bill and Hillary Clinton
Tom Wicker
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Letters
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