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Feature
Macho, Macho Militarism
On this year’s International Women’s Day, antiwar feminists take note of how our society has become increasingly militarized as a cult of masculinity has tightened its grip on American politics.
Cynthia Enloe
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Corvallis Calls the Troops Home
The Corvallis City Council approved a resolution calling for American troops to come home from Iraq.
Simon Maxwell Apter
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A Moral Economy
Progresssives must articulate a vision of a moral economy and a benevolent community that challenges the rhetoric of market fundamentalism.
Fred Block
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Watching What You Say
How are AT&T, Sprint, MCI and other telecommunications giants cooperating with the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance program?
Tim Shorrock
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Editorial
Will Greenspan Tell the Truth?
A Greenspan memoir will do fine in the marketplace. It is the kind of Important Book daughters buy for father’s birthday. In the unlikely event Greenspan tells the truth, it would be a sensational bestseller.
William Greider
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An Olympian Scandal
Worried about warrantless surveillance in America? Consider the eavesdropping scandal that is currently roiling Greece, enabled by Vodaphone.
John Brady Kiesling
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Chile Looks (Slightly) Left
Michelle Bachelet has vowed Chile will be a different country by the end of her four-year term. But she will likely be remembered more for continuity than for change.
Pascale Bonnefoy
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Defusing the Iran Crisis
A peaceful resolution to the nuclear dispute with Iran is possible if world leaders work to eliminate the obstacles to intelligent compromise.
Michael T. Klare
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Fearmongering on Dubai
Democrats should see the panic over the DP World deal as an opportunity for a nervy rudder-turn and challenge the obsessive secrecy and toxic premises of Bush’s national security policy.
The Editors
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Column
Mary Tillman: ‘The Administration Used Pat’
With the Pentagon’s inspector general suggesting criminal negligence in the killing of former NFL star and Army Ranger Pat Tillman, it is time to demand Congressional hearings into the way the Bush Administration cynically spun the story to serve its political purposes at the expense of the truth.
Robert Scheer
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The Price of Inflation
Bush is using inflation to pay off the deficits incurred by his Administration, leaving future generations with more problems than just debt.
Nicholas von Hoffman
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With God on Our Side?
The right-wing hijacking of religion’s public role in our political discourse is as undeniable as it is inappropriate, and represents one of liberalism’s most serious problems.
Eric Alterman
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Perfect Knowledge, Perfect Ignorance
The Dubai flap is no surprise, considering Bush always promised to run America like a corporation–even if the corporation is Enron.
Patricia J. Williams
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On the Uproar Over Allowing a Dubai Government Company to Run American Ports
Turnabout is fair play when it’s the terror card you’re playing.
Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
Life Is Sweet
Federico Fellini: His Life And Work effaces nearly everything written about the great Italian director, offering a distinct critical analysis and an absorbing account of his private life.
Peter Cowie
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Will Greenspan Tell the Truth?
A Greenspan memoir will do fine in the marketplace. It is the kind of Important Book daughters buy for father’s birthday. In the unlikely event Greenspan tells the truth, it would be a sensational bestseller.
William Greider
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Pledging Allegiance
Todd Gitlin uses patriotism to wallop the radical left in The Intellectuals and the Flag.
Daniel Lazare
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Exile and the Kingdom
In his newest novel The Last Friend, Tahar Ben Jelloun draws from his experiences as a writer and activist under Morocco’s repressive monarchy.
Laila Lalami
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Letters
November 22, 1963: You Are There
Much mail has come in on the subject of Max Holland’s “The JFK Lawyers’ Conspiracy” [Feb. 20].
Our Readers and Max Holland