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Feature
In Defense of Deficits
A big deficit-reduction program would destroy the economy two years into the Great Crisis.
James K. Galbraith
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Naji Hamdan’s Nightmare
An American auto-parts businessman says he was tortured in the UAE–with US complicity.
Anna Louie Sussman
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The Wrong Kind of Green
The Nature Conservancy has acknowledged the oil leak in the Gulf, but failed to mention BP. Could it be because the Conservancy has close ties to the oil company? Johann Hari reports on the relationship between conservation groups and corporate cash.
Johann Hari
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Editorial
New Left Review at 50
The journal’s sustained critique of neoliberalism remains indispensable.
Jon Wiener
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Swords Into Solar Panels
The Obama administration wants to push holistic solutions to national problems–and retooling manufacturers of military hardware into purveyors of solar technology is one.
Miriam Pemberton
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Noted.
Stuart Klawans on radical filmmaker Leo Hurwitz; John Nichols on the primary fight for Blanche Lincoln’s Senate seat.
The Editors
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The Contractor Scofflaws
Obama is on the brink of bringing significant reforms for workers to government contractors.
William Greider
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Column
Global Women: Good News, Bad News
What makes for the most gender-egalitarian country in the world?
Katha Pollitt
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Books & the Arts
Vision or Blindness?
In Jacques Audiard’s <i>A Prophet</i>, clairvoyance has its limits.
Stuart Klawans
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Heroic Impatience
The past was one single catastrophe to the Baader-Meinhof Gang, and acts of violence the only perceived exit.
Diego Gambetta
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Noted.
Stuart Klawans on radical filmmaker Leo Hurwitz; John Nichols on the primary fight for Blanche Lincoln’s Senate seat.
The Editors
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