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Feature
Title IX: Political Football
Women’s sports are under attack by jocks who have an ally in the President.
Ruth Conniff
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Neo-Macho Man
Say what you will about oil and hegemony, but the pending invasion of Iraq is more than just a geopolitical act. It’s also the manifestation of a cultural attitude.
Richard Goldstein
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Challenging the Rush to War
Considering the fact that the Bush Administration is the planet’s primary proponent of war with Iraq, Nancy Lessin wants to know why the US Congress has failed to follow the example of parliament
John Nichols
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Editorial
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Donahue–War Casualty
War may or may not be inevitable, but a one-sided discussion of US policy toward Iraq appears to be all but guaranteed on network television.
John Nichols
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Washington Post Warriors
A generation ago, when I worked at the Washington Post, the right-wing fringe occasionally referred to us as “Pravda on the Potomac.” We reporters were amused but also rankled.
William Greider
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Rising Danger in Korea
Bruce Cumings’s book Parallax Visions: Making Sense of American-East Asian Relations has recently appeared in paperback (Duke) and contains an extended analysis of the first nuclear crisis with North Korea a decade ago.
Bruce Cumings
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Caldron in Northern Iraq
Charles Glass covered the Kurdish rebellion in northern Iraq for ABC News in 1991.
Charles Glass
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Dissent and Disconnects
History was made on February 27 when for the first time Big Labor formally broke with a sitting President’s war policy.
The Editors
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Column
When Bombs Fall, US Will Join Ranks of War Criminals
The maiming or killing of a single Iraqi civilian in an attack by the United States would constitute a war crime, as well as a profound violation of the Christian notion of just war.
Robert Scheer
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‘Rules for Changing the World’
This was intended to be a sweet little prewar column about an artist I admire, Rosanne Cash.
Eric Alterman
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The Kurds Are in the Way Again
The Kurds are in the way again, And so, to our dismay again, If we begin a fray again, As it appears we may again, It seems we must betray again
Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
What Are They Reading?
John Steinbeck’s forlorn protagonists, Lennie and George, summon few comparisons in today’s landscape of mainstream literary fiction, overstocked with tales of redemption.
Johnny Temple
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Dashboard Confessional
A few years ago, when moviegoers in this country were just beginning to learn about Abbas Kiarostami, I heard a crowd of New Yorkers berate him for having put a snatch of Vivaldi onto a soundtr
Stuart Klawans
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Talkin’ ‘Bout My Generation
The revival of a highly regarded play can either enhance or diminish its reputation.
David Kaufman
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Court Reporter
On June 4, 1961, John F. Kennedy held his last meeting with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna.
Dusko Doder
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Neo-Macho Man
Say what you will about oil and hegemony, but the pending invasion of Iraq is more than just a geopolitical act. It’s also the manifestation of a cultural attitude.
Richard Goldstein
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‘Rules for Changing the World’
This was intended to be a sweet little prewar column about an artist I admire, Rosanne Cash.
Eric Alterman
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Storm Warnings for a Supply-Side War
There’s nothing like a compelling icon when no compelling argument is available.
Ian S. Lustick
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Letters
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