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Feature
In Lieu of Flowers
Mourning a slain young mother in New Orleans, the only way to dignify her death is to try to create real justice here.
Billy Sothern
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The Millionaires’ Primary
As America embarks on the longest, most costly presidential race in history, Russ Feingold is asking Congress to apply the brakes.
Ari Melber
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Guantánamo, Dred Scott and the Amistad
The US Supreme Court should look back on its most regrettable and most courageous decisions.
Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith
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KBR’s $400 Million Iraq Question
Did the Pentagon’s biggest Iraq contractor violate military policy by hiring Blackwater and other private military companies?
Jeremy Scahill and Garrett Ordower
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Bush’s Brush with Latin America’s Drug Lords
Bush needs to acknowledge how little Colombia and Guatemala are doing to combat cocaine trafficking to the United States.
Frank Smyth
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Walter Reed Scandal: How Mainstream Media Let Us Down
Cutbacks and a penchant for profits and happy news hid the plight of wounded soldiers.
Celia Viggo Wexler
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Putting Science in the Dock
Judges’ ability to discriminate against expert witnesses has ended up empowering large corporations.
Barry Yeoman
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Who’s Afraid of Gardasil?
A medical breakthrough has provoked opposition from conservatives, consumer advocates and antivaccine groups.
Karen Houppert
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Cheney on Trial
The Libby trial exposed the truth about who really pulls the strings in the Bush White House.
David Corn
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Editorial
Bush Approval Rating Drops Below Zero
Polling experts say that Bush’s numbers are at an all-time low, and that only certain toxic molds have come close to those numbers in the past.
Eric Kenning
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Bush Amigo’s Para Pals
Revelations of Colombian government collusion with paramilitary thugs ought to put the damper on President Bush’s Latin American tour.
Liliana Segura
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Schlesinger & The Nation
Remembering an eminent activist historian whose passing has left the public sphere much poorer.
Victor Navasky
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Conscience and the War
After four years of war, complete withdrawal from Iraq is the only way to redeem our nation for the death and destruction it has imposed.
Stephen F. Cohen
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Time to Fix Healthcare
Affordable healthcare is rapidly emerging as the top domestic policy issue in the 2008 presidential race. Candidates, got ideas?
The Editors
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Column
Cheney, Cornered
As dangerous as any cornered animal, Dick Cheney now stands revealed as a man of deep corruption.
Robert Scheer
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A Consequential Life
Arthur Schlesinger refused to recognize the boundaries most intellectuals accept.
Eric Alterman
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Judge Not?
The case of a severely disabled 9-year-old girl whose parents subjected her to a series of nonessential surgeries raises troubling questions about medical ethics and public policy.
Patricia J. Williams
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A Dispiriting Thought On the 2008 Presidential Election Campaign
What a long, strange trip it’s going to be.
Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
Guantánamo, Dred Scott and the Amistad
The US Supreme Court should look back on its most regrettable and most courageous decisions.
Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith
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The Things They Carried
Reviews of The Host, The Wind That Shakes the Barley and The Namesake.
Stuart Klawans
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The Spoils of Indian Democracy
Two new books show how perceptions of India have been shaped and distorted by rhapsodic portrayals of its business elite.
Siddhartha Deb
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The Restless Mind
At the Same Time, Susan Sontag’s posthumous collection of essays and speeches, reveals her rapt attention to the world around her.
Jeremy Harding
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Schlesinger & The Nation
Remembering an eminent activist historian whose passing has left the public sphere much poorer.
Victor Navasky
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