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Feature
Hold Onto Your Underwear: This Is Not a National Emergency
Let me put American life in the Age of Terror into some kind of context, and then tell me you’re not ready to get on the nearest plane heading anywhere, even toward Yemen.
Tom Engelhardt
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Texas Hold ’em, Tea Party Style
Debra Medina has come from nowhere to threaten a runoff in the GOP gubernatorial primary.
Bob Moser
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Iraq’s New Sectarian Storm Clouds
Tonight, President Obama will address the nation to discuss the drawdown of US combat forces in Iraq. In February, Robert Dreyfuss reported on the specter of civil conflict and the possibility of the outbreak of a civil war—which still looms.
Bob Dreyfuss
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18 Million Jobs by 2012
The Obama administration’s jobs proposals are on the right track, but the scope is nowhere near large enough for the crisis we face today.
Robert Pollin
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Editorial
Litmus Test: The People, or the Insurance Companies?
Since 1945, health insurance companies have been allowed to collude to fix prices. Members of Congress will soon vote on whether to reinstate anti-trust provisions for the industry.
Darcy Burner
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Welcome, ‘Sister Citizen’
This issue marks the debut of Melissa Harris-Lacewell’s column, “Sister Citizen.”
The Editors
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Noted.
Ban Ki-moon drafts the blueprint for a powerful UN agency for women; yes, Evan Bayh did sell out constituents–to the right.
The Editors
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Greek Drama
The pressure on Papandreou’s socialist government to fix the crisis by yesterday is a product of the wider recession.
Maria Margaronis
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Athens: The First Domino?
This fiscal crisis could ignite the next global financial meltdown.
Richard Parker
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Help Wanted
The moral case for federal action on unemployment is clear, but the political case is nearly as airtight.
The Editors
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Column
At the Winter Olympics, Blood on the Tracks
The circumstances surrounding the death of Georgian luge slider Nodar Kumaritashvili expose the International Olympic Committee charter as a lie.
Dave Zirin
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Save the Child
But don’t ignore the structural inequities that make the child’s salvation necessary in the first place.
Melissa Harris-Perry
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Books & the Arts
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The Escape Hatch: On Cady Noland
Ironic exclamation points and metallic rectangles were some of Cady Noland’s favorite things.
Nick Stillman
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Her Wild Entire: On Dorothea Tanning
The brilliant revelations and transformations of Dorothea Tanning.
Barry Schwabsky
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The Cut Man: On Taylor Branch
Taylor Branch and a president’s prodigious appetite for vindication before the bar of history.
Chris Lehmann
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Letters
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Crossword
Puzzle No. 1290
ACROSS
1 How a character of The Oxbow Incident was upset making a projection. (11)
Frank W. Lewis