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Feature
Farewell, the American Century
In order to solve our problems Americans must begin to see ourselves as we really are.
Andrew J. Bacevich
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Egypt After Mubarak
The prospect of a dynastic succession could make for a messy transfer of power in the political epicenter of the Arab world.
Stephen Glain
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Killing Civilians: How Safe Do You Actually Want to Be?
Why dead Afghan civilians aren't collateral damage but the heart of the matter.
Tom Engelhardt
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The Challenge of Global Governance
“Rescue socialism” won’t work if it fails to go beyond quick-fix measures.
George A. Papandreou
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Misreading the Somali Threat
The Obama administration is sending mixed signals on how to deal with pirates.
Karen Rothmyer
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The Cost of Doing Business on the Open Sea
Until the shipping community abandons its pinch-penny cynicism, piracy off the coast of Somalia is certain to grow.
Richard Pollak
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Mining Bolivia’s Past
The movement that elected Evo Morales–and that pressures him now–has deep roots.
Chesa Boudin
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Has the ‘Journal’ Lost Its Soul?
Rupert Murdoch has not wrecked the Wall Street Journal, as many had predicted. But a key question remains: is the new regime committed to unbiased reporting, or will it politicize the news?
Scott Sherman
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Editorial
Planet Earth: Too Big to Fail
The Obama administration is giving mixed signals on global warming: claiming the right to regulate greenhouse gases but also expecting Congress to rewrite climate change regulations.
Philip Radford
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The Left Forum–Or, Why City Hall Doesn’t Listen
Whoever now governs the country (a point on which there was no agreement) is likely to remain resolutely indifferent to the message of Left Forum 2009.
Norman Birnbaum
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Obama and Latin America
At the Summit of the Americas, Obama went far toward repairing the damage done by two decades of disastrous economic policy.
Greg Grandin
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Bush’s Lingering Blacklist
If we are to pursue our security without abandoning our ideals, laws on groups financing terror need drastic reform.
David Cole
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Notes on Change
Three months into the Obama era, the euphoria of the election has begun to dissipate.
Chris Hayes
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Noted.
Jane Harman’s wiretap, Chávez and Obama, justice in Guatemala, a remembrance of Walter Schneir
The Editors
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Accountability for Torture
Congress must act to remove from positions of trust those who sanctioned torture and dial down the imperial presidency that has evolved on its watch.
John Nichols
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Column
The Clinton Bubble
Obama’s allowing the same Clinton-era policy makers who set us up for financial crisis make economic policy. What happened to the socially conscious guy we voted for?
Robert Scheer
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As Good as Their Word
Bank of America’s Ken Lewis has done his bit to reinforce the idea that the CEOs who got us into this mess are a pack of liars.
Nicholas von Hoffman
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Are Banks Struggling, or Scamming?
After all the help that’s been given to banks or extorted from the public, we have the feeling financial institutions are not doing much with the money.
Nicholas von Hoffman
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The Newspaper Biz: ‘More Poison, Please’?
We have no more hope today of saving the newspaper business than we do the telegraph business. But we can save the news.
Eric Alterman
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On Bush Administration Memos Supporting ‘Enhanced Interrogation Techniques’
It’s all in how you define it.
Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
Farewell, the American Century
In order to solve our problems Americans must begin to see ourselves as we really are.
Andrew J. Bacevich
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Only Words: Liberalism, Past and Future
Two new histories examine contemporary liberalism’s entrails and peer into its future.
George Scialabba
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Back Talk: Peter Singer
A conversation with the author of The Life You Can Save about charitable giving and the utility monster argument.
Christine Smallwood
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When the Whip Comes Down: On Mary Gaitskill
With Don’t Cry, a disabling self-consciousness has crept into Mary Gaitskill’s fiction.
William Deresiewicz
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The Newspaper Biz: ‘More Poison, Please’?
We have no more hope today of saving the newspaper business than we do the telegraph business. But we can save the news.
Eric Alterman
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Letters
Newspapers: Dinosaur or Phoenix?
John Nichols and Robert W.
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