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Feature
Black Entertainment Television’s ‘Lifestyle’ Choice
The departure of Tavis Smiley leaves a hole in the programming calendar of BET, but that's only part of the problem.
Makani Themba
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Kennard, the Public & the FCC
The former FCC chairman says he's bitter about the effective dismantling of his low-power radio plan. Under his successor, such an idea won't even get raised.
Robert W. McChesney
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Time to Bring the Troops Home
America's provocative military posture in Asia makes war with China more likely.
Chalmers Johnson
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Grover Norquist: ‘Field Marshal’ of the Bush Plan
He's an archconservative who thinks big and knows how to get things done.
Bob Dreyfuss
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Colin Powell’s Vietnam Fog
The war was years ago, but that does not excuse misrepresenting one's participation in it.
David Corn
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Editorial
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AIDS: The New Apartheid
A campaign to help sick people in need of unaffordable medicines is clashing with forces in the global pharmaceutical industry.
Mark Gevisser
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The Worst 100 Days
It's back to the future with the George W. Bush who is leading the nation--in the hard-edged style of the recent fiasco in Florida.
the Editors
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No FTAA, No Fast Track
With NAFTA as an ugly precedent, the proposed trade pact is generating serious opposition from a number of social and economic sources.
the Editors
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Column
Presidents, Not Kerreys, Bred Horror of Vietnam
A tangled web of disingenuous calculation marked developments there, and the public was the more deceived.
Robert Scheer
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Childcare Scare
Studies on the effects of childcare on the young are colored by researchers' views about educated women who go to work.
Katha Pollitt
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Covenant With Death
The death penalty needs to be thought through by liberals, and its acceptance or rejection cannot be á la carte.
Christopher Hitchens
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Books & the Arts
Black Entertainment Television’s ‘Lifestyle’ Choice
The departure of Tavis Smiley leaves a hole in the programming calendar of BET, but that's only part of the problem.
Makani Themba
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Who Lost the Working Class?
A funny thing happened on the way to the election--here's what it portends.
Andrew Levison
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The Designer Workplace
Debra Cash visits the Museum of Modern Art's "Workspheres" exhibition.
Debra Cash
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Letters