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Feature
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Talking With Tony Judt
A discussion with the author of Ill Fares the Land about social democracy, trains and our desiccated ethical vocabulary.
Christine Smallwood
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Learning to Love the Healthcare Bill
Just as Americans came to appreciate Medicare and Social Security, so will they come to value publicly funded healthcare.
Katherine S. Newman
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Editorial
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Goners
Was Wall Street short-sighted—or did it know full well the financial crisis was coming?
Chris Hayes
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Garzón on Trial
Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón has revolutionized international law–and now faces a suspension that could end his career.
Geoff Pingree and Sebastiaan Faber
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Column
Let Us (Not) Pray
For the Christian right, to reject a bigoted preacher is to deny "the right to pray."
Katha Pollitt
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A Bipartisan Memo From Congress to Wall Street
Our elected representatives know who pays the bills.
Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
Talking With Tony Judt
A discussion with the author of Ill Fares the Land about social democracy, trains and our desiccated ethical vocabulary.
Christine Smallwood
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The Pentagon Book Club
A handful of recent revisionist histories of the Vietnam War are shaping counterinsurgency policy in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Nick Turse
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The Idea of England
In the Falling Snow suggests that Caryl Phillips’s considerable talents have further calcified into a mannered style.
Siddhartha Deb
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The Abnormal Norm
A film series organized by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and ArteEast tries to make sense of Lebanon’s Civil War.
Stuart Klawans
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Letters
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