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Feature
The Unconquerable World
Violence, Hannah Arendt said, destroys power. The United States is moving quickly down this path.
Jonathan Schell
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Brezhnev, Bush and Baghdad
Many Russians who fled Brezhnev’s USSR because they could not speak freely are in a state of shock in today’s America. One is Roman Kaplan, an intellectual from Leningrad (now St.
Nina Khrushcheva
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Labor’s Cold War
Freshly unearthed documents may force the AFL-CIO to face up to past betrayals.
Tim Shorrock
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Inverted Totalitarianism
How the Bush regime is effecting the transformation to a fascist-like state.
Sheldon Wolin
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Editorial
Freedom of Choice Talking Points
Though polls consistently show a majority of Americans supporting freedom of choice, abortion rights are facing their greatest attack since the Supreme Court decision Roe V.
Jonah Engle
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Letter From Ground Zero
Now that the regime of Saddam Hussein has been overthrown, the Bush Administration, like a submarine that, having successfully sunk one ship, resurfaces its periscope to find others, is looking
Jonathan Schell
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Axing Higher Ed
One of the many casualties of our national obsession with the war on Iraq is the emerging crisis of America’s public colleges and universities.
Stanley Aronowitz
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Reflections on a War
It was the best of wars. It was the worst of wars. But did the war in Iraq change anyone’s mind?
Charles Glass
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Bush’s Bomb
The latest crisis with North Korea appears to be about the North finally declaring that it has the bomb, but in fact it is about the Bush Administration’s inability to hide or control sharp int
Bruce Cumings
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Mapping Mideast Peace
With the close of the Iraq war–at least its first phase–the Bush Administration has another opportunity to seek a lasting solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict and to mend relations with
The Editors
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Column
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Stand and Fight
Compare the following two statements currently floating ’round the blogosphere:
Eric Alterman
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Weapons of Mass Delusion?
Tom Friedman doesn’t care if the United States ever finds weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Katha Pollitt
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On the Search for Weapons of Mass Destruction, Whose Presence Was the
So maybe we will find them yet,
Well stashed away in some place clever.
Or were they just destroyed in March?
Or never there at all? Whatever.Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
Discovery/The Nation ’03 Prizewinners
The Nation announces the winners of Discovery/The Nation, the Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prize of the Unterberg Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y.
Various Contributors
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Kurdish Delight
International cinema has an irresistible new pair of reprobates: middle-aged brothers who can do no right in their lives and no wrong before the camera.
Stuart Klawans
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Nina Simone: Lit by a Sacred Flame
To listen to her voice was to be hijacked by its power.
Adam Shatz
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Bird on a Wire
I didn’t have to wait long for Ziad, the plumber, to come to my house. It had been a year since the current Palestinian intifada broke out in September 2000, and unemployment was at record leve
Raja Shehadeh
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