May 28, 2007 Issue

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Feature

Immigrants Push Western Union to Share the Wealth

Outraged at the 17 percent fees they are charged on money they wire home, immigrant workers are pressuring Western Union to reinvest the profits.
Gabriel Thompson
Agent of Intolerance

Jerry Falwell is best known for crusading against abortion and homosexuality. But early on, he skillfully used race to galvanize the Christian right.
Max Blumenthal
Misjudging Women

In Gonzalez v. Carhart, Justice Anthony Kennedy has utterly changed the course of abortion jurisprudence.
Jessica Arons
Broadband Redlining Targets Rural America

Will rural America become roadkill on the information superhighway?
Steve Early
The Price of a Life

Sure, the US government values the lives of innocents killed in combat. Just how much depends on whether they died in New York, Afghanistan or Iraq.
Tom Engelhardt
While We Slept

A new book on the history of Western complicity in Iraq takes an unsparing look at how the first Bush and Clinton administrations set the stage for disaster.
Stanley I. Kutler

Editorial

MacArthur Park

Advocates pushing for reform and immigrants clamoring for justice in the streets will not forget the recent violence in Los Angeles.
The Editors
France à Droite

Under Sarkozy, France will lose much égalité and fraternité. Let’s hope liberté is not diminished as well.
André Schiffrin
Laboring for Edwards

John Edwards is meticulously laying the groundwork to become the candidate of organized labor, insisting prosperity can expand only if unionization expands.
Marc Cooper
Invisible America

Fifty-three years after Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court will rule on two cases that will decide the future of school integration.
Patricia J. Williams
Morality Gets a Massage

Randall Tobias isn’t the first abstinence czar to run afoul of the moral agenda he promoted. It’s time Congress stopped this dangerous crusade.
The Editors
Studs Terkel, Listener

In celebration of Studs Terkel’s 95th birthday last year, the Nation’s Deadline Poet paid tribute.
Calvin Trillin
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Column

‘Democracy’ Is Hell

In a gruesome marriage of technology and medieval barbarity, an Internet video records the stoning death of a 17-year-old Kurdish girl. Welcome to the new Iraq.
Katha Pollitt
Who Are the Merchants of Fear?

A contrarian view on climate change.
Alexander Cockburn
On Three Out of the Ten Republican Presidential Candidates Stating That They Don’t Believe in Evolution

The Big Bang is something else entirely.
Calvin Trillin
The Iraq Information Crackdown

The Iraqi government bans news footage of street carnage and the Pentagon blocks soldiers’ access to YouTube and MySpace. Can we assume from this that the surge is going badly?
Nicholas von Hoffman
Iran Nukes Call Bush’s Bluff

Tehran’s religious fanatics move closer to wreaking nuclear havoc, and what can Bush do about it? Nothing.
Robert Scheer

Books & the Arts

Night on Earth

After Dark, Haruki Murakami’s edgy new novel, describes how the lives of a group of strangers intersect over the course of one night.
Michael Wood
The Virtual Realist

Philip K. Dick has become the most influential and prophetic of late-twentieth-century science fiction writers.
Gene Seymour
Clowns With Kalashnikovs

In his memoir, Régis Debray describes the evolution of his politics from his early days as a revolutionary to his later work advising the nominally socialist François Mitterrand.
James Miller
The Imaginary Jew

Two new novels, by Michael Chabon and Nathan Englander, recharge the modern Jewish experience with a sense of the exotic.
William Deresiewicz
The New Face of Warfare

Child soldiering has become a defining feature of modern warfare. And the United States has been all too complicit in the trend.
Fatin Abbas
The Wharton School

A new biography describes how Edith Wharton transformed her obsessions into stories of loss, regret and entrapment.
Brenda Wineapple
Among the Disbelievers

In their rush to throw out God, atheist writers appear to have given little thought to what should replace Him.
Daniel Lazare
The Brown Decades

In an engaging new memoir, Carolyn Brown recollects her work with modern dance legends Merce Cunningham and John Cage.
Rachel Cohen
The Dread Zone

John Leonard, noted critic and former literary editor of The Nation, died Wednesay at 69. This review of Don DeLillo’s Falling Man was one of his last pieces published in the magazine.
John Leonard
At a Loss for Words

Ralph Ellison was eager to be counted in any political cause–except those surrounding race.
Michael Anderson
While We Slept

A new book on the history of Western complicity in Iraq takes an unsparing look at how the first Bush and Clinton administrations set the stage for disaster.
Stanley I. Kutler
Spider-Man 3: Third Time’s (Not) the Charm

Sam Raimi has loaded so many big ideas into Spider-Man 3, they drag this morality-soaked bag of kittens right down to the river’s bottom.
Stuart Klawans
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May 28, 2007 Issue

Feature

Outraged at the 17 percent fees they are charged on money they wire home, immigrant workers are pressuring Western Union to reinvest the profits.

Jerry Falwell is best known for crusading against abortion and homosexuality. But early on, he skillfully used race to galvanize the Christian right.

In Gonzalez v. Carhart, Justice Anthony Kennedy has utterly changed the course of abortion jurisprudence.

Will rural America become roadkill on the information superhighway?

Sure, the US government values the lives of innocents killed in combat. Just how much depends on whether they died in New York, Afghanistan or Iraq.

A new book on the history of Western complicity in Iraq takes an unsparing look at how the first Bush and Clinton administrations set the stage for disaster.

Editorial

Advocates pushing for reform and immigrants clamoring for justice in the streets will not forget the recent violence in Los Angeles.

Under Sarkozy, France will lose much égalité and fraternité. Let’s hope liberté is not diminished as well.

John Edwards is meticulously laying the groundwork to become the candidate of organized labor, insisting prosperity can expand only if unionization expands.

Fifty-three years after Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court will rule on two cases that will decide the future of school integration.

Randall Tobias isn’t the first abstinence czar to run afoul of the moral agenda he promoted. It’s time Congress stopped this dangerous crusade.

In celebration of Studs Terkel’s 95th birthday last year, the Nation’s Deadline Poet paid tribute.

GET UNLIMITED DIGITAL ACCESS FOR LESS THAN $3 A MONTH!

Column

In a gruesome marriage of technology and medieval barbarity, an Internet video records the stoning death of a 17-year-old Kurdish girl. Welcome to the new Iraq.

A contrarian view on climate change.

The Big Bang is something else entirely.

The Iraqi government bans news footage of street carnage and the Pentagon blocks soldiers’ access to YouTube and MySpace. Can we assume from this that the surge is going badly?

Tehran’s religious fanatics move closer to wreaking nuclear havoc, and what can Bush do about it? Nothing.

Books & the Arts

After Dark, Haruki Murakami’s edgy new novel, describes how the lives of a group of strangers intersect over the course of one night.

Philip K. Dick has become the most influential and prophetic of late-twentieth-century science fiction writers.

In his memoir, Régis Debray describes the evolution of his politics from his early days as a revolutionary to his later work advising the nominally socialist François Mitterrand.

Two new novels, by Michael Chabon and Nathan Englander, recharge the modern Jewish experience with a sense of the exotic.

Child soldiering has become a defining feature of modern warfare. And the United States has been all too complicit in the trend.

A new biography describes how Edith Wharton transformed her obsessions into stories of loss, regret and entrapment.

In their rush to throw out God, atheist writers appear to have given little thought to what should replace Him.

In an engaging new memoir, Carolyn Brown recollects her work with modern dance legends Merce Cunningham and John Cage.

John Leonard, noted critic and former literary editor of The Nation, died Wednesay at 69. This review of Don DeLillo’s Falling Man was one of his last pieces published in the magazine.

Ralph Ellison was eager to be counted in any political cause–except those surrounding race.

A new book on the history of Western complicity in Iraq takes an unsparing look at how the first Bush and Clinton administrations set the stage for disaster.

Sam Raimi has loaded so many big ideas into Spider-Man 3, they drag this morality-soaked bag of kittens right down to the river’s bottom.

The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.

Letters