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Feature
The Post-Wisconsin Game Plan
Under attack, labor and its allies are redirecting energy and resources to state-level fights.
John Nichols
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Texas’ Wild Tea Party
Only the deepest cuts in the country will satisfy this crowd. Will the treatment kill the patient?
Bob Moser
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Ohio: A New Kind of Battleground
Facing a state budget that guts public jobs and services, a progressive coalition comes alive.
Amy Hanauer
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US Uncut Targets Corporate Tax Evaders
The fast-growing protest group believes that instead of asking citizens to sacrifice, government should demand that corporations pay their taxes.
Allison Kilkenny
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A Fair Tax on Millionaires
Why should those worth hundreds of millions pay tax at the same rate as those who are middle class?
Mark Engler
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No Free Ride for Finance
A financial activities tax (FAT) would encourage long-term investing and help plug budget deficits. Can states rally to pass them?
Dean Baker
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Inside the Detainee Abuse Task Force
Former agents say Army accountability after Abu Ghraib was a whitewash.
Joshua E.S. Phillips
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Editorial
Taking Back the States
In Republican "trifecta" states, the backlash against the GOP’s radical social agenda has begun.
The Editors
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The Kushner Affair
It is shameful that CUNY colluded so thoughtlessly in an attempt to narrow the bounds of acceptable public discourse.
The Editors
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South Asia Without Osama bin Laden
Bin Laden’s death offers President Obama a chance to end the war in Afghanistan and to prevent one in Pakistan.
Graham Usher
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The Fatah-Hamas Accord
The agreement to end the schism between the two Palestinian factions reflects the profound political changes underway in the Middle East.
Mouin Rabbani
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Honoring Baltasar Garzón
The Spanish judge who dared to hold brutal human rights violators to account is now fighting for his legal career.
David Cole
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Fantasy Islands
When the lines between fantasy, desire, action and intent have been so blurred, the thought itself becomes the crime.
JoAnn Wypijewski
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Noted.
Liliana Segura on Obama’s immigration policy, D.D. Guttenplan and Maria Margaronis on the UK’s faltering Liberal Democrats, and Frank Askin on electoral reform in New Jersey.
Various Contributors
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Column
Welcome to Obama’s 2012 Campaign
To launch his reelection bid, the president took up a longstanding American tradition: extrajudicial political assassinations.
Alexander Cockburn
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Women Who Ran With the Republicans
The GOP’s hardcore antichoice policies are turning off more and more female voters, creating a huge opportunity for Democrats.
Katha Pollitt
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Books & the Arts
Losers Take All: On the New American Cinema
How B-movie directors and young mavericks rattled Hollywood’s dream machine.
Heather Hendershot
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Countervailing Powers: On John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith was a satirist of economics as much as a practitioner of it.
Kim Phillips-Fein
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In Our Orbit: Desolation Peaks
In Fire Season Philip Connors offers a tribute to the life of solitude he leads as a fire lookout in the Gila National Forest.
Judith Long
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Letters
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