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May 9, 2005 Issue

Trudy Lieberman sounds the alarm on increasing poverty in the US, Daphne Eviatar hails a big win for human rights and Arthur C. Danto review…

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Editorial

Lessons From the Social Security Debate

A better approach to measuring poverty.

Jared Bernstein and Mark Greenberg

In Fact…

MINORITY/MAJORITY

Let Them Eat Cake

The Bush budget cuts programs for the hungry.

Trudy Lieberman

DeLay’s Grab for NASA

When it comes to ethics violations, the sky is no longer the limit.

DeLay Must Go

Corruption is not a partisan issue.

Column

Fiddling While Crucial Programs Starve

Has the United States become like ancient Rome, in love with costly conquest?

The ‘Ick’ Factor: Villains, Veils and Vision

While Michael Jackson's 2005 trial was appalling, it was not the stuff of ordinary tabloid catharsis; there was not an unsullied soul within fifty miles of the courthouse.

Patricia J. Williams

George Bush Nominates John Bolton, a ‘Kiss-Up-Kick-Down Sort of Guy,’ to Be Ambassador to the United Nations

Letters

The New Nike, Disability Rights & Sodomy

"THE GOP'S FAVORITE DEMOCRAT," by Ari Berman

Letters

TRADE AIN'T NOTHIN' IF IT AIN'T FREE

Washington, DC

Alexander Cockburn and Our Readers and Eric Fischl

Feature

Justice Sunday Preachers

If their struggle is like the civil rights movement, why do Christian-rightists like Tony Perkins have so many racist friends?

Vietnam: Thirty Years On

Closeness, even friendship, with our former enemies.

Columbia Unbecoming

An internal memo urges retaliation against graduate students who want a union.

Jennifer Washburn

Failing the Electoral Standards

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has been monitoring elections in emerging democracies ever since the fall of the Berlin wall, but now it has done s...

Letter From Beijing

Chinese activists oppose the "Washington Consensus."

Jehangir S. Pocha

A Big Win for Human Rights

Unocal's settlement with Burmese villagers may spur better corporate conduct.

Bush’s War on the Press

Our independent media is under attack.

Barely Legal Videos

Get your news on.

Books & the Arts

Bellow’s Lonely Planet

The world Saul Bellow made.

Patrimony

Kevin Young updates the Harlem Renaissance for the hip-hop generation.

John Palattella

Flyboy in the Buttermilk

Basquiat in Brooklyn.

Arthur C. Danto

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