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Feature
Letter From Cairo
Egypt's political agenda is increasingly set by the viewpoints aired on Al Jazeera.
Steve Negus
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Which America Will We Be Now?
September 11 showed us true American heroes. Now let's build on their strength.
Bill Moyers
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A War We Cannot Win
If bin Laden is destroyed, his shadowy armies will grow, rather than wither away.
John le Carré
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Ridge on the Ledge
Will the Homeland Security chief be an effective overseer or another spinner?
David Corn
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Selling the Afghan War
With the air and ground war in Afghanistan apparently bogged down, the Pentagon is trying to alter the balance of forces on the propaganda front.
Ken Silverstein
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Strange Boardfellows
What goes down comes around. Amidst all the attention to United Airlines' post-September 11 woes, no one noticed the ringing irony of its tapping John W. Creighton Jr.
Eric Scigliano
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Editorial
Now It’s Ulster’s Turn
In spite of unionist provocations, the IRA has stood down violence during the ongoing democratic process.
Margaret Spillane
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Letter From Ground Zero: November 1, 2001
Politics govern the increasingly difficult war against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Jonathan Schell
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Unleash the Press
The White House has learned from the past—from the conflicts in Vietnam, Grenada, Panama and the Balkans—how to ensure an acquiescent press.
John R. MacArthur
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In Fact…
US food airdrops, School of the Americas Watch gets border scrutiny, V.S. Naipaul, Walter Isaacson and more.
The Editors
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War Measured
Mismanagement and secrecy have stalled the war on terrorism—and at home its effects reverberate against civil rights.
The Editors
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The Unforgotten Election
The 2000 presidential election debacle showed that the country needs electoral reform, but there's only silence from both sides of the aisle.
The Editors
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Scoundrel Time
President Bush is using his popularity in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks to push through some deeply partisan legislation.
Robert L. Borosage
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Column
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Victory Gardens?!
War tropes abound once again during our war on terrorism, but this ain't the USA of yesteryear.
Katha Pollitt
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Two Months Later, It’s ‘Same-Old, Same-Old’ on Airport Security
The Bush administration's recalcitrance in establishing an airport security agency is putting the nation at risk.
Robert Scheer
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Books & the Arts
Expressway to Yr Skull
Indie rock, once the soundtrack of the 1980s and early '90s, is largely gone, but it had a rich history.
Alexander Star
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London After Bloomsbury
A review of On the Wing: A Young American Abroad, by Nora Sayre.
Hazel Rowley
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Which America Will We Be Now?
September 11 showed us true American heroes. Now let's build on their strength.
Bill Moyers
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Sweatshops, Firsthand
A review of Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take on the Global Factory, by Miriam Ching Yoon Louie.
Elizabeth Martinez
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The Thin Blue Line
A review of Training Day, a film by Antoine Fuqua, starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke.
Tim Appelo
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Letters
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Just Shut Them Down?
Readers respond to Matt Bivens's "Nuclear Power & Terrorism."
Matt Bivens, Ray Yang, Brian O’Connell, Lefteri H. Tsoukalas, Kenneth Pitser, Alex Drinkwater Jr., Nadine LaVonne, Joey Marquart and Warren Hoskins