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November 19, 2007 Issue
Mike Davis on the California fires, Helena Cobban on Hamas and Hezbollah, Oona A. Hathaway on international law.
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Editorial
Like other prank campaigns, Stephen Colbert's bid for President promised
brilliant satire. It's a shame he's called it quits.
Larry Bogad
The San Diego wildfires should prompt political candidates to address the fact that communities across America are ill-equipped to deal with natural and unnatural disasters.
Donald Cohen
The Gap has been caught selling garments made by child slaves in India. It's enough to make you vomit all over your new denim jacket.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Phony FEMA press conference, France v. Rumsfeld, Stephen Colbert and remembering Randall Forsberg.
The Editors
James Watson continues his long and well-documented history of baselessly biologizing social stereotypes.
Patricia J. Williams
With little Congressional scrutiny and nary a whimper of protest, the United States will soon establish permanent military bases in sub-Saharan Africa.
Danny Glover and Nicole C. Lee
Immigrants are the invisible victims of the California wildfires.
Mike Davis
Column
Gen. Pervez Musharraf turns out to be just another crummy dictator. But he's our dictator--using the $10 billion in US aid to jail judges and lawyers, and give shelter Al Qaeda and...
Robert Scheer
Gone are the days of equal protection. Intense natural disasters like the California wildfires are being met with a new model: privatized disaster response.
Naomi Klein
The oppression of Muslim women is a major theme among the Islamofascistly aware. If only they felt the same about other women on earth.
Katha Pollitt
These days, even London and Paris seem a bit like North Korea.
Alexander Cockburn
Feature
Most candidates have no idea what it involves.
Anatol Lieven
Democrats gained steam in Tuesday's off-year elections, making it even more obvious that two significant Southern states are up for grabs in 2008.
Bob Moser
At the eighteenth annual Bioneers Conference, environmentalists and social activists are creating alliances that allow the poor to share the promise of a greening America.
Joliange Wright
How often can the Bush Administration be caught off guard by the
consequences of its own actions? Endlessly, it seems.
Tom Engelhardt
How can the left be as adept as the right-wing spin machine at communicating its political agenda? Learn how to use the tools.
Thom Hartmann
The city has backed away from its longstanding commitment to avoid procuring city workers' garments from offshore sweatshops.
Tom Hayden
The time is right for a Great Debate on America's purpose and place in the world. But neither Republicans nor Democrats seem up to the task.
Jerry W. Sanders
It's time to undo the damage and reaffirm America's historical commitment to international law.
Oona A. Hathaway
Mideast policy must include development.
Afshin Molavi
US diplomacy in the Middle East has been held hostage by a refusal to engage with these two popular movements.
Helena Cobban
American politicians should stop implying that Muslim nations and individuals are more dangerous than any other group of human beings. They should also stop calling their religion ...
Juan Cole
To change Iran's behavior, we must first change our own.
Trita Parsi
Candidates should rethink their commitment to outmoded security tools and veiled nuclear threats against nonnuclear states.
William D. Hartung
As America became mired in Iraq, the rest of the world moved on. Yet neither political party seems ready to face the fundamental economic, environmental and geopolitical changes.
Sherle R. Schwenninger
The 2008 election, more than any election in decades,
will turn on questions of foreign policy and national security.
The Nation
Books & the Arts
Like other prank campaigns, Stephen Colbert's bid for President promised
brilliant satire. It's a shame he's called it quits.
Larry Bogad
Hip-hop star M.I.A. broadcasts the sound of those with one foot in the First World and the other in the global South.
Jeff Chang
The Surrealist dissident Raymond Queneau turned his writings into a lab for his experiments, and the results are still exhilarating.
Mark Polizzotti
The contradictions of parliamentary democracy in India have been a constant source of struggle and rich debate.
Basharat Peer
The 2008 election, more than any election in decades,
will turn on questions of foreign policy and national security.
The Nation
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