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Feature
Can Mark Green Heal NYC?
New York’s Democratic mayoral primary revealed the city’s racial fault lines.
Jack Newfield
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The Geopolitics of War
Whoever controls Saudi Arabia’s oil wields great power over the world economy.
Michael T. Klare
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Wanted: Global Politics
New types of violence are on the rise, and the only exit route is political.
Mary Kaldor
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The Secret War to Come
The White House is likely to keep a don’t-rock-the-boat Congress in the dark.
David Corn
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A Growing Opposition
After President Bush’s “win this war” speech to Congress Thursday night, Senate majority leader Tom Daschle and Senate minority leader Trent Lott strode to a podium where Lott declared, “Tonight,
John Nichols
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Never Shut Up, New York
Al Giordano is currently a free-speech defendant in the New York State Supreme Court [see Mark Schapiro, “Drug War on Trial,” September 17, 2001].
Al Giordano
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Editorial
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Second Chance With Russia
The monstrous events of September 11 have given the United States a second historic chance, after the squandered opportunity of the 1990s, to establish a truly cooperative relationship with post-C
Stephen F. Cohen
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Column
On V.S. Naipaul’s Nobel Prize
So V.S. Naipaul finally gets the prize.
It’s said he’s willing, through unblinking eyes,
To make his observations, then recall
The bleakest Third World countries, warts and all.
While valuing his writing, I still think
It wouldn’t hurt if, now and then, he’d blink.Calvin Trillin
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A True Patriot Can Pose Hard Questions
War skeptics such as Richard Gere, Susan Sontag, Rep.
Robert Scheer
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Books & the Arts
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