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November 9, 2009 Issue
Priya Satia on drone attacks, Manan Ahmed on Pakistan paranoia, Bob Moser on Virgina’s 2010 gubernatorial race…
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Editorial
Everyone is looking to Virginia's off-year gubernatorial contest as a Middle American barometer for 2010.
Bob Moser
Whatever his party label, Mayor Michael Bloomberg's firmest loyalties are to Wall Street. Why is his Democratic opponent unwilling to forcefully challenge him on economic issues?
Theodore Hamm
Healthcare reform is looking less like a fantasy and more like a probability--but we need to keep a close watch on affordability, financing and the public option.
J. Lester Feder
A how-to for taking action on Afghanistan.
The Editors
US Afghanistan policy should not be held hostage to the president's past rhetoric.
The Editors
Column
The Connecticut senator declared Tuesday that he would support a filibuster of any healthcare reform bill that has a public option--even the version with the "trigger" compromise a...
Robert Scheer
By refusing to acknowledge Fox News's avowed partisanship, its MSM defenders diminish the work of honest journalists who try to play fair.
Eric Alterman
It's peculiar, the vocabulary that makes a liability out of the Nobel Prize.
Patricia J. Williams
Feature
Reps. Jan Schakowsky and Carol Shea-Porter argue that since Adam Hermanson died while working on a Defense Department contract, the DoD is obliged to investigate.
Jeremy Scahill
Progressives rejoiced when Sen. Harry Reid announced that the Senate healthcare bill would include a public option. But the jubilation was short-lived.
Lindsay Beyerstein
The evidence against Alex Sanchez is quite refutable, but that assumes a fair trial. And that's not possible in Judge Real's courtroom.
Tom Hayden
The American intelligence community has missed the boat on how quickly the US has fallen from "sole superpower" status.
Michael T. Klare
In Honduras, people are dying while the world looks the other way. Real international pressure--especially from the US--is the only force that could stop that now.
Avi Lewis
Navi Pillay is the first UN human rights commissioner to take on caste discrimination.
Barbara Crossette
Turnout for 350.org's International Climate Day of Action was high in New York City--and in some of the developing nations most vulnerable to effects of global warming.
Nathaniel Herz
After three years of trying to convict Lt. Ehren Watada for refusing to deploy to Iraq, the Army has allowed him to resign.
Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith
In the past month, momentum on healthcare reform has unmistakably shifted as progressives have taken to the streets, the Internet and the halls of Congress to push for a bold plan.
Peter Dreier
There has been a lot of guessing recently about what the final House version of healthcare reform will look like. It's time for some clarity.
Raul Grijalva
What if campaign finance reform took a page from baseball's playbook?
Helen Rosenthal
A federal judge sends the lawyers for Iraqi victims of Blackwater back to the drawing board, while rejecting Blackwater's plea to toss out the case.
Jeremy Scahill
Elements of a responsible withdrawal.
Bob Dreyfuss
The most dependable guarantor of Pakistani stability isn't a troop buildup in Afghanistan; it's Pakistan's emerging middle class.
Mosharraf Zaidi
Is Pakistan really in danger of falling into the hands of the Taliban?
Manan Ahmed
Airstrikes, manned or unmanned, regulated or not, cannot build a better Afghan future.
Priya Satia
The tenacity of the Taliban insurgency is rooted in opposition to a foreign occupation that is particularly distasteful to the Pashtuns.
Selig S. Harrison
If we leave Afghanistan, Al Qaeda will be in no position to re-establish a base there.
John Mueller
Staying in Afghanistan will cost many more American soldiers' lives and hundreds of billions of dollars. Is it worth it?
Stephen M. Walt
The essays in our forum call into question many of the myths and faulty assumptions about the best course of US policy in Afghanistan.
The Nation
Women belong at the center of the debate over the Afghan war, not on the margins.
Ann Jones
Books & the Arts
With his plain, weather-beaten prose, Don Carpenter was a good enough novelist not to have to prove it.
Charles Taylor
In The Fires of Vesuvius, Mary Beard unearths the seedier realities of the Roman social and political experience.
Joy Connolly
For the photographer Thomas Demand, Germany is like any other country because it is haunted by history.
Barry Schwabsky
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