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Feature
Life as a Progressive Legislator
The lesson of fifteen years is that real change requires a people's movement.
Paul G. Pinsky
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Battle of the Books in Palestine
Unfounded attacks on school textbooks have had disastrous consequences.
Fouad Moughrabi
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The Liberal Riposte
Liberal groups are also concentrating on influencing the next generation of legal scholars.
Amy Bach
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A Growing Opposition
While to some the United States might seem to be united in its thirst for vengeance, there's a burgeoning antiwar movement that belies the war rhetoric.
John Nichols
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Editorial
A Hole in the World
The September 11 attacks show us our vulnerability—an especially terrifying prospect when paired with the threat of nuclear proliferation.
Jonathan Schell
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Terror in America
The attacks on the Twin Towers will be called 'mindless terrorism,' but the blowback the United States is experiencing is far from mindless.
Robert Fisk
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A Great Wound
The battleground is now on US soil—not just against the terrorists, but those who would highjack the terrible event and twist it to their own ends.
The Editors
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The Dark Smoke
The military and the national security bureaucracy are quick to use the terror attacks to demand more funds and discretion.
David Corn
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Reflections on Durban
The United States cannot dodge its responsibility by withdrawing from the World Conference Against Racism.
Dennis Brutus and Ben Cashdan
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Game Over
The attacks on the Twin Towers show us an ugly truth too long believed in: that of the safe, antiseptic war.
Naomi Klein
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The End of Innocence
While downtown still smolders, and the country gears up for a likely war against the perpetrators of the September 11 attacks, we must keep in mind that state-sanctioned terrorism, too, should be rooted out.
Joel Rogers
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A Political Solution Is Required
While the US looks upon Pakistan for help in its new 'war on terror,' lessons from the past teach us that the alliance can have sinister repercussions.
Tariq Ali
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Column
Pax Americana
Although the terrorist attacks are—and will continue to be for some time—at the forefront of the world's attention, we must remember that the struggles of yesterday still go on.
Patricia J. Williams
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Faceless Cowards?
The September 11 terrorist attacks are already being spun by Washington to fit into its prearranged playbook—the usual language and the usual suspects are already being bandied about.
Alexander Cockburn
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The Not Obviously Insane Network
CNN, regularly derided as 'liberal' by conservative commentators, is only liberal if that word stands for 'somewhat sane.'
Eric Alterman
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Destined to Shadowbox With the Devil
In a war on terror, there is no victory, for terrorism will always exist. It can be contained, but not eradicated.
Robert Scheer
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Books & the Arts
Policing the Color Line
Two books on modern policing and the racial dynamics that go with it.
Christian Parenti
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Murder of the Middle Class
Patricia Highsmith was a master writer of crime and suspense.
Neil Gordon
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