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Feature
ICE Program Under Fire
287(g), the Department of Homeland Security program that empowers local police, like notorious Sheriff Joe Arpaio, to detain undocumented immigrants, is under scrutiny.
Jessica Weisberg
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Gay Activists Split on Obama
At this past weekend’s National Equality March, fury, or at least frustration, with the president trumped hope. On four key gay rights reforms, the administration’s support is decidedly mixed at best.
Eric Naing
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Don’t Ask, Don’t Get
A grassroots group for LGBT activism, born at last weekend’s National Equality March, plans to push Obama harder than established gay rights groups will.
Daniel Chandler
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Obama at the Precipice
Will Obama do any better at listening to critics of the Afghan War than Lyndon Johnson did on Vietnam?
William J. Astore
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Al Qaeda in Afghanistan
At a recent Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, former CIA officers offered clear alternatives to escalation in Afghanistan.
Greg Kaufmann
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Are We the Twenty-First Century Martians?
Should President Obama and General McChrystal read the 111-year-old novel, The War of the Worlds?
Tom Engelhardt
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Honduran Coup Regime in Crisis
Those who seized power in June have polarized society, delegitimized political institutions and empowered social movements.
Greg Grandin
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Reflections on a Decade of Civic Revolutions in Latin America
Having concluded that US and IMF/World Bank prescriptions failed their region, a new generation of leaders seek economic and social development through homegrown strategies.
Antonio Gonzalez and Miguel Tinker Salas
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Beyond Rescue
The campaign against forced prostitution works when it addresses victims’ needs.
Noy Thrupkaew
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Memo to Investigators: Dig Deep
The first step toward lasting financial reform is to identify the roots of the crisis.
William Greider
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Talking With Tehran
Can the United States and Iran negotiate an end to the nuclear standoff?
Bob Dreyfuss
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Editorial
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Tuesdays With Rahm
The quickest way to Rahm Emanuel’s bad side: put progressive pressure on conservative Democrats.
Chris Hayes
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Climate Roulette
A frightening new climate change study says the United States must quit carbon within ten years.
Mark Hertsgaard
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Help Wanted
Benefits extensions and retraining are not sufficient to address the staggering level of unemployment now facing Americans.
The Editors
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Noted.
On healthcare, Representative Grayson lands a punch; momentum against “don’t ask, don’t tell”; Obama goes weak on press freedom; Greece votes socialist as Europe trends right.
The Editors
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Column
My Response to Rush: It’s the Racism, Stupid
The real reason Limbaugh is losing his cool is that his dream of owning an NFL franchise is going up in smoke.
Dave Zirin
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Public Health Before Wall Street Wealth
The healthcare debate has become a convenient distraction from the far more pressing issues surrounding the banking meltdown.
Robert Scheer
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The NFL Must Flush Rush
Rush Limbaugh’s long history of racism should be enough to quash his chances of becoming an owner in the National Football League.
Dave Zirin
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Obama and the Decline of White America
Marginal extremist voices are amplified by the right-wing echo chamber.
Gary Younge
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Where Have You Gone, William Safire?
Newsrooms’ fears of misunderstanding the right leads to outsized coverage and attention.
Eric Alterman
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What Whoopi Goldberg (‘Not a Rape-Rape’), Harvey Weinstein (‘So-Called Crime’) et al. Are Saying in Their Outrage Over the Arrest of Roman Polanski
He's been punished for this lapse–exiled for decades from LA!
Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
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End-of-Self Help
Is the task of philosophy “to learn how to die,” or to teach that there is no such thing as a good death?
Alexander Provan
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Waiting for the Miracle: On Leonard Cohen
In Leonard Cohen’s Afterworld, the trajectory between the latest hit and the wisdom of old has been a long one.
David Yaffe
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