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Feature
Letter From Afghanistan
The strange story of the Herati shelter girls shows the limits of “liberation.”
Ann Jones
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Letter From Poland
Bush has managed to puncture Poles’ image of America as essentially good.
David Ost
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Supporting the Troops, Doubting the War
Iraq is changing lives and political sentiments in a small Midwest town.
Sasha Abramsky
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Editorial
Keep the Promise to Our Children
The largest mobilization ever for public schools has one simple demand.
Robert L. Borosage
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Taking Liberties
On September 2 a federal judge in Detroit threw out the only jury conviction the Justice Department has obtained on a terrorism charge since 9/11.
David Cole
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Letter From Ground Zero
Why does the United States–born in a people’s war for national independence from the greatest empire of its time–have such a difficult time understanding the people’s wars of independence of ou
Jonathan Schell
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Security for Sale
This article is adapted from Sifry and Watzman’s just-published Is That a Politician in Your Pocket? Washington on $2 Million a Day.
Micah L. Sifry and Nancy Watzman
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Agents of Influence
Did Ariel Sharon, the Prime Minister of Israel, run a covert program with operatives in high-level US government positions to influence the Bush Administration’s decision to go to war in Iraq?
Bob Dreyfuss
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Election Matters
The presidential pageant has now risen full in the sky and is blocking out the sun.
William Greider
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Command of the Truth
It’s one measure of the decay–and the promise–of American political discourse that Seymour Hersh’s Chain of Command arrives at a moment when John O’Neill and Jerome Corsi’s Unfit for
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Column
Treating Obesity, Meatless Treats, Etc.
“I don’t automatically assume doctors are more qualified to spout truths then patients are.”
Dr. Marc Siegel
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True Conservatives Would Back Kerry
If they were true to their principles, moderate Republicans and consistent conservatives would be supporting John Kerry. Instead, their acquiescence to the reckless whims of George W.
Robert Scheer
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Bush’s Useful Idiot
Four years ago, Ralph Nader justified his third-party campaign on the grounds that the two parties represented nothing more than “Tweedledum and Tweedledee.” As Americans die by the thousand in I
Eric Alterman
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All Creatures Great and Small
It was an odd dream: The Bush twins were ten feet tall and peering in my window. They were snickering. “We had a hamster too…” they were saying, as though it were the merriest of threats.
Patricia J. Williams
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A Short History of Someone Who Failed to Get Into the Champagne Unit of the Texas Air National Guard in 1968
I wasn’t really for the war.
But all my kin, in wars before,
Had gone when called. I couldn’t flee.
No, Canada was not for me.
Another thing that I was notCalvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
Styles of Radical Will
One of South America’s most brilliantly talented filmmakers has made a political road movie: the story of a young man who sets out on a journey of discovery and self-discovery through his vast co
Stuart Klawans
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Of Human Bondage
In the sequence of revolutions that remade the Atlantic world between 1776 and 1825, the Haitian Revolution is rarely given its due, yet without it the progressive credentials of the others would
Robin Blackburn
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Difficult Loves
It wasn’t until 1996, when President Bill Clinton declared April to be National Poetry Month, that the eminent translator and poet Richard Howard truly grasped the significance of the opening wor
John Palattella
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Letter From Ground Zero
Why does the United States–born in a people’s war for national independence from the greatest empire of its time–have such a difficult time understanding the people’s wars of independence of ou
Jonathan Schell
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