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Feature
Reconstructing the Story of the Storm: Hurricane Katrina at Five
How we remember Katrina is how we’ll prepare for future disasters. Getting the story straight matters for justice—and for survival.
Rebecca Solnit
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How ACORN Helped Save NOLA
The anti-poverty group ACORN was crucial to recovery efforts after Hurricane Katrina hit.
John Atlas
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Crossing the Line
Women on the US-Mexico border seek alternatives to embattled abortion clinics.
Laura Tillman
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Doing Green Jobs Right
Activists in Boston shape energy policy through new community-labor alliances.
Amy B. Dean
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Obama Takes a Crack at Drug Reform
A new law narrows the gap in cocaine sentencing and signals a shift in priorities.
Ethan Nadelmann
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Editorial
For Digital Democracy
It’s hard to get charged up for a fight on behalf of net “neutrality.” But decisions made now about how we communicate online could warp every political debate in the future.
The Editors
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Pakistan: A Global Flood
Pundits are pushing aid to Pakistan because it’s good PR. Does anyone really think that if US helicopters drop water bottles in the south of Pakistan it will cancel the hatred for US drones in the north?
Jonathan Schell
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Noted.
John Nichols on the primary winners and losers, Ari Berman on governor’s races, and kudos for Katha Pollitt
Various Contributors
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America Hates Children
The right-wing "owns" sex—it’s always taught to children on their terms.
JoAnn Wypijewski
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Column
The Terrorists Win
Nine years after 9/11, hatred of Islam has infected many Americans. How else can we explain the opposition to an Islamic community center two blocks away from where the attacks took place?
Eric Alterman
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Books & the Arts
No Name or Too Many? On Javier Marías
In Javier Marías’s trilogy Your Face Tomorrow, the self is composed of borrowed languages and an uncertain voice.
William Deresiewicz
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An Art of Time
Rafael Ferrer and Christian Marclay prize an aesthetic of spontaneous responsiveness irrespective of subject.
Barry Schwabsky
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The Book of Amos: On Gideon Levy
Because of Gaza, "everything is tainted" in Israel, according to Gideon Levy.
Ben Ehrenreich
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Letters
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