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September 15, 2008 Issue

David Schiff on Benjamin Britten, Victor Navasky on being a convention junkie, the Editors on Joe Biden…

Cover art by: Cover photograph of Sgt. Juan Jimenez, courtesy of Jimenez; design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels.

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Editorial

Noted.

Dems and the Constitution, dispatches from Denver, journos rescue our correspondent in Georgia.

Column

Letters

Feature

Our Man Countryman

This Week: Ex-black ops agent Dieter Countryman comes to terms with a life misspent as the very dogs of chaos he helped unleash come back to bite him.

The Problem Is Empire

The challenge to the peace movement is not to liberalize the empire; the task is to peacefully and steadily bring it to an end--and make democracy safe for the world.

Blue-Collar Republicans

The Republican Party has set itself firmly against the agenda of the labor movement. So to observe Labor Day in St. Paul was a strange experience indeed.

Apocalypse Later

From 2016, a futurist looks back on 2008, where the seeds of the slow-mo apolcalypse now consuming the planet were planted.

Books & the Arts

The Problem Is Empire

The challenge to the peace movement is not to liberalize the empire; the task is to peacefully and steadily bring it to an end--and make democracy safe for the world.

And We Love Life

And we love life if we find a way to it. We dance in between martyrs and raise a minaret for violet or palm trees. We love life if we find a way to it. And we steal from the silkwo… Read More

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