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September 15, 2008 Issue
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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
OK, God, we know James Dobson asked his followers to pray for rain on Obama in Denver last week. But this storm in New Orleans isn't what anybody had in mind.
Michael Moore
It was a barely good week for the antiwar movement in Denver; peace voters face huge challenges in the election season ahead.
Tom Hayden
Minnesota's message to the GOP: we're all better off when we look after one another.
John Nichols
Moving to the center to woo undecided voters, Obama risks losing his greatest asset: authenticity.
Victor Navasky
Dems and the Constitution, dispatches from Denver, journos rescue our correspondent in Georgia.
The Editors
It could have been worse--a lot worse.
The Editors
Eight years ago, the people gave the GOP the keys to the country. It's time to take them back.
The Editors
Column
Why is it a good thing for Alaskans to get a cut of exorbitant oil company profits, but not the rest of us, if we are all part of one nation?
Robert Scheer
Will the Hillary diehards follow her lead and support Barack Obama?
Katha Pollitt
The initiating party for our next cold confrontation with Russia most certainly was the United States.
Alexander Cockburn
Now she's in her element.
Steve Brodner
Feature
Her appeal to a certain sector of the electorate lies in her willingness to take the law in her own hands--and use public power as a personal weapon.
Patricia J. Williams
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.
Gary Phillips
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.
Tom Hayden
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.
Chris Hayes
Since they got all the megastories wrong in Denver, here's a primer for the media horde as they descend on St. Paul.
Eric Alterman
Meet Working America: a self-declared mass organization with a working-class base and a strategy to win.
David Moberg
I came to the DNC as a middle-aged female Obama delegate eager to make peace with Hillary women, and I did not get off to a good start.
Cynthia Baughman
From 2016, a futurist looks back on 2008, where the seeds of the slow-mo apolcalypse now consuming the planet were planted.
John Feffer
The freeing of the "zeks" confronted Russia with living memories of the Terror.
Stephen F. Cohen
After Katrina, white parishes are zoning minorities right out of the reconstruction.
Lizzy Ratner
Citing security concerns, the Pentagon frowns on soldiers blogging about Iraq.
Ari Melber
Injured veterans continue their battles at home while fighting for the healthcare treatment they deserve.
Joshua Kors
Books & the Arts
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.
Tom Hayden
Pollster John Zogby's new book illuminates the changing nature of American values and lives.
Alexander Provan
A recent production of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes is a grim masterpiece of opera noir.
David Schiff
Salman Rushdie probes the limits of the imagination to produce his most coherent and readable novel.
William Deresiewicz
The freeing of the "zeks" confronted Russia with living memories of the Terror.
Stephen F. Cohen
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
Mahmoud Darwish
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