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Feature
The Secret Behind the Surge
Bob Woodward’s new book on the Bush years in Iraq raises the possibility that extrajudicial killings–not the surge–were the biggest factor in reducing violence.
Tom Hayden
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9/11 Plus Seven
Seven years after the attacks, the Bush Administration’s strategy to transform the world has squandered our resources, buried us in debt and poses a greater strategic threat than Osama bin Laden ever did.
Andrew J. Bacevich
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From Organizer to Elected Official
It’s not that big a leap from the public service work done by community organizers and the pragmatic work of coalition-building done by elected officials.
Peter Dreier
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GOP Mocks Public Service
Mocking community organizers, the GOP attacks a tradition of collective self-help that’s made America a more humane country.
Peter Dreier and John Atlas
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Fees for Criminal Offenders Create a Vicious Cycle
As they serve prison time, offenders are slapped with fees they can't pay, creating a vicious cycle.
Emily Jane Goodman
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War Is Personal
A 25-year-old certified medic, home from Iraq, can’t escape the horrors of war.
Eugene Richards
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Israel Turns 60
Israeli writers and intellectuals look at their nation and its problems in a more nuanced and realistic way than most Americans.
Eric Alterman
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Editorial
The Truth Can Move Us Forward
We suffer not only from the loss of innocent life on 9/11, but because the attacks became the rationale for an unjust war. It’s time to face the truth.
Dennis Kucinich
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A Conservative Confidence Game
The Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac crisis strips the clothes off the Emperor of Markets.
Deborah Stone
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Sarah, Will UB My BFF?
U R so right: With the beehive and schoolmarm glasses, people really take you seriously!
Annabelle Gurwitch
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Slow Food for Thought
Affluent foodies embrace sustainable agriculture, oblivious that ordinary people–especially the poor–don’t have a seat at the table.
Eric Schlosser
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Column
McCain and the Mortgage Meltdown
John McCain’s fingerprints are all over our current financial crisis.
Robert Scheer
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State Capitalism Comes to America
A historic line has been crossed. With no debate or commitment to policy or principle, an enormous segment of the American economy has been turned over to the government.
Nicholas von Hoffman
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Mexico’s Drug Problem–and Ours
Drug-related violence tearing Mexican society apart. Is America next?
Nicholas von Hoffman
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Q&A with Jim Brown
The Hall of Fame football legend discusses his experiences working with gangs in the black community and why the death penalty just doesn’t work.
Dave Zirin
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Sarah Palin’s Shotgun Politics
The vile politics of the party of abstinence stepped up to suffocate Bristol Palin in its embrace.
Gary Younge
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New Orleans: The City That Won’t Be Ignored
Hurricane Gustav should have been political rat poison for the GOP; instead, it became an argument for drilling.
Naomi Klein
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The Times, They Have A-Changed
Nothing short of a divine thunderbolt will get Obama’s message through to the brain-dead media establishment.
Eric Alterman
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Books & the Arts
Back Talk: Elizabeth Royte
Environmental writer Elizabeth Royte plumbs our obsession with bottled water.
Christine Smallwood
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We Colonials: Sodomy Laws in America
William Eskridge’s Dishonorable Passions is the first comprehensive history of sodomy law in America.
Margot Canaday
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An Unlikely King: Hussein in War and Peace
An authoritative new biography of Jordan’s King Hussein offers an absorbing diplomatic history of the Middle East.
Bernard Avishai
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All Aboard
Tumbled down an incline at Bash Bish Broke many things; it was still spring
Bernadette Mayer
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Letters
Letters
Readers write back about the debut of a sex column, MoveOn at ten, the demise of newspapers and more.
Our Readers
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Crossword
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Puzzle No. 3136
ACROSS
1 and 4 Does it involve going to the glaziers for goods? (6-8)
Frank W. Lewis