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September 25, 2006 Issue

Alexander Cockburn analyzes 9/11 conspiracy buffs, Eric Boehlert looks at the Bush-manipulated media, Gary Younge reviews Londonstani.

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Editorial

A Passion for Pluto

Pluto's demotion from a planet to a dwarf isn't the work of mean-spirited Grinches. It is a necessary part of the same process that got Pluto discovered in the first place.

The Real Tragedy

Five years after the attack, Americans are impatient and angry about what has been done in their name. Our national tragedy is not September 11 but the war in Iraq, an agony that p...

A Just Response

The most effective response to terrorism involves nonmilitary actions in cooperation with the global community and within a framework of domestic and international law.

Knock on Wood

The Bush Administration's illegitimate use of renditions, disappearances, torture and an illegal war has fostered the growth of a loose-knit global band of fanatics willing to do u...

The Path From 9/11

The fifth anniversary of 9/11 prompts grief and sadness, but also anger. We must free ourselves from the idea that the "war on terror" is an organizing principle for our foreign po...

Column

Failing the Test

President Bush was correct when he said that not since the cold war has the nation been so tested. But the test lies not in the terror threat but in his Administration's incompeten...

Feature

Bush’s Sitcom Nominee

Warren Bell honed his reputation writing sitcoms and lobbing politically incorrect bombs for National Review Online. Now he's Bush's nominee for the Corporation for Public B...

9/11 in a Movie-Made World

What if the Twin Towers hadn't collapsed? Would the Bush Administration have so easily advanced its fear-inspired "war on terror" without the images that played on a culture's secr...

Books & the Arts

Stargazer

Andy Warhol's eye for significant banality transformed the familiar into art. Ric Burns's new American Masters documentary traces the roots of Warhol's smirking genius.

Bush’s Sitcom Nominee

Warren Bell honed his reputation writing sitcoms and lobbing politically incorrect bombs for National Review Online. Now he's Bush's nominee for the Corporation for Public B...

Londonistan Calling

Gautam Malkani's new novel explores the cross-section of youth culture, heritage and identity in London's polyglot, postcolonial neighborhoods.

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