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GI Loses First Round in Canada Asylum Bid

Jeremy Hinzman fled north rather than be deployed in a war he regards as a “criminal enterprise.”

Alisa Solomon

Coke: The New Nike

A growing student movement is taking the company to task for its record on human rights around the globe.

Michael Blanding

Patriotism Is Nonpartisan

Challenging a mistaken war can take more courage than fighting one.

George McGovern

Security the Progressive Way

The lockdown strategy has made America less safe. there’s a better approach.

John Tirman

Letter From Kosovo

Backsliding in the Balkans.

Misha Glenny

The Minister of Minstrelsy

Meet Jesse Lee Peterson, who says what the right would like to, but can’t.

Max Blumenthal

Hugo Chávez and Petro Populism

What Venezuela's revolution is made of.

Christian Parenti

In Fact …

SHAKING UP THE UN

The Editors

Old Women in the Cold

My 91-year-old friend Alice, like many elderly women, has outlived her modest savings.

Ruth Rosen

Condoleezza Rice

Anita Kunz

Elite Protectionists

A man-bites-dog story of momentous implications is unfolding in Washington: The US multinational establishment, having successfully championed free-trade orthodoxy for decades, may now be flirtin

William Greider

It’s Easter: He Is Recut

No flaying below the belt: That’s the guiding principle behind the kinder, gentler version of Mel Gibson’s biblical blood fest, which has hit the cineplex in time for the Easter season.

Richard Goldstein

Missing WMD Report

When is a priority not a priority? When it’s after the election.

David Corn

The Schiavo Hypocrites

With their handling of the heart-wrenching Terri Schiavo case, George W. Bush and his Republican allies in tragedy exploitation were awash in the currency of Washington: hypocrisy.

The Editors

Democrats: MIA

After giving George W. Bush far too easy a ride in his first term, the Democratic leadership in Congress promised that the second term was going to be different.

The Editors

A Con Job by Pakistan’s Pal, George Bush

Trying to follow the US policy on the proliferation of nuclear weapons is like watching a three-card monte game on a city street corner. Except the stakes are higher.

Robert Scheer

In Re Rather: The Target Is Journalism

That the resignation of Dan Rather from his CBS News anchor job is a humiliation for the so-called liberal media (SCLM) is taken as a given across the conservative and mainstream press.

Eric Alterman

Habeas Corpus

There was an article in The New York Times Magazine not long ago about people who collect hyperrealistic “reborn” dolls.

Patricia J. Williams

Orange Alerts

You know the things I miss so much it hurts?
Those orange alerts.
Routines, our leaders said–and this was strange–
Should not be changed:

Calvin Trillin

Quartet for the End of Time

When David Spencer Ware was a baby, his mother pronounced a blessing over him. Go See the World became the title of the saxophonist’s first major-label record, for Columbia.

Brian Morton

Dreams and Delusions

California inspires people to think big, and to write big books. Take, for example, Kevin Starr.

Jon Wiener

The Imagination of Disaster

Saturday begins with its main character, Henry Perowne, getting out of bed because he’s unable to sleep and going to stand by an open window.

Lee Siegel

Patriotism Is Nonpartisan

Challenging a mistaken war can take more courage than fighting one.

George McGovern

It’s Easter: He Is Recut

No flaying below the belt: That’s the guiding principle behind the kinder, gentler version of Mel Gibson’s biblical blood fest, which has hit the cineplex in time for the Easter season.

Richard Goldstein

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