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Feature
Losing Ground
Black farmers and the agrarian culture they embody are rapidly disappearing.
Habiba Alcindor
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Baghdad Under Siege
A growing detainee population, but still no control–two years after the US invasion, the war continues.
David Enders
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Blogging, Journalism and Credibility
Journalists, bloggers, news executives, media scholars and librarians try to make sense of the new media environment.
Rebecca MacKinnon
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The Mideast Comes to Columbia
The current battle is the latest in a larger, ideologically driven conflict.
Scott Sherman
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A Student Bill of Fights
The right takes aim at the ivory tower–brandishing a new legislative agenda.
Kevin Mattson
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Editorial
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‘Ownership’ Swindle
George W. Bush hasn’t even spelled out the details of his plan to privatize Social Security and it’s already in trouble, even among some Republican lawmakers–for good reason.
David Moberg
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The Captive Mind
Since September 11, we’ve heard a lot about the “intelligence failures” that left the United States unprepared for the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
The Editors
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Anger in Italy
Giuliana Sgrena, an intrepid journalist for the left-wing newspaper Il Manifesto who had become an icon of national unity during her twenty-eight days as a hostage in Iraq, was returning h
Lucia Annunziata
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Column
Life, Death and Cynical Grandstanding
Thankfully, Americans see right through the exploitation of Terri Schiavo.
Robert Scheer
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Invisible Women
Women don’t shout. Women don’t like politics. Women shrink from intellectual debate. Women don’t try.
Katha Pollitt
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Three-Card Monte and the One-Party State
How lionlike the Democrats sound as they circle around Social Security, roaring their defiance!
Alexander Cockburn
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George W. Bush, the Lion of Baghdad, Demands That Syria Withdraw From Lebanon
You must withdraw, since nations can’t
Install their troops in other places
To change regimes that they don’t like.
Except, of course, in certain cases.Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
Tipsy Turvy
Like a melodrama or a political tract–genres it sometimes resembles, in an honorable way–Jonathan Nossiter’s documentary Mondovino has a villain you can hiss at.
Stuart Klawans
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Finding Neverland
At this writing, the first prosecution witnesses have begun testimony in the case of People v. Michael Joe Jackson.
Jody Rosen
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