February 21, 2005
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Feature
GIs Against Torture
Low-ranking soldiers are taking the blame in the torture scandal while higher-ups get a pass.
John Sifton
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PNAC’s Happy Warriors
The neocon think tank’s recent call for an increase in troop strength is myopic.
Jason Vest
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Taking the Offensive on Wealth
Strategies that unite the vast majority against a tiny elite are sure to win.
Gar Alperovitz
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Our Godless Constitution
The faith of our Founding Fathers definitely wasn’t Christianity.
Brooke Allen
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Editorial
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The Dreams of George Bush
The boldness of Bush’s ambition is matched only by the wrongheadedness of his priorities.
Robert L. Borosage
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Cartoon Wars
Once upon a time, a psychiatrist named Fredric Wertham went on a tear over Wonder Woman.
Richard Goldstein
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FCC: It Could Get Worse
On the long list of resignations of Cabinet members, agency heads and political appointees that has accompanied the launch of the second Bush term, no member of the Administration’s team left und
John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney
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Hope and Reality in Iraq
The determination and hopefulness of Iraqis on election day were captured in many dispatches, none better than in one by British journalist Robert Fisk.
The Editors
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Retirement Security Fight
Call out the fifes, sound the bugles, strike on the drums. With the State of the Union behind us, the Battle for Social Security now officially begins–again.
The Editors
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Column
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Summers of Our Discontent
As the saying goes, behind every successful woman is a man who is surprised. Harvard president Larry Summers apparently is that man.
Katha Pollitt
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Ward Churchill and the Mad Dogs of the Right
When it comes to left and right, meaning the contrapuntal voices of sanity and dementia, we’re meant to keep two sets of books.
Alexander Cockburn
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Democracy Flowers in the Middle East
So now this election is done.
What will follow it–maybe a
Reversal so women can drive
Cars in Saudi Arabia?Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
My Life as a Man
I’ve heard Argentines say that Buenos Aires is more densely populated by psychoanalysts than anyplace else in the world.
Stuart Klawans
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A Buddha for the Blue States
Scholars of the New Testament speculate that the Gospel of Mark was the first of the canonical Gospels to be composed, sometime between 68 and 73 CE, or thirty-five to forty years after the Cruci
Donald S. Lopez Jr.
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In Cold Blood
Daphne Eviatar has written on Africa for the New York Times Magazine and the Boston Globe, among other publications. She last wrote for The Nation on Angola.
Daphne Eviatar
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Uneasy Rider
It’s not often that a new style appears in American prose, but this is what happened with John Haskell’s first book, a collection of short stories called I am not Jackson Pollock.
Benjamin Kunkel
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Our Godless Constitution
The faith of our Founding Fathers definitely wasn’t Christianity.
Brooke Allen
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Cartoon Wars
Once upon a time, a psychiatrist named Fredric Wertham went on a tear over Wonder Woman.
Richard Goldstein
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