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Feature
The Boxer Rebellion
Her votes thrilled supporters and put some backbone into Senate Democrats.
John Nichols
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Editorial
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Letter From Ground Zero
Introspection is not the purpose of this occasional column, but a moment of it seems appropriate in the wake of the election recently held in Iraq.
Jonathan Schell
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The UN ‘Scandal’ Report
Conservatives’ persistent complaints about the United Nations’ alleged lack of transparency are belied by the Interim Report of Paul Volcker’s Independent Inquiry Committee into the Oil for Food
Ian Williams
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Democrats & Withdrawal
In the time since the historic election in Iraq, several liberal Democrats in Congress have been trying to kick-start a national debate–or at least a Congressional debate–on withdrawing US troo
David Corn
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Indecent Proposal
America’s budget is more than a blizzard of incomprehensible numbers. Our values are reflected in its priorities: It is a statement of what kind of nation we are and what we hope to be.
The Editors
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Column
What We Don’t Know About 9/11 Hurts Us
Would George W. Bush have been re-elected President if the public understood how much responsibility his Administration bears for allowing the 9/11 attacks to succeed?
Robert Scheer
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Getting the Purple Finger
“The Iraqi people gave America the biggest ‘thank you’ in the best way we could have hoped for.” Reading this election analysis from Betsy Hart, a columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service, I
Naomi Klein
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Better Red Than Dead?
The United States government is currently run by a group of people for whom verifiable truth holds no particular privilege over ideologically inspired nonsense.
Eric Alterman
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Power and the Word
A few weeks ago, if you recall, Britain’s Prince Harry was having himself a high old time at a Colonials and Natives party to which he came costumed as a Nazi officer.
Patricia J. Williams
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A Tabloid Reader Responds to Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Announcement That He’s Appealing the Decision Making Gay Marriage Legal in New York
Though Mike must do what he thinks right,
A lot of us think it’s a pity,
Since we were hoping SpongeBob might
Decide to marry in the city.Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
Visible Man
The Jack Johnson story is about many things, but none more emphatically than the meaning of manhood to the Anglo-Saxon imagination at the turn of the century.
Greg Tate
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Show Me the Money!
Toward the end of the undervalued 1979 movie adaptation of former pro football receiver Peter Gent’s undervalued 1973 novel, North Dallas Forty, a beat, bent lineman, played by the late Jo
Gene Seymour
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Grand Illusion
André Malraux incarnated a certain ideal of “the French intellectual.” A writer of international renown, he distinguished himself as a man of action before going on to become an eye-catchi
Stefan Collini
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Letters
Letters
UKRAINE’S POLL: ‘THE REAL STORY’
New York City
Stephen F. Cohen, Liza Featherstone and Our Readers