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March 17, 2008
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Feature
Winning Votes, Hearts & Minds
Hillary Clinton may have won Texas, but the huge crowds participating for the first time in the primary and caucuses were there mainly because of Barack Obama.
Lou Dubose
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Milk Wars
As struggling dairy farmers seek profits by responding to rising consumer demand for raw milk, regulators are taking a hard line.
David E. Gumpert
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The Other Side of the McCain Lobbyist Scandal
A Pittsburgh public television activist explains how McCain broke the rules while doing the bidding of a media mogul.
Jerold M. Starr
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Lame Duck Pitcher
Roger Clemens has done his damage, to himself and to baseball–and we will see him go down.
Robert Lipsyte
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X, X, Baby…
Our Story: Congresswoman Kang pays a visit on her aging slacker brother, and learns more than she’d care to know.
Gary Phillips
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A Season of Change in Texas
As a crucial primary looms, Democrats in Texas have gotten the Party started again, as the state continues its remarkable shift from red to blue.
Mary Mapes
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The Dean Legacy
The DNC chair has energized aging, ailing or previously nonexistent state parties.
Ari Berman
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Postcards From Ohio
The white working-class vote is on the line–so is the myth of Clinton-era good times.
JoAnn Wypijewski
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Obama’s Mercenary Position
He calls private security forces “unaccountable” but may use them in Iraq. Meanwhile, Clinton wants to ban them. UPDATED
Jeremy Scahill
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Editorial
What Makes Ralph Run
Ralph Nader explains the reasons why he must run in 2008. They haven’t changed since 2004.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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Rough Trade Debate
It’s not enough for candidates to talk tough about the impact of NAFTA. Workers need realistic remedies.
John Nichols
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The Real McCain Scandal
He doesn’t just take money from lobbyists–they’re running his campaign.
The Editors
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Noted.
Joseph Cirincione on shooting down satellites, John Nichols on Ralph Nader, Ari Melber tracks the net.
The Editors
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Morning in America
As voters choose sides in a momentous election, feminists call on women to reject the race-gender split.
The Nation
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Column
Iraq’s Iranian Lovefest
Ahmadinejad’s triumphal visit to Baghdad highlights the abject failure of the Bush doctrine. But US media yawned.
Robert Scheer
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Obama, Being Called a Muslim Is Not a Smear
He should denounce the attacks themselves as racist propaganda.
Naomi Klein
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Less Whining, More Dirt!
Obama can take the rhetorical high road, but he should have some mean stokers in the engine room.
Alexander Cockburn
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Books & the Arts
Two Angry Men
Beyond the sensationalism and the sound bites, the Duke rape case reveals the perils of unchecked prosecutorial power.
Robert Perkinson
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The Stravinsky Shuffle
Why listen to Stravinksy in sequence when you can click shuffle on your iPod and rediscover the music anew?
David Schiff
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Patriot’s Inventory
a prisoner is bound and gagged in free fall
the backdoor gift exposes an exchange rift
while a cognitive switch haunts its own turncoatAnne Waldman
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Banana Kings
The history of banana cultivation is rife with labor and environmental abuse, corporate skulduggery and genetic experiments gone awry.
Emily Biuso
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Good Faith
Two authors posit very different views on the problem of religious conflict in a supposedly secular age.
Daniel Lazare
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Letters