March 6, 2006

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Feature

Alice Walton’s Fig Leaf

Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton is on a buying spree, filling her Arkansas museum with America’s cultural treasures–a fig leaf that seeks to cover Wal-Mart’s naked greed and exploitation.
Rebecca Solnit
Envisioning Another World: Integración Desde Abajo

Immigrant advocates at the World Social Forum offered real alternatives to the narrow debate over how to fix the system.
Roberto Lovato
The World Social Forum: Protest or Celebration?

The World Social Forum in Caracas provided living proof of alternative political and social visions, but raised new questions about government co-optation.
Michael Blanding

Editorial

Farewell to Ground Zero

The structure of our Republic is at mortal risk. Will our Constitution survive or are we in the midst of a transmutation in which the balance of powers and our personal freedoms will be canceled?
Jonathan Schell
In Fact…

THE NSA NONHEARINGS
The Editors
The FISA File

Although his language is less blatant than Richard Nixon’s, George Bush is claiming the same imperial powers today that led Congress to pass the Foreign Intelligence Security Act.
Athan G. Theoharis
Only Pictures?

Two prominent cartoon artists discuss their perspective on the worldwide protests over the Muhammad cartoons.

Joe Sacco and Art Spiegelman
Bush’s New Storm

The Bush Administration failed to protect New Orleans and has yet to rescue its displaced citizens. We need an independent investigation to force accountability.
Michael Tisserand
Cherry-picked Intelligence

It’s now clear that Bush & Co. had no interest in reality-based intelligence to justify the decision to invade Iraq.
The Editors
Less Butter, More Guns

If the war in Iraq is winding down, why does the Pentagon need so much money? Because the Bush Administration has visions of a permanent war economy.
The Editors
The Latest Face Transplants

Steve Brodner
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Column

The Olympics We Missed

The Winter Olympics are to NBC what icebergs were to the Titanic. Jingoistic, condescending coverage missed the real drama.
Dave Zirin
In Defense of Free Thought

An Austrian court sends a crackpot historian to prison for denying the Holocaust; why shouldn’t Muslims protesting the Muhammad cartoons question a double standard?
Robert Scheer
Elegy for GM–and Ourselves

When General Motors goes down, it will take us all down with it.
Nicholas von Hoffman
The Gasbag Gap

Why expect political balance on talk TV when the networks are wedded to the belief that all the action is on the right?
Eric Alterman
Emotional Truth

In a DNA-driven search for biological roots, it behooves us to be less romantic about connecting with our ancestors. If we biologize our history, we will be forever less than we could be.
Patricia J. Williams
On the Report by House Republicans (Yes, Republicans) That Excoriates the Bush Administration for Its Fumbling Response to Hurricane Katrina

Michael Brown is just one of many members of Team Bush who did a heckuva job.
Calvin Trillin

Books & the Arts

Alice Walton’s Fig Leaf

Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton is on a buying spree, filling her Arkansas museum with America’s cultural treasures–a fig leaf that seeks to cover Wal-Mart’s naked greed and exploitation.
Rebecca Solnit
Labor Pains

Robert Fitch’s Solidarity for Sale exposes corruption as the cause of the current crisis in American labor.
Kim Phillips-Fein
The Man Who Heard It All

Richard Taruskin’s Oxford History of Western Music reviews the world of Western art music, expressing the magnificence and melancholy of its own age.
Paul Griffiths
The Palestinian Patient

Gate of the Sun follows the odyssey of Palestinians driven to refugee camps in Lebanon by Israeli forces in 1948.
Raja Shehadeh
Emotional Truth

In a DNA-driven search for biological roots, it behooves us to be less romantic about connecting with our ancestors. If we biologize our history, we will be forever less than we could be.
Patricia J. Williams
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Letters

Letters

PLAN D–D FOR DISGUSTED

Douglaston, NY
Trudy Lieberman , Daphne Eviatar , Our Readers and Heather Rogers

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March 6, 2006

Feature

Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton is on a buying spree, filling her Arkansas museum with America’s cultural treasures–a fig leaf that seeks to cover Wal-Mart’s naked greed and exploitation.

Immigrant advocates at the World Social Forum offered real alternatives to the narrow debate over how to fix the system.

The World Social Forum in Caracas provided living proof of alternative political and social visions, but raised new questions about government co-optation.

Editorial

The structure of our Republic is at mortal risk. Will our Constitution survive or are we in the midst of a transmutation in which the balance of powers and our personal freedoms will be canceled?

THE NSA NONHEARINGS

Although his language is less blatant than Richard Nixon’s, George Bush is claiming the same imperial powers today that led Congress to pass the Foreign Intelligence Security Act.

Two prominent cartoon artists discuss their perspective on the worldwide protests over the Muhammad cartoons.

The Bush Administration failed to protect New Orleans and has yet to rescue its displaced citizens. We need an independent investigation to force accountability.

It’s now clear that Bush & Co. had no interest in reality-based intelligence to justify the decision to invade Iraq.

If the war in Iraq is winding down, why does the Pentagon need so much money? Because the Bush Administration has visions of a permanent war economy.

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Column

The Winter Olympics are to NBC what icebergs were to the Titanic. Jingoistic, condescending coverage missed the real drama.

An Austrian court sends a crackpot historian to prison for denying the Holocaust; why shouldn’t Muslims protesting the Muhammad cartoons question a double standard?

When General Motors goes down, it will take us all down with it.

Why expect political balance on talk TV when the networks are wedded to the belief that all the action is on the right?

In a DNA-driven search for biological roots, it behooves us to be less romantic about connecting with our ancestors. If we biologize our history, we will be forever less than we could be.

Michael Brown is just one of many members of Team Bush who did a heckuva job.

Books & the Arts

Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton is on a buying spree, filling her Arkansas museum with America’s cultural treasures–a fig leaf that seeks to cover Wal-Mart’s naked greed and exploitation.

Robert Fitch’s Solidarity for Sale exposes corruption as the cause of the current crisis in American labor.

Richard Taruskin’s Oxford History of Western Music reviews the world of Western art music, expressing the magnificence and melancholy of its own age.

Gate of the Sun follows the odyssey of Palestinians driven to refugee camps in Lebanon by Israeli forces in 1948.

In a DNA-driven search for biological roots, it behooves us to be less romantic about connecting with our ancestors. If we biologize our history, we will be forever less than we could be.

The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.

Letters

PLAN D–D FOR DISGUSTED Douglaston, NY

PLAN D–D FOR DISGUSTED

Douglaston, NY