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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
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Envisioning Another World: IntegraciĆ³n Desde Abajo
Immigrant advocates at the World Social Forum offered real alternatives to the narrow debate over how to fix the system.
Roberto Lovato
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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
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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
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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
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Only Pictures?
Two prominent cartoon artists discuss their perspective on the worldwide protests over the Muhammad cartoons.
Joe Sacco and Art Spiegelman
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Elegy for GM–and Ourselves
When General Motors goes down, it will take us all down with it.
Nicholas von Hoffman
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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
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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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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
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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
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Labor Pains
Robert Fitch’s Solidarity for Sale exposes corruption as the cause of the current crisis in American labor.
Kim Phillips-Fein
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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
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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
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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