November 10, 2003
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Feature
A Watershed Strike
The retail food workers strike in California may be the first in a series of battles that could shape the future of labor-management relations throughout the US.
Peter Dreier and Kelly Candaele
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Against the War but Married to It
Opposition to the war among military families is bubbling beneath the surface.
Karen Houppert
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Editorial
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The ‘Kennedy Factor’
Arnold Schwarzenegger has sold himself to his fans as a raging Republican Terminator.
Tom Hayden
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Camp Wellstone
Paul Wellstone won elections as a progressive by energizing and mobilizing a large base, staying close to community organizing efforts of all kinds and fearlessly pressing a bold agenda.
Jeff Blodgett
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Wellstone in 2004
During the two years when he was exploring a bid for the 2000 Democratic presidential nomination, Paul Wellstone spent a lot of time trying to figure out how a progressive could get elected to
John Nichols
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Strange Bedfellows
One reason the Bush Administration gave for going to war in Iraq was Saddam Hussein’s alleged ties to terrorists.
Laura Rozen
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Big Bucks in Iraq
In early October, Iraq’s US-appointed Governing Council awarded the country’s first mobile phone licenses to three companies from the Middle East.
Tim Shorrock
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Many Peaces, One War
Iraq lies in ruin, the US military occupation is generating a sustained guerrilla resistance, crime is rampant in Baghdad and an Iraqi civil war along ethnic and religious lines is a real possi
Christian Parenti
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The Growing Disquiet
In the end, George W. Bush got Congress to approve the $87 billion he insisted on for the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq.
The Editors
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Column
Scapegoating Illegal Workers Won’t Seal the Borders
As long as firms are willing to hire them, immigrants will come.
Robert Scheer
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Krugman’s World
Enter the world of Paul Krugman, a world either dark (the eras of Bush I and Bush II) or bathed in light (when Bill was king).
Alexander Cockburn
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Books & the Arts
What Are They Reading?
Kingdom of Shadows, the sixth of Alan Furst’s novels of historical espionage fiction, was hard for me to put down–and when I did, I couldn’t wait to pick it up again.
Peter I. Fifield
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The Avengers
Ghosts are notorious for getting stuck in time. Having lost track of the ongoing world, they will revisit certain hours as obsessively as they haunt a fatal spot.
Stuart Klawans
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A Kiss in Java
In a broad square not far from the center of Jakarta, a large obelisk of concrete soars into the sky.
Patrick Smith
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Starting Out in the ’50s
The best memoirs of recent years reveal “The Way We Live Now” as well as or better than most contemporary fiction.
Dan Wakefield
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How the Other Half Learns
Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom have long been pillars of highbrow conservatism in America.
Peter Schrag
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Letters
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