October 2, 2006

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Feature

The Real Crisis in Uganda

The cease-fire between Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army is only a first step in resolving the humanitarian crisis. The West must push for the release of 2 million Acholis still languishing in government camps.
Salim Lone
Life After Net Neutrality: Replaced By a Chimp?

If Senator Ted Stevens defies mounting public opposition and succeeds in killing net neutrality, expect the free flow of online content to be replaced by lowbrow corporate infotainment.
Jeffrey Chester
Torture and the Content of our Character

The standoff between the Senate and the Bush Administration over military tribunals, torture and war crimes tests core legal and moral issues and will determine the kind of country America wishes to be.
Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith
China’s Neoliberal Dynasty

As China’s economy surges forward, so does the pileup of social contradictions: pollution, migration, crime and family dysfunction.
Peter Kwong
Congo Journey

It was the strangest journey of my life, and it will always be. I was looking for fictional characters I had invented, in a country I had never visited.

John le Carré
What Can Sherrod Brown Do for the Democrats?

The road to the Democrats’ renewal runs through Ohio, and Sherrod Brown is on it, looking for the towns his party forgot and the voters who got away.
John Nichols

Editorial

Bush’s Selective Perception

President Bush’s address to the UN General Assembly was less disdainful than earlier speeches, but it shined a light on the President’s willful blindness to the complexity of the problems facing the Mideast and the world.
Ian Williams
The UN After Lebanon

The UN’s mixed record on the war in Lebanon proves we should lower our expectations of what it can meaningfully achieve.
Richard Falk
CA Leads on Climate

California’s global warming initiative shows how far ahead the state is compared with the federal government. But it also reveals how America lags behind the rest of the world.
Mark Hertsgaard
No Clear Antiwar Signal

Anyone looking for a signal from the primaries that Democrats will be a clear antiwar party didn’t get it.
John Nichols
A Scandal If Not a Crime

The White House behaved unethically by exposing Valerie Plame’s identity. Escaping prosecution is not the same as escaping judgment.
The Editors
Lawless ‘Compromises’

Prime midyear election issues: Torture and eavesdropping are illegal. We are a nation founded on the rule of law.
The Editors
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Column

Render Unto Syria

Will anyone in the somnambulant White House press corps dare ask the President why he would “render” a Canadian to Syria to be tortured and imprisoned without charges?
Robert Scheer
Sneakers for Social Justice?

New York Knicks point guard Stephon Marbury is getting props with a $14.98 sneaker designed to appeal to low-income kids. But the criticism he’s endured over sweatshop labor shows it’s hard to do good.
Dave Zirin
Lying About 9/11? Easy as ABC

Why did the network humiliate its news division, ignore historians and insult Americans with a 9/11 docudrama that it knew was a tissue of lies?
Eric Alterman
A Klatch of Civilizations

As Survivor races to the bottom by dividing this season’s contenders into race-based tribes, perhaps we can look to Starbucks for new models of how to blend in.
Patricia J. Williams
George Bush Explains His Policy on Torture To Someone Who Is Being Waterboarded

Don’t worry–it only feels like you’re drowning.
Calvin Trillin

Books & the Arts

Short Takes

Reviews of Half of a Yellow Sun, St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves and The City Is a Rising Tide.
Fatin Abbas and Christine Smallwood
As If I Had Become Happy

As if I had become happy: I went back. I pressed
the doorbell more than once, and waited…
(perhaps I am late. No one is opening the door, not
a groan in the hallway).
Mahmoud Darwish
Unnatural Disaster

Three new books reappraise the massive earthquake of 1906, which was felt across an area of 400,000 miles and leveled much of San Francisco.
Ari Kelman
The Lives They Led

Claire Messud’s The Emperor’s Children is a superb comedy of manners, a richly tragicomic view of three thirtysomething Ivy Leaguers in the days leading up to 9/11.
Kate Levin
The Illusionist

Alexander Stille’s The Sack of Rome explores how Silvio Berlusconi subverted Italy’s government, history and culture.
Tobias Jones
Music of My Mind

John Gennari’s Blowin’ Hot and Cool looks at the intimate but fractious relationship between jazz luminaries and their critics.
David Yaffe
Lying About 9/11? Easy as ABC

Why did the network humiliate its news division, ignore historians and insult Americans with a 9/11 docudrama that it knew was a tissue of lies?
Eric Alterman
A Klatch of Civilizations

As Survivor races to the bottom by dividing this season’s contenders into race-based tribes, perhaps we can look to Starbucks for new models of how to blend in.
Patricia J. Williams
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Letters

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Hillsborough, NC
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October 2, 2006

Feature

The cease-fire between Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army is only a first step in resolving the humanitarian crisis. The West must push for the release of 2 million Acholis still languishing in government camps.

If Senator Ted Stevens defies mounting public opposition and succeeds in killing net neutrality, expect the free flow of online content to be replaced by lowbrow corporate infotainment.

The standoff between the Senate and the Bush Administration over military tribunals, torture and war crimes tests core legal and moral issues and will determine the kind of country America wishes to be.

As China’s economy surges forward, so does the pileup of social contradictions: pollution, migration, crime and family dysfunction.

It was the strangest journey of my life, and it will always be. I was looking for fictional characters I had invented, in a country I had never visited.

The road to the Democrats’ renewal runs through Ohio, and Sherrod Brown is on it, looking for the towns his party forgot and the voters who got away.

Editorial

President Bush’s address to the UN General Assembly was less disdainful than earlier speeches, but it shined a light on the President’s willful blindness to the complexity of the problems facing the Mideast and the world.

The UN’s mixed record on the war in Lebanon proves we should lower our expectations of what it can meaningfully achieve.

California’s global warming initiative shows how far ahead the state is compared with the federal government. But it also reveals how America lags behind the rest of the world.

Anyone looking for a signal from the primaries that Democrats will be a clear antiwar party didn’t get it.

The White House behaved unethically by exposing Valerie Plame’s identity. Escaping prosecution is not the same as escaping judgment.

Prime midyear election issues: Torture and eavesdropping are illegal. We are a nation founded on the rule of law.

GET UNLIMITED DIGITAL ACCESS FOR LESS THAN $3 A MONTH!

Column

Will anyone in the somnambulant White House press corps dare ask the President why he would “render” a Canadian to Syria to be tortured and imprisoned without charges?

New York Knicks point guard Stephon Marbury is getting props with a $14.98 sneaker designed to appeal to low-income kids. But the criticism he’s endured over sweatshop labor shows it’s hard to do good.

Why did the network humiliate its news division, ignore historians and insult Americans with a 9/11 docudrama that it knew was a tissue of lies?

As Survivor races to the bottom by dividing this season’s contenders into race-based tribes, perhaps we can look to Starbucks for new models of how to blend in.

Don’t worry–it only feels like you’re drowning.

Books & the Arts

Reviews of Half of a Yellow Sun, St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves and The City Is a Rising Tide.

As if I had become happy: I went back. I pressed the doorbell more than once, and waited… (perhaps I am late. No one is opening the door, not a groan in the hallway).

Three new books reappraise the massive earthquake of 1906, which was felt across an area of 400,000 miles and leveled much of San Francisco.

Claire Messud’s The Emperor’s Children is a superb comedy of manners, a richly tragicomic view of three thirtysomething Ivy Leaguers in the days leading up to 9/11.

Alexander Stille’s The Sack of Rome explores how Silvio Berlusconi subverted Italy’s government, history and culture.

John Gennari’s Blowin’ Hot and Cool looks at the intimate but fractious relationship between jazz luminaries and their critics.

Why did the network humiliate its news division, ignore historians and insult Americans with a 9/11 docudrama that it knew was a tissue of lies?

As Survivor races to the bottom by dividing this season’s contenders into race-based tribes, perhaps we can look to Starbucks for new models of how to blend in.

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

Letters

MILITARY FAMILY DIARY Hillsborough, NC

As if I had become happy: I went back. I pressed
the doorbell more than once, and waited…
(perhaps I am late. No one is opening the door, not
a groan in the hallway).

MILITARY FAMILY DIARY

Hillsborough, NC