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How the Military Can Stop an Iran Attack
Peace activists are reaching out to US military officials to dampen the Bush Administration’s ardor for attacking Iran.
Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith
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Season of Scandals
Sportswriters hyperventilate over scandals big and small. But when a football hero and Bush critic is shot three times at close range in Afghanistan, by friendly fire, why does no one bat an eye?
Robert Lipsyte
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Rudy Admits Cellphone Addiction
His campaign slogan–“As I Was Saying, You Have My Undivided Attention”–is playing well with voters in areas where cell phone coverage is erratic.
Eric Kenning
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The Secret State of Torture
After professing to abhor torture, the Bush Justice Department secretly authorized it. And the consequences for us all are grave.
Tom Hayden
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South Africa’s Winter of Discontent
As the gap widens between rich and poor, millions of black workers are challenging African National Congress rule. How did a victory against apartheid turn into class war?
William Johnson
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We Count, They Don’t
The Bush Administration once professed there were no body counts in its war on terror. But in the metrics-driven post-surge accounting in Iraq, it turns out it’s been counting everything.
Tom Engelhardt
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The Courage of Anna Politkovskaya
A human rights activist remembers the courage of a crusading journalist, murdered one year ago.
Natalya Estemirova
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How to Fix Our Broken Economy
The political mainstream is beholden to sclerotic economic policies that serve only a fraction of the public’s interests.
Jeff Madrick
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The Making of a Climate Movement
Memo to Congress: the Arctic is on thin ice–and so are you.
Mark Hertsgaard
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The Fight to Save Congo’s Forests
A history of colonial neglect and endemic corruption has unleashed a lawless logging binge in the heart of Congo’s massive woodlands.
Christian Parenti
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Editorial
We Need a Nobel Prize in Law
Those who serve the law in dangerous and original ways are deserving of the recognition–and the protection–that a Nobel Prize would bring them.
Garrett Epps
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Getting Real About China
From product safety to piracy, human rights and the Olympic Games, isn’t it time we started being realistic about the way we treat China?
Jeffrey Wasserstrom
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John Templeton’s Universe
The right-wing philanthropist is pushing the phony science of positive psychology to numb Americans into smiley-faced acquiescence to the status quo.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Strange Culture
Federal authorities are prosecuting Steve Kurtz under the Patriot Act for using harmless bacteria in his artwork. A new film examines his ordeal.
Patricia J. Williams
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Noted.
The mainstream media’s smear campaign against Mohamed ElBaradei, John Nichols on former NEA chair John Frohnmayer, Peter C. Baker on presidential Facebooks, and more.
The Editors
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Blackwatergate
Blackwater USA’s Erik Prince and his State Department enablers have a lot of explaining to do.
Jeremy Scahill
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Let Dennis Debate
Kucinich may be too idealistic to be a presidential contender, but his voice needs to be heard.
The Editors
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Column
The Martyrdom of Che Guevara
The CIA’s role in his assassination managed to turn a failed–and flawed–guerrilla fighter into an enduring symbol of resistance to oppression.
Robert Scheer
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Bonehead U
Forget about raising money for actual teaching or research. Institutions of higher learning would rather troll for money for their sports teams.
Nicholas von Hoffman
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How Different Are the Top Three Dems?
Clinton, Edwards, Obama: behind the branding, they’re more similar than you think.
Katha Pollitt
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Toothless in Babylon
In the gray dawn of the twenty-first century, only a handful of lawmakers dare to stand up and be counted on matters of war and peace.
Alexander Cockburn
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Books & the Arts
Dirty Sexy Television
Who needs reality TV when you can revel in the decadence, dysfunction and dirty laundry of the fictional super-rich?
Simon Maxwell Apter
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Strange Culture
Federal authorities are prosecuting Steve Kurtz under the Patriot Act for using harmless bacteria in his artwork. A new film examines his ordeal.
Patricia J. Williams
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Dark Paradise
A trilogy of hard-boiled detective novels set in Marseilles contemplates the ethnic turmoil in modern-day France.
Charles Taylor
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For the Lawful Heirs
the people in question
dig quietly
with festal fork
and feather
a pause
means nothing
perhaps privilege
William Fuller
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