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Feature
A Devil’s Bargain
The United States may well have its way and exclude Venezuela from the UN Security Council, in retribution for Hugo Chávez’s diabolical roast of George W. Bush. But doesn’t the world have larger issues to worry about?
Ian Williams
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Netroots Challenge Dems’ Electoral Strategy
Democratic House candidates who once were long shots now have a crack at winning. Will party power-brokers lend them a hand?
Ari Melber
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Google, YouTube and You
The Google/YouTube merger is not just a big media deal: It’s the leading edge of a data-driven marketing system that will follow our every move and immerse us in interactive marketing messages.
Jeffrey Chester
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The Coming Gay Republican Purge
How will the GOP woo back values voters after the Foley scandal? How about a purge of gay Republicans in Congress? That’s the Rev. Don Wildmon’s idea.
Max Blumenthal
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Needed: A New Security Plan
The failure of Bush’s foreign policy should open the way for Democrats to present substantial alternatives and rethink what makes us safe. Sadly, that is not happening.
William D. Hartung
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Laboring Toward Election Day
Despite the split following the 2004 election, labor groups are gearing up for the November elections like never before.
David Moberg
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Pelosi’s Moment
If Democrats take control of the House, they could revitalize national politics by convincing reluctant senators and presidential candidates to embrace a more progressive agenda.
William Greider
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Who’s Running Afghan Policy?
Even if the United States has the will to do the hard work necessary to rebuild Afghanistan, there are few signs that senior Administration officials are engaged.
David Corn
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Taliban Rising
If the corruption of Karzai’s government is Afghanistan’s new cancer, then the Taliban are increasingly seen as chemotherapy: an unpleasant but necessary remedy.
Christian Parenti
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Editorial
Pamuk’s Prize
If Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk is a political writer, it is by virtue of his sympathy for what is old and faded, for what no longer matters, or what never did.
Maria Margaronis
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Microcredit, Macro Issues
The Swedish Academy bestowed this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to Muhammad Yunus, the father of microcredit. It’s easy to believe Yunus’s low-interest loans to the poor are a silver bullet against global economic injustice. But it’s not that simple.
Walden Bello
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Greasing the Skids
OK, market forces control oil prices. But market forces–with a lot of push from Republicans–are driving down the price of gas. And you can be sure they’ll rise again after the election.
Nomi Prins
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Israel’s Cassandra
If Israel is to fulfill the Zionist vision of being a state like any other, it must take responsibility for the ever-more explosive Middle East.
Arno Mayer
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Anna Politkovskaya
The killing of Anna Politkovskaya has rallied her journalistic colleagues and fellow citizens in a way few other recent events have.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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Ban’s First Challenge?
South Korea’s quiet-spoken and principled Ban Ki-moon, who has just been nominated to replace Kofi Annan as the UN Secretary General, may find it difficult to confront US unilateralism.
Ian Williams
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Bush Busts Unions
Bush’s NLRB has redefined what it means to be a supervisor, and as a result some 8 million healthcare, construction and manufacturing workers no longer have the right to organize. Labor plans to fight back.
The Editors
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Shock Waves From Kilju
A forgetful world was reminded this week that Kim Jong Il now holds in his hand the same pitiless weapon possessed by a growing number of nations.
Jonathan Schell
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Column
The Killing Fields of Iraq
The carnage the US has visited upon Iraq in the name of fighting terror has taken more than 600,000 lives. We are not building democracy, we are creating mayhem.
Robert Scheer
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Escape From Iraq
Bring back Saddam. Spring him from the slammer and put the old dictator back to work. Otherwise, we’re never gonna get out of Iraq.
Nicholas von Hoffman
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No ‘Comments’
How can the MSM maintain they hold themselves to higher standards than the Drudge-driven political blogosphere when they ape its most irresponsible practices?
Eric Alterman
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Warlords of the First Amendment
A right-wing radio host on the vanguard of the English Only movement provides a platform for religious crazies to keep them from ruining the funeral of murdered Amish girls.
Patricia J. Williams
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As Denny Hastert Stumbles Through an Array of Denials That He Knew About Mark Foley’s Behavior and Did Nothing About It
What makes you think he knows anything?
Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
Legal Legacy
Four new books explore the impact of Bush appointees on the newly politicized Supreme Court and the power they wield over our public and private lives.
Herman Schwartz
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My Friend, the Enemy
Sandy Tolan’s The Lemon Tree is a novelistic account of two intertwined lives, one Palestinian and one Jewish, and a house with two histories.
Roane Carey
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Whose Art Is It Anyway?
Two books on art controversies and arts funding in America explore how and when taxpayer money can be used to support public art.
Peter Plagens
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Letters