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Feature
The Arab Awakening
Throughout the Arab world, we are witnessing nothing less than the awakening of several phenomena that are critical for stable statehood.
Rami G. Khouri
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Syria’s Assad on the Ropes?
If the Syrian dictator falls, there could be a bloody sectarian settling of accounts.
Patrick Seale
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Fault Lines in Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood
Seemingly within reach of unprecedented power in a post-Mubarak Egypt, the group faces the prospect of implosion.
Stephen Glain
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Democracy 101 for Egypt
Can Egyptians turn the fervor of Tahrir into lasting political engagement?
Alia Malek
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The Middle East’s Working-Class Revolutions?
The success of the insurgent movements throughout the region correlates well with the strength of organized labor.
Joel Beinin
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The Moroccan ‘Exception’
The king says his realm is a beacon of liberalism, but the people demand bread, and roses too.
Laila Lalami
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That Other Tunisia
Without social justice for unemployed youth, revolutionary hopes may descend into class war.
Graham Usher
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The Rise of the Intifada Generation
The Palestinian liberation struggle was “the rock that was thrown in the still water.”
Nadia Hijab
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Can Tahrir Square Come to Tel Aviv?
Israel must forge a new Palestinian and regional strategy in response to the Arab Awakening.
Daniel Levy
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Saudi Arabia’s Regional Reaction
The royals have spared no expense in crushing or minimizing the impact of the revolutions.
Toby C. Jones
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Clampdown in Bahrain
When protesters called for a republic, the US position changed, allowing a Saudi invasion.
Scheherezade Faramarzi
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Washington’s Weak Response to the Arab Awakening
The United States has alienated both allied regimes and their opposition movements.
Bob Dreyfuss
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Editorial
A New Middle East
The protesters who have filled the streets of Arab cities for months now are demanding democracy and open government, and an end to the corruption and brutal humiliations of autocracy.
The Editors
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The Democrats’ Rural Rebellions
The Republicans’ dramatic overreach in states from Wisconsin to Maine has created openings for substantial Democratic victories in unexpected territory.
John Nichols
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Noted.
Sarah Jaffe on the Verizon strike, Tom Hayden on AFL-CIO’s condemnation of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Britney Wilson on a welcome change in the prisons
Various Contributors
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The Party of Bachmann?
Antigovernment zealots and biblical literalists are driving the race for 2012’s Republican presidential nomination.
Sarah Posner
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Keystone Cops
The largest act of civil disobedience by environmentalists in decades began outside the White House on August 20, as more than seventy people were arrested during a protest against the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
George Zornick
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Column
Michele Bachmann, Wife in Chief?
Is a vote for Bachmann actually a vote for her husband?
Katha Pollitt
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Daylight Robbery, Meet Nighttime Robbery
The UK rioters know full well that their elites are looters too.
Naomi Klein
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Books & the Arts
The Perpetual Guest: On Warren Niesluchowski
A visit from Warren is a test of hospitality: you don’t take him in, you take him on.
Barry Schwabsky
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Discandied: On Women and Elegy
Learning to mourn with Susan Howe, Gertrude Schnackenberg, Anne Carson and C.D. Wright.
Susan Stewart
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This Is a Recording: On Alan Lomax
How Alan Lomax became the most significant Baedeker of America’s folkways.
David Yaffe
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