September 20, 2004
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Feature
When Red Meets Blue
A bipartisan dialogue in this election year? In New York City? During the Republican convention?! We always knew those folks at The New School were a little nutty.
Ari Berman
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Now Hear This!
A once-sleepy population of artists and their fans has emerged as a loud and active proponent of political change.
Hillary Frey
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The Optimism of Uncertainty
The metaphor is deliberate; life is a gamble. Not to play is to foreclose any chance of winning.
Howard Zinn
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The Gates of Hope
This article was adapted from The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen’s Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear (Basic Books, www.theimpossible.org).
Victoria Safford
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Hope for Human Rights
This article was adapted from The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen’s Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear (Basic Books, www.theimpossible.org).
Kenneth Roth
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In Full Bloom
Adapted from Everything We Love Can Be Saved, copyright 1997 by Alice Walker. Used by permission of Random House, Inc.
Alice Walker
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The Sukkah of Shalom
Part of this essay appeared in From the Ashes: A Spiritual Response to the Attack on America, by the editors of Beliefnet (Rodale).
Arthur Waskow
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Hope in a Time of Fear
Even in a seemingly lost cause, one person may unknowingly inspire another.
Paul Rogat Loeb
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The Bush Crusade
Sacred violence, again unleashed in 2001, could prove as destructive as in 1096.
James Carroll
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Editorial
Political Alternatives
OK, I tried to watch the Republican convention on TV–I really did–but the early rounds of the US Open were playing seductively on ESPN.
William Greider
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Will Labor Come Back?
Labor Day has never been a very inspiring holiday, established as it was by late-nineteenth-century union bosses as a homegrown alternative to May Day, which was viewed as having uncomfortably le
Liza Featherstone
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Poverty in the Suburbs
Hidden in a Census Bureau report on poverty released in late August is a factoid with significant political and social consequences. Poverty has moved to the suburbs.
Peter Dreier
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Gay GOPers Crash Party
Being a gay or lesbian Republican isn’t easy. Social conservatives condemn your “homosexual lifestyle,” while your friends (and lovers) on the left see you as part of the antigay problem.
Christopher Lisotta
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Defying Convention
This article draws on reporting by Eyal Press, Esther Kaplan and Katha Pollitt.
Liza Featherstone
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The GOP Hijacks 9/11
More than a thousand days have passed since September 11, 2001, yet the wounds are still raw.
The Editors
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Column
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‘We Lie. We Decide.’
TIM RUSSERT: But, Senator, when you testified before the Senate, you talked about some of the hearings you had observed at the Winter Soldiers meeting, and you said that peop
Eric Alterman
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Economic Bad Boys
When the “scrawny boy from Austria” delivered his peroration against faint-hearted “economic girlie men,” it was an unusually seductive, even witty, appeal to a notion of free enterprise that is
Patricia J. Williams
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A Suggestion as America Begins Preparations for The Next Olympics
We might provoke less violent demonstrations
If we invaded slightly fewer nations.Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
The Burden of Memory
Perhaps you noticed them in the main square of your town this year–or last year, or any year you’ve been alive, in any town where you’ve ever lived: a group of people solemnly assembled, a pries
Meline Toumani
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At the Border
At the border between the past and the future
No sign on a post warns that your passport
Won’t let you return to your native land
As a citizen, just as a touristCarl Dennis
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The Poverty of Theory
Gertrude Himmelfarb is a remarkable woman. Remarkable, first, because in some respects she is a pioneer.
Linda Colley
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Totem and Taboo
It did not take long for a term that not long ago was slanderous to become a cliché.
Ronald Steel
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The Bush Crusade
Sacred violence, again unleashed in 2001, could prove as destructive as in 1096.
James Carroll
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