Reconnecting to the World
Sherle R. Schwenninger : The US must make full employment and ample demand the guiding principles of its international economic policy.
Sherle Schwenninger proposes a foreign policy for Democrats, Mike Davis says that the US is woefully unprepared for an avian flu pandemic and Stuart Klawans reviews The Beat That My Heart Skipped.
Articles
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Torture and Accountability
Elizabeth Holtzman : Senior government officials can be held responsible for the horrors at Abu Ghraib.
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Beyond Gay Marriage
Lisa Duggan & Richard Kim : By engaging the marriage debate only in terms of "gay rights," progressives have put themselves in a losing position.
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Avian Flu: A State of Unreadiness
Mike Davis : America remains unprepared for a possible avian flu pandemic.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Giving Africa a Hand
: Activists must push for more debt relief for all impoverished countries in Africa.
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Climate and the G-8
Mark Hertsgaard : Though the G-8 leaders should subsidize zero-carbon energy sources, they should resist Bush's advocacy of nuclear energy.
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Minority/Majority
Reviewing the Estate Tax
David Sirota : Two states recently restored the estate tax to fund critical middle-class programs.
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Plan B for Plan B
Ayelish McGarvey : The FDA's refusal to issue a decision on Plan B reflects the influence of the Christian right over Bush Administration policy.
Reviews
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The Theater of Cruelty
Amitav Ghosh : The abuses at Abu Ghraib were both a continuation and a divergence from historic prison practices.
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book
Prosaic Judgments
John Palattella : Adam Kirsch prefers his own ideas about poetry to actual poems.
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Mother Nature's Son
Ross Benjamin : Novalis's unfinished novel is a kaleidoscope of visions and allegories of nature.
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film
Shoot the Piano Player
Stuart Klawans : Reviews of The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Me and You and Everyone We Know and other new films.
Columns
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DIARY OF A MAD LAW PROFESSOR
Extrajudicial Activism
Patricia J. Williams : The Klan was willing to risk that their victims were innocent; we can't take that risk today with accused terrorists.
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THE LIBERAL MEDIA
Lying Liars & the Presidents Who Employ Them
Eric Alterman : The media passed along without prejudice Karl Rove's deliberate distortions of Richard Durbin's words.
Web
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Web Letters
Nation Readers Speak
Our Readers : Articles on the estate tax, college Republicans and patriotism attract comments and questions.
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Cannabis Interrupted
Herman Schwartz : The Supreme Court's medical marijuana decision was a major setback for common sense.
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Chinese Shark Attack!
Doug Henwood : China panic can be found at the progressive end of the spectrum.
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Column Left
The Real Rove Scandal
Robert Scheer : Truth and competence are virtues easily shed by the Bush Administration.
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Column Left
Bush Is Serving Up the Cold War Warmed Over
Robert Scheer : The "war on terror" is turning out to be nothing more than a recycled formulation of the dangerously dumb "domino theory."
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M is for Moronic
Max Blumenthal : Inside the CPB's Mann report, one of the strangest government documents ever produced.
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Wal-Mart Nation
Lee Scott, Civil Rights Activist (Really!)
Liza Featherstone : Talk about surprising developments, Wal-Mart has done something good.
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London After the Bombing
Maria Margaronis : The attacks seemed designed to maximize fear, not casualties.
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O'Connor and the Parameters of Possibility
Bruce Shapiro : It's not an exaggeration to say that O'Connor's resignation poses a conundrum for Republicans.
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Profiles in Cowardice
William Greider : Senate Democrats are preparing to take a dive on the issue they have righteously hammered for four years--the estate tax.
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