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.
Sherle R. Schwenninger : The US must make full employment and ample demand the guiding principles of its international economic policy.
Elizabeth Holtzman : Senior government officials can be held responsible for the horrors at Abu Ghraib.
Lisa Duggan & Richard Kim : By engaging the marriage debate only in terms of "gay rights," progressives have put themselves in a losing position.
Mike Davis
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America remains unprepared for a possible avian flu
pandemic.
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Activists must push for more debt relief for all
impoverished countries in Africa.
Mark Hertsgaard
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Though the G-8 leaders should subsidize zero-carbon
energy sources, they should resist Bush's advocacy of nuclear energy.
David Sirota : Two states recently restored the estate tax to fund critical middle-class programs.
Ayelish McGarvey : The FDA's refusal to issue a decision on Plan B reflects the influence of the Christian right over Bush Administration policy.
Amitav Ghosh : The abuses at Abu Ghraib were both a continuation and a divergence from historic prison practices.
John Palattella
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Adam Kirsch prefers his own ideas about poetry to actual
poems.
Ross Benjamin
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Novalis's unfinished novel is a kaleidoscope of visions
and allegories of nature.
Stuart Klawans : Reviews of The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Me and You and Everyone We Know and other new films.
Patricia J. Williams
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The Klan was willing to risk that their victims
were innocent; we can't take that risk today with accused terrorists.
Eric Alterman : The media passed along without prejudice Karl Rove's deliberate distortions of Richard Durbin's words.
Our Readers : Articles on the estate tax, college Republicans and patriotism attract comments and questions.
Herman Schwartz : The Supreme Court's medical marijuana decision was a major setback for common sense.
Doug Henwood : China panic can be found at the progressive end of the spectrum.
Robert Scheer : Truth and competence are virtues easily shed by the Bush Administration.
Robert Scheer : The "war on terror" is turning out to be nothing more than a recycled formulation of the dangerously dumb "domino theory."
Max Blumenthal : Inside the CPB's Mann report, one of the strangest government documents ever produced.
Liza Featherstone : Talk about surprising developments, Wal-Mart has done something good.
Maria Margaronis : The attacks seemed designed to maximize fear, not casualties.
Bruce Shapiro : It's not an exaggeration to say that O'Connor's resignation poses a conundrum for Republicans.
William Greider : Senate Democrats are preparing to take a dive on the issue they have righteously hammered for four years--the estate tax.
Cover by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels