The Establishment Rethinks Globalization
William Greider : An unlikely dissident has proposed a new way to understand, and reform, the world economy.
Ari Berman describes efforts to reform campaign finance, Lawrence Goodwyn predicts a shift in national politics, and Mark M. Anderson reviews Measuring the World.
Articles
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The Coming Party Realignment
Lawrence Goodwyn : Public anxiety over the economy could lead to a permanent restructuring of America's political parties.
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Sun-rise in New York
Scott Sherman : How the pugnacious, money-losing New York Sun has won friends and influenced conservatives.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Pelosi and Diplomacy
: By refusing to negotiate at home and abroad, Bush has become isolated and dangerous.
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Making Elections Fair
Ari Berman : The modern campaign finance system is broken. Congress should pass laws that will fix it.
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The French Connection
Jordan Stancil : A new Reaganomics is taking hold in Europe, with grave implications for progressive politics everywhere.
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Testing Time for Nigeria
John Ghazvinian : The upcoming elections in Nigeria could signal an important turning point in Africa's troubled road to democracy.
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Hiss In History
Victor Navasky : Although many historians have condemned Alger Hiss as a Soviet spy, the facts of his story remain obscure.
Reviews
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Inevitable Revolutions
Gyan Prakash : In William Dalrymple's The Last Mughal, the 1857 Uprising against British rule in India is recast as a cross-border friendship gone sour.
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Mission Impossible
Maya Jasanoff : Three Empires on the Nile, a lively retelling of Britain's colonial exploits in Africa, conjures up images of wild-eyed Arabs waging jihad in the desert.
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Humboldt's Gift
Mark M. Anderson : The comic novel Measuring the World re-imagines the lives of two of the nineteenth century's greatest scientists.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
On John McCain's Much-Ridiculed Attempt to Use His Shorja Market Visit as Proof That Baghdad Is Being Pacified
Calvin Trillin : McCain bought himself trouble in his visit to Baghdad.
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BEAT THE DEVIL
The Ho Industry
Alexander Cockburn : In the larger context, the flap over Don Imus's racial slur is only one tiny square in our dirty national quilt.
Web
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Silencing New Voices
Eyal Press : What happens when a student magazine committed to fostering dialogue opens its pages to critical views on Israel?
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Story Lines at Virginia Tech
Bruce Shapiro : The desire to impose a narrative on chaotic events leaves the meaning of the Virginia Tech shootings up for grabs.
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Curbing Abortion Rights
Karen Houppert : Newcomer Supreme Court Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito showed their true stripes by supporting a landmark late-term abortion ban.
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Should I Pay and Should I Go?
British students struggle with rising tuitions.
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Campus Informer
Ice-pick-wielding parents, dirty elections, and more news from schools around the world.
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Publish or Parent?
Challenges for women in the sciences.
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Teenage Birth Rate Drops to a 65-Year Low
What's working--less sex or better contraception? WireTap looks at what's behind the sharp decline.
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TruthDig
Heck of a Job, Wolfie
Robert Scheer : Wolfowitz is in trouble. The World Bank leader got his girlfriend a pay raise, lied about it and alienated his staff. But don't worry--Bush still thinks he's doing a bang-up job.
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Let It Be Some Other 'Asian'
Andrew Lam : When the shooter at Virginia Tech was identified to be Korean American, other minorities heaved a sigh of relief. But should they?
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Israel's Strategic Threat
Neve Gordon : Azmi Bishara, a member of the Knesset, has been charged with treason for speaking out against injustices committed by Israel.
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Tangled in Table Talk
Eric Kenning : Candidates are eager to "keep all options on the table," but where's the table?
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When Even a Sponge Feels the Squeeze
Annabelle Gurwitch : Working people have more in common with a sponge who lives in a pineapple under the sea than the picture painted of job growth by the Bush Administration.
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US Silence Muzzles Vietnam's Dissidents
Andrew Lam : Vietnam is experiencing its worst crackdown on human rights in decades, and US policy bears part of the blame.
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Howl
Exploiting Imus
Nicholas von Hoffman : The media's superficial coverage of Don Imus avoids important questions about free speech and race.
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Moral Compass
Hiss in History
Victor Navasky : Although many historians have condemned Alger Hiss as a Soviet spy, the facts of his story remain obscure.
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