The New Atheists
Ronald Aronson : An increasingly outspoken community of atheists and agnostics is getting fed up with being marginalized, ignored and insulted.
Gara LaMarche on criminal justice reform, Patricia Williams on juries and the death penalty, and a Susan Stewart poem.
Articles
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Coming to America
Felicia Mello : The US guest-worker program has locked thousands in a modern-day form of indentured servitude.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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The Great Pretender
: The President's phony internationalism falls flat at the G-8 summit, more proof he has eroded US global leadership and cooperation.
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Jackal Time
Robert L. Borosage : Will the Supreme Court declare banks immune from liability for their role in the Enron debacle?
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Neoconned Again
John Nichols : Expect no changes as Bush Administration hit man Robert Zoellick takes the helm of the World Bank.
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Summer Lunch Crunch
Herman Schwartz : It's going to be a hungry summer for low-income kids on vacation from school lunch programs.
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After Willie Horton
Gara LaMarche : Criminal justice reform, absent from the progressive agenda, must be a priority for Democratic candidates.
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Farewell, Tony and Carm
Max Fraser : As we begin our final hour with Tony Soprano and his two families, it's hard not to feel a familiar sense of loss.
Reviews
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book
Chinese Mirrors
Rick Perlstein : China has become like Israel: No matter the party, no matter the leader, the US government will defend its actions.
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film
Good News From Romania?
Stuart Klawans : 12:08 East of Bucharest is a hilariously bleak film set on the sixteenth anniversary of Romania's revolution.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
Alberto Gonzales Is Still at His Post
Calvin Trillin : Don't worry, he's got it all under control.
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BEAT THE DEVIL
Dissidents Against Dogma
Alexander Cockburn : Even more contrarian thinking about global warming.
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SUBJECT TO DEBATE
Tough Luck, Ladies
Katha Pollitt : The Roberts Court rules that six months into being screwed by your boss, pay discrimination is your own damn fault.
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DIARY OF A MAD LAW PROFESSOR
Divining Demeanor
Patricia J. Williams : The latest Supreme Court ruling on the death penalty will give prosecutors huge latitude to pick jurors who enthusiastically embrace capital punishment.
Web
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Sick Children, Working Moms
Ellen Bravo : Guilt-ridden mothers send ailing kids to school or daycare for fear of losing their jobs. Isn't it time for paid family leave?
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TruthDig
President Lieberman: A Cautionary Tale
Robert Scheer : What would have happened if, by some twist of fate, Sen. Joe Lieberman had ended up in the White House instead of George W. Bush?
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Russian Protests: The Big Guessing Game
Mark Ames : After a surprisingly peaceful weekend of rallies, the first signs of dialogue between the Other Russia movement and the Kremlin are emerging. Will it last?
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The Trouble With the Super-Rich
Barbara Ehrenreich : A bloated overclass can drag down a society as surely as a swelling underclass.
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What America Owes its 'Illegals'
Barbara Ehrenreich : The punitive rage directed at illegal immigrants grows out of a larger blindness to the manual labor that makes our lives possible.
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Wall Street, Iraq and the Declining Dollar
Ken Miller : The Iraq War, the declining supply of oil and a flood of US currency are setting the stage for economic disaster.
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Politics Watchdog Follows the Money Online
Joan Hamilton : MAPlight.org, a Berkeley-based online watchdog, is breaking ground by using technology to track how political contributions shape legislation.
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In Praise of Immigrant Students
Ellen Chesler : The educational odysseys of Hunter College's foreign-born graduates disprove the lies spread by anti-immigrant politicians.
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A White House Plan to Erode Our Liberties
Aziz Huq : Beyond its power to jail terror detainees, the Military Commissions Act is the spearhead of a more sustained and long-term incursion on all our civil liberties. It must be rolled back.
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Are We Disturbing?
Robert S. Eshelman : As leaders of the G-8 Summit played power politics at an opulent resort, protesters displayed a people's power, in demonstrations and at an alternative summit.
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A Permanent Military Empire
Tom Engelhardt : To mainstream media, the Bush Administration's full-scale garrisoning of Planet Earth is simply not a news story. But in Iraq beyond, America's empire of permanent bases grows at an alarming pace.
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television
The Sopranos' Last Song
Max Fraser : With an ominous sense of foreboding, Tony Soprano takes his last drive down the Jersey Turnpike, after seven seasons and 86 bloody, sexy, curse-ridden episodes.
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