The Mad-Money Primary Race
John Nichols : If we don't fix the nominating process this year, it will be even worse in 2012.
Fidel Castro on Hugo Chavez, Laila Lalami on Iraqi fiction, Alexander Cockburn on political excitement.
Articles
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The Democratic Foreign Policy Wars
Ari Berman : All the candidates reject Bush's disasters--but that won't be enough for the next administration.
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Castro Helps Chávez Avert a Coup
An excerpt from Fidel Castro: My Life, a spoken autobiography.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Pakistan's Plight
Tariq Ali : A multidimensional charade is taking place in Pakistan, and it is not an edifying sight.
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Toy Story
Daphne Eviatar : An eviscerated Consumer Product Safety Commission means American children still face perils from their toys.
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Noted.
: Guest blogging at The Nation.com, gazing into Kristol's ball, revisiting Hoover's roundup.
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Beyond the Labor Board
Max Fraser : Partisan appointments to Bush's National Labor Relations Board have ensured it's virtually impossible for workers to get a fair shake.
Reviews
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A Human Pledge
Susan Stewart : The most important American love poet in living memory, Robert Creeley celebrated the body and its ambivalent desires with a touch as light as a song.
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Fly Papers
Lorna Scott Fox : An English translation of Lydie Salvayre's The Power of Flies demonstrates how this novelist and practicing psychiatrist has earned more nervous respect than love in France.
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The Dot Matrix
Laila Lalami : In I'jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody, novelist Sinan Antoon explores themes of love, loss, identity and resistance in the face of political oppression.
Columns
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BEAT THE DEVIL
Against Dullness: The Campaigns So Far
Alexander Cockburn : All great seasons in politics begin with excitement. Right now there's none.
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SUBJECT TO DEBATE
Maternity Fashions, Junior Size
Katha Pollitt : Teens getting pregnant: bad. Teens having babies: good. If this makes no sense, wake up and smell the Enfamil: it's 2008!
Web
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Anti-War Lessons From New Hampshire
Tom Hayden : How will Democratic candidates end the war? None of the scenarios offered to New Hampshire voters really addressed the issue.
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Recession--Who Cares?
Barbara Ehrenreich : Politicians and economists find it hard to admit that we have two economies--one for the rich and one for everyone else--and the latter has been in a recession, if not a depression, for a long, long time.
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Howl
Coming to Terms With Huckabee
Nicholas von Hoffman : There's a lot to like about Mike Huckabee. But when you look at his record, there's a lot to worry about.
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TruthDig
Play the Class Card
Robert Scheer : Hillary Clinton may claim that her gender makes her the unmistakeable agent of change--but what's radical about voting for a corporate lawyer?
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A Conversation with Joe Trippi
Ari Melber : John Edwards's political consultant talks about web-driven organizing, why Hillary Clinton may be the next Howard Dean and how bloggers and mainstream media are covering the campaign.
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The Bush Legacy: Journey to the Dark Side
Tom Engelhardt : We have not come to grips with how centrally the Bush Administration has planted torture, abuse, kidnapping, and illegal imprisonment at the heart of governmental practice, the news, and everyday life.
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A Season of 'Change'
Jonathan Schell : Throughout the political sphere--in Democratic and Republican campaigns, in media coverage and pollsters' surveys--the word "change" is bubbling on people's lips. What does it really mean?
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Amid Silence, Terror War Escalates
Tom Hayden : Bush's "war on terror" is escalating without discussion or dissent amid the most open and democratic of American processes--the presidential debates.
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New Hampshire's Nuclear Primary
Harvey Wasserman : Edwards and Kucinich oppose nuclear power plants; Obama and Clinton are very much in favor. Will voters care?
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A New Diplomacy for Pakistan
Christian Parenti : As American policy-makers and pundits seek a Plan B for Pakistan, it's time to recognize the desperate need for a new diplomacy for the Muslim world.
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Benazir's Bequest
Amy Wilentz : In the shock, power grabs and crackdowns that followed Benazir Bhutto's assassination, it's easy to forget that the greatest casualty in Pakistan is the rule of law.
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A Night at the Caucus
Ari Berman : An Iowa native attends his home-town caucus, and discovers deliberative democracy at its freewheeling finest.
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Iowa: Young People Just Made History
The Iowa youth turnout rate has almost tripled since 2000.
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Kenya's Rigged Election
Tavia Nyong'o : A stolen presidential vote--and not tribal conflict--has plunged Kenya into chaos and violence.
Cover by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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