The Mourning After
Sarah Blustain : The antiabortion movement has found a new face to exploit for political gain. And it's male.
Eric Foner on race and gender, Alexander Cockburn on economic terrorism, Nona Willis Aronowitz on Bella Abzug.
Articles
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Experts in Terror
Petra Bartosiewicz : The US government relies heavily on the testimony of self-styled terrorism experts in prosecuting the "war on terror." But how credible are they?
Letters
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Letters
Our Readers & Henry Siegman : Readers respond to Gary Younge on The Obama Effect, exchange views with Henry Siegman on Israel and comment about the subprime mortgage meltdown.
Editorials & Comment
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Twin Disasters
: When will the candidates cease their petty sniping and address the real issues: the Iraq War and the faltering economy?
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Reconstruction Lessons
Eric Foner : Advocates of African-Americans and women achieve more by working together than by fighting.
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Noted.
: Victor Navasky on failed punditry, Frida Berrigan on Bush's Israeli pilgrimage, Esther Kaplan on activist nurses.
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Long Roe to Hoe
Frances Kissling & Kate Michelman : Improving the sorry state of US reproductive health policy requires serious shifts within the women's movement and the abortion rights movement.
Reviews
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book
Little Ships of Horror
Christopher Leslie Brown : Marcus Rediker's breathtaking "human history" of the slave ship reveals how the transatlantic slave trade demeaned everyone it touched.
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On the Books
Ted Conover : A "rogue sociologist" gains unprecedented insight on the day-to-day workings of a Chicago gang.
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Bella's Way
Nona Willis Aronowitz : They just don't make women politicians like Bella Abzug anymore.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
Two Primary-Season Versions of 'Hickory Dickory Dock'
Calvin Trillin : It ain't no nursery rhyme.
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BEAT THE DEVIL
Moody's: The Terrorist at Ground Zero
Alexander Cockburn : Lusting after pools of Social Security and Medicare money, the Wall Street giant aims to dictate national policy through the barrel of a financial gun.
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SUBJECT TO DEBATE
The Weepy Witch & the Secret Muslim
Katha Pollitt : If the campaign becomes a competition between race and gender, the winner will be whichever white man the GOP nominates.
Web
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Is Bill Out of Control?
VideoNation : Katrina vanden Heuvel debates the role of former President Clinton and the primary results from Nevada on Sunday's This Week with George Stephanopoulos roundtable.
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Howl
Bill and Hill's Dangerous Game
Nicholas von Hoffman : The Clintons cannot compete with the enthusiasm Obama sets off so they are trying to destroy it. They just may succeed--but at an awful price.
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TruthDig
Playing Politics with Bankers
Robert Scheer : Now that Dennis Kucinich is out of the presidential debates, don't expect Clinton or Obama to hold unregulated bankers accountable for the global economic meltdown.
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Chalmers Johnson: America's Going Bankrupt
Chalmers Johnson : From Tom Dispatch: The current economic crisis is caused by policies that tax the richest Americans at strikingly low levels and spend huge sums on defense projects that have no bearing on national security.
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Desperately Seeking Stimulus
Barbara Ehrenreich : An economy addicted to growth, bubbles, downsizing and lending sprees--has become disconnected from the real economy of ordinary human needs.
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The CIA's Jose: Case Study in Cynicism
Ted Gup : Long before a top bureaucrat was exposed for destroying secret interrogation tapes, the CIA shrouded his identity, making the press corps complicit in practices that would offend the nation's conscience.
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Bush's Iran/Argentina Terror Frame-Up
Gareth Porter : The Bush Administration cites a 1994 bombing in Argentina to tar Iran as a sponsor of global terror. But a fresh probe finds no evidence of an Iran connection.
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A Conversation with Taylor Branch
Bruce Wallace : MLK's biographer on presidents, politics, racial injustice, poverty and war.
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CSI: Iraq
Tom Engelhardt : Despite the cosmetic acts of President Bush, his undertakers and enablers, America's Iraq is still a corpse.
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Howl
Our Eroding Dollar
Nicholas von Hoffman : No matter how much it adds to inflation, the Fed, prodded by Wall Street, is poised to again lower interest rates--punching an even bigger hole in our purchasing power.
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NIMBY Comes to China
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom : In Shanghai, angry, middle-class protesters say a high-speed train will wreck their quality of life. This new form of dissent could be one of the biggest challenges China will face.
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Racial Politics, Clinton Style
Ari Berman : No matter who injected the issue of race and gender into the Democratic presidential campaign, it's not going away.
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Fiction
Suicide Is Painless
Gary Phillips : Episode 2: Kang's political mentor--and reputed former lover--is found with a bullet in his brain. As the media is poised to pounce, she readies her talking points with a growing sense of dread.
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Correction and Clarification: Download a Song--Lose Your Loan?
What we are dealing with here are the typical grey areas in legislative language.
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No Breathing Room: The Asthma Epidemic
Another cost of global climate change and air pollution: an asthma epidemic. Low-income youth are particularly vulnerable, hindering their educational and economic prospects. Now that the data is in, what's being done?
Cover photograph: Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend (1945, MGM); cover design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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