The Wages of Peace
Robert Pollin & Heidi Garrett-Peltier : Spending on the war in Iraq is a job killer. Ending the war would be the real stimulus package.
Calvin Trillin on Mike Huckabee, Alexander Cockburn on Eliot Spitzer, Debbie Nathan on the brutal death of Javier Domínguez.
Articles
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The War and the Working Class
Michael Zweig : Young people drawn into combat by the "economic draft" are being treated just as poorly as all the other workers in this neoliberal economy.
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Class War (chart)
Who's losing and who's winning at home from the US occupation of Iraq?
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Who Said the War Would Pay for Itself? They Did!
Victor Navasky & Christopher Cerf : Unwise words from the "experts" who promised a cost-free war.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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It's the War Economy, Stupid!
: Among the major causes of the current economic crisis is the staggering cost of the war in Iraq.
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The Torture Veto
David Cole : Bush has made history by being the first American President to use his veto power to preserve torture.
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Time for a Revote
John Nichols : Holding Democratic primaries in Florida and Michigan a second time would send the message that Americans do not need to accept illegitimate elections.
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A Sea-Change Election?
Robert L. Borosage : The 2008 presidential election could signal the most dramatic political shift since Reagan.
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Border Death Backstory
Debbie Nathan : The trial for the murder of undocumented immigrant Francisco Javier Domínguez stripped him of his humanity. The retrial must not make the same mistake.
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Smearing Obama
Ari Berman : False claims about Obama intended to stoke racial and religious fear are trickling from the far right to the mainstream media.
Reviews
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A Garden of Monsters
Carmen Boullosa : The imaginary fascists in Roberto Bolaño's ironic encyclopedia Nazi Literature in the Americas bear a complex relationship to reality.
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Windows Into the Night
Marcela Valdes : The collected nonfiction of Roberto Bolaño is a treasure trove filled with straw and dust, jewels and gold.
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Un Lio Bestial
Forrest Gander : In his poetry Roberto Bolaño gave himself over to the subversive, to antiheroes, ballad and saga.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
Democrats Bid a Fond Farewell to Mike Huckabee
Calvin Trillin : Saying goodbye to the Republicans' funniest candidate.
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BEAT THE DEVIL
The Spitzer Sting
Alexander Cockburn : Was there a medium-sized right-wing conspiracy to nail Eliot Spitzer?
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SUBJECT TO DEBATE
John Q. Public
Katha Pollitt : Just once it would be nice to see a male politician caught in a sex scandal stand up there at a press conference all by himself.
Web
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Southpaw
Carrying a Torch for Tibet
Dave Zirin : Protest is as much a part of the Olympic tradition as lighting the torch.
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Iraq: The View from Year Six
Tom Engelhardt : In March 2009, no matter who is president, Iraq will still be hell on Earth.
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Hillary's Nasty Pastorate
Barbara Ehrenreich : When it comes to unsavory religious affiliations, Hillary Clinton is a lot more vulnerable than Obama.
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China's Olympic Delusion
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom : Cracking down once again in Tibet, China seeks to control the script on its flawed human rights record, yet still be regarded as a suitable host for the Olympics. Dream on.
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TruthDig
The Idiot's Grin
Robert Scheer : Presiding over a disastrous war and an unconscionable taxpayer bailout of Wall Street, why is George W. Bush still smiling?
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Blackwater Seeps Into the Campaign
Jeremy Scahill : Clinton and Obama each have nuanced plans to ban private security firms from Iraq. The difference is how they're spinning them.
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Blackwater, the Campaign Issue
Jeremy Scahill & VideoNation : In this interview with RealNews, Nation Correspondent Jeremy Scahill explains how Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama differ on the use of private security contractors in Iraq.
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Notes on a Scandal
JoAnn Wypijewski : The Spitzer affair's obvious rationality continues to elude the therapists, sexperts and pundits for whom shame is the game.
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Obama, Politics and the Pulpit
Christopher Hayes : The uproar over intemperate remarks by Obama's former pastor reveals all that's repellant in our national discourse over race, religion and politics.
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The Experts Speak on Iraq
Victor Navasky & Christopher Cerf : To mark the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War, some daily inspiration from the experts who led us there.
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The Short of It
Final Fantasy
David Waldstreicher : Susan Faludi's Terror Dream made a provocative splash, but therapy is no substitute for understanding reality.
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Howl
Economic Chaos, Political Consequences
Nicholas von Hoffman : As the federal bailout of the banking industry continues, is it too much to ask that McCain, Clinton and Obama abandon their blue-sky promises and address reality?
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Tracing Slavery's Past
Te-Ping Chen : On the bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade, a documentarian tries to come to grips with her family's history in the trade.
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Who's Illegal? How Immigration Defines the '08 Election
Conservative efforts to demonize undocumented immigrants have only energized a new generation of immigrant rights leaders.
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Moving Pictures: Book Reveals Incarcerated Youth Art
A generation of incarcerated Bay Area youth seizes the pen.
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Fiction
Daydreaming and I'm Thinking of You
Gary Phillips : This week's episode of Citizen Kang: The Congresswoman's chief of staff gets shot at and Kang lets her mind wander into dangerous territory.
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Reviving Vietnam War Tactics
Tom Hayden : One of Gen. Petraeus's top advisors advocates a return to the global Phoenix program used during the Vietnam War.
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Nation Editor Comments on Spitzer Scandal
Katrina vanden Heuvel & VideoNation : On MSNBC's Morning Joe, Nation editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel talks about the Spitzer scandal and what it means for New York.
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