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December 31, 2007 Issue

John Nichols on God and the GOP, Henry Siegman on Israel and the Palestinians, Tony Eprile on Michael Ondaatje.

Cover art by: Cover by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels

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Editorial

Locked Up in Limbo

In California, sex offenders face the specter of incarceration without end.

Laura Mansnerus

Post-Annapolis Pitfalls

Washington must abandon the fantasy that an Israeli-Palestinian agreement can be reached in the face of deep divisions between Fatah and Hamas, the United States and Israel have f...

Henry Siegman

Rights of Passage

How can momentum be restored to the struggle for human rights? Begin by drawing the world's religions into the conversation.

Eyal Press

Playing the God Card

It's not Romney's Mormon faith that threatens the core values of a secular nation. It's Huckabee's messianic candidacy.

John Nichols

Noted.

The Drum Major Institute talks politics with big-city mayors; what do we say when we talk about torture?

The Editors

Crime and Cover-Up

The CIA tapes' destruction and violation of anti-torture statutes they recorded require a special prosecutor.

The Editors

Subprime Politics

Keep people in their homes and start re-regulating the banking industry to end the conflicts of interest that fueled the debacle.

The Editors

Column

The Mitchell Report Is a Fraud

George Mitchell's long-awaited report on steroids in baseball slanders players, gives owners a pass and never acknowledges its author's conflicts of interest.

Dave Zirin

Ho-Ho-Holiday Donations, 2007 Edition

Multiply your good fortune by giving generously to these progressive organizations and charities.

Katha Pollitt

Congress to CIA Torturers: ‘If Only You’d Told Us’

The agency's secret destruction of tapes is a parable of the futility of oversight.

Alexander Cockburn

I Want a New Drug

Peter Kuper

George Bush, Upon Hearing That the Iranians Abandoned Their Nuclear Weapons Program in 2003

Calvin Trillin

Letters

BELIEVE WHAT YOU WANT BUT BUTTON UP

Hadensville, Va.

Our Readers and Brian Morton

Feature

A Hoax Exposed at Princeton

When a strait-laced Princeton student claimed he was attacked by liberal thugs, the conservative establishment rallied around him--until it turned out to be a lie.

Max Blumenthal

USDA Bets the Farm on Animal ID Program

A plan to implant farm animals with electronic tracking tags gives corporate agriculture a monopoly on the future of food, and it has sparked political backlash in rural America.

William Pentland and David E. Gumpert

Farmworkers and Students Take On Burger King

The fast-food giant's insistence on paying poverty wages to tomato pickers could backfire, as student activists' campaign for fair food cuts into their business.

Michael Gould-Wartofsky

Al Jazeera Goes Mainstream

The Arabic and English satellite broadcasts are giving voice to Arabs who challenge their governments, and ours.

Ned Lamont

Permalancers, Unite!

Freelancers staged a walkout at Viacom this week, instigating one of the most unlikely and successful labor campaigns in recent memory.

Anya Kamenetz

Waiting for Godot in a Wasteland

The most devastated neighborhood in America makes an ideal backdrop for a morally ambiguous play about abandonment.

Billy Sothern

GWOT: Thailand

Fear of terrorism has enabled Thailand's military dictatorship.

Noy Thrupkaew

GWOT: Pakistan

As the Taliban gains strength, a nascent democracy in Pakistan withers.

Shahan Mufti

GWOT: The Philippines

Since 9/11 the Philippines have seen an explosion of political killings.

Luis H. Francia

GWOT: El Salvador

A new anti-terrorism law gives El Salvador carte blanche to stifle dissent.

Wes Enzinna

GWOT: Egypt

America's "war on terror" has strengthened Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's stranglehold on civil liberties.

Negar Azimi

Forum: What GWOT Has Wrought

George W. Bush's "global war against terror" unleashed a wave of repression felt around the globe. Reports from Egypt, El Salvador, the Philippines, Thailand and Pakistan.

The Editors