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October 3, 2005 Issue

Curtis Wilkie explores how New Orleans got where it was and what it needs to get where it’s going. Roberto Lovato exposes the strategi…

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Editorial

Fear Itself

Some people are scaring themselves about the wrong things in ways that are doing terrorists' work for them. Here's one physician's prescription for bringing irrational fears under ...

Dr. Marc Siegel

Prelude to an Exit Strategy

As a handful of maverick lawmakers hold unofficial hearings on an Iraq exit strategy, how long will it take Democrats and Republicans on the Hill to recognize the growing distaste ...

Ari Berman

NYU’s Poison Ivy Itch

When one of New York's biggest and most liberal institutions gets into the business of union-busting, it's hardly an internal matter.

Andrew Ross

Bread, Roses and the Flood

The only bright spot in this man-made disaster has been the wave of public outrage at the Administration's failure to provide aid to the most vulnerable.

Eric Foner

Class-ifying the Hurricane

What happened in New Orleans is an extreme and criminally tragic consequence of the belief that cutting public spending makes for a better society.

Adolph Reed Jr.

A ‘New’ New Deal

The reconstruction of New Orleans could set the stage for a comprehensive legislative initiative akin to the New Deal.

William Greider

Our Two Gulf Crises

Our strategy ought not to be to fight every prospective terrorist to the death in Iraq, but to deny them the cause that has swollen their ranks--our continuing presence there.

The Editors

Column

Bush Finally Sees Poor People

It takes a hurricane to raise awareness that the numbers of poor people are growing on George Bush's watch. Will that be enough for the President to begin to level the playing fiel...

Robert Scheer

Intelligible Design

Intellectually, scientifically, even artistically, fundamentalism is a road to nowhere, because it insists on fidelity to revealed truths that are not true.

Katha Pollitt

Levee Town

There are decades of memos from engineers and contractors setting forth budgets to build up the Gulf Coast's levees, but Bush wouldn't let them be.

Alexander Cockburn

Further Words From George W. Bush After He Said to FEMA Chief Michael Brown, ‘Brownie, You’re Doing a Heckuva Job.’

Calvin Trillin

Letters

Sex and the Single Reporter

New York City

Our Readers and Debbie Nathan

Feature

Visionaries Wanted

New homes for those displaced by Hurricane Katrina need not be the penitentiary-style public housing we've come to dread. Bring in architects who know how to create human-scale dwe...

Nicholas von Hoffman

Left Behind: Bush’s Holy War on Nature

Americans care about the environment, but the Bush Administration clearly doesn't. Blame it on Republican ideology and the apocalyptic religious sensibilities of his political base...

Chip Ward

Bohemia’s Last Frontier

New Orleans, a city full of idiosyncrasies, must be restored for the benefit of the nation as a whole.

Curtis Wilkie

Iraqis Demand a US Withdrawal

Sources on the ground in Iraq say that serious moves toward a pullout will dry up recruitment efforts for jihadi groups.

David Enders

The War for Latinos

In the face of unprecedented manpower problems, the Pentagon is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to target young Latinos for military recruitment.

Roberto Lovato

Winning the Peace

Antiwar Democrats in Washington are facing a moment of truth: Now is the time to raise the volume on the previously taboo discussion of a real exit strategy from Iraq.

John Nichols