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Hip-Hop Doesn’t Live Here Anymore

Though promoted as an antiracist event, the rally lamented the state of the corporate music industry generally.

Mark Hatch-Miller

GIs Against Torture

Low-ranking soldiers are taking the blame in the torture scandal while higher-ups get a pass.

John Sifton

Letter From Spain

The barricades went up in Salamanca on December 30.

Geoff Pingree and Lisa Abend

Race to the Bottom

Wal-Mart hopes to defeat its opponents by exploiting their racial divisions.

Liza Featherstone

The New Face of Protest?

Antiwar activists cultivate military allies.

Karen Houppert

In Fact…

DEATH AT THE CHECKPOINT

The Editors

Comix Nation

Robert Grossman

From the Publisher

Masthead watchers will note that with this issue I have dropped the editorial director half of my title. This change is recognition of a happy reality.

The Nation

In the Park With Christo

From everywhere people flocked to New York City to experience the extraordinary installation in Central Park by the environmental artists Christo and his wife, Jeanne-Claude.

Roberta Brandes Gratz and Stephen A. Goldsmith

Darfur and Development

The recent United Nations Commission of Inquiry’s report on Darfur may be right or wrong in claiming that the atrocities committed in the region do not amount to genocide.

Fatin Abbas

Cedar or Sapling?

Ever since a massive bomb killed former prime minister Rafik Hariri on February 14, downtown Beirut has evolved into a solemn carnival, halfway between a wake and a rave.

Annia Ciezadlo

Democracy’s Dilemmas

In what is being called the “cedar revolution,” demonstrators in Beirut brought down the pro-Syrian government at the end of February and forced Damascus to announce the withdrawal of its 14,00

The Editors

The Bankruptcy Bill: A Tutorial in Greed

Lesson No. 1: Campaign cash is worth more than family values.

Robert Scheer

On the Secret ‘Rendition’ of Terror Suspects to Countries Known to Use Torture

As Jesus said to render unto Caesar
A portion of thy grain or of thy stock,
Our policy’s to render unto Caesar
In hopes that he’ll apply electric shock.

Calvin Trillin

Can Democracy Survive Bush’s Embrace?

It started off as a joke and has now become vaguely serious: the idea that Bono might be named president of the World Bank.

Naomi Klein

Anti-Semite? Self-Hating Jew? Moi?

That the Boston Globe is a great newspaper can be in no doubt, as its brave (though flawed) reporting on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church has recently demonstrated.

Eric Alterman

Grim Fairy Tales

It seemed too bizarre to be anything but apocryphal, but, hey, I heard it on NPR: William Poole, a high school junior from Kentucky, was taken into custody and charged with threatening to commit

Patricia J. Williams

In the Park With Christo

From everywhere people flocked to New York City to experience the extraordinary installation in Central Park by the environmental artists Christo and his wife, Jeanne-Claude.

Roberta Brandes Gratz and Stephen A. Goldsmith

Fear and Loathing in Italy

Nineteen sixty-eight came early to Italy–it began with student protests at the University of Trento in 1967–and lasted longer, arguably, than anywhere else.

Frederika Randall

Jews Without Borders

Although revered in certain circles as something close to holy writ, Edward W.

Daniel Lazare

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