April 12, 2004
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Feature
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Everybody’s Talking About the Weather
The last few years have seen renewed interest in the Weathermen.
Jeremy Varon
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The 9/11 Bog
The September 11 commission has become mired in partisan bickering, as questions go unasked and new revelations are overwhelmed by the noise.
David Corn
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A Deserter Speaks
It is unlikely that Mejia’s allegations about the conduct of his superiors will be investigated.
Christian Parenti
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Women and Prison
Thirteen-year-old Idalmin Santana has a ready smile and long braids. She lives with a foster family in Jamaica, Queens, because her parents are in prison.
Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
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Still Dreaming of Tehran
The neocons haven’t given up on “regime change” in Iran. Don’t count them out.
Bob Dreyfuss and Laura Rozen
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Africa’s Oil Tycoons
Western firms and government leaders, not the people, benefit from Angola’s wealth.
Daphne Eviatar
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Editorial
Taking Liberties
To all the arguments lodged against gay marriage, add this one–it’s a matter of national security.
David Cole
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The Deaning of America
Does Dean for America have a second act? That’s the question a lot of people have been asking after the collapse of Howard Dean’s presidential campaign.
Micah L. Sifry
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Israel Plays With Fire
At 5:20 on the morning of March 22, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of Palestinian Hamas, was leaving a mosque in the Gaza Strip when he was killed in an Israeli helicopter gunship attac
Adam Shatz and Roane Carey
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Time for Truth
The two brothers who scaled the face of Big Ben in London with a banner reading Time for Truth sent the right message on the anniversary of the beginning of the US-led war on Iraq and just days b
The Editors
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Column
Bush Puts ‘a Cancer on the Presidency’
Watergate insider calls this White House “scary.”
Robert Scheer
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Pull Over, NASCAR Dads
Single women under 65–those separated, widowed, divorced or never married–represent at least 24 percent of the voting-age population and a whopping 46 percent of voting-age women.
Katha Pollitt
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Antonin Scalia Explains
WHY DUCK-HUNTING WITH DICK CHENEY AS CHENEY’S CASE COMES BEFORE THE COURT IS PERFECTLY OK
This criticism Nino calls absurd.
It’s true that Quackscam is an ugly word.Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
Everybody’s Talking About the Weather
The last few years have seen renewed interest in the Weathermen.
Jeremy Varon
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Speak, Memory
Not wanting to curse Charlie Kaufman with too much praise, I’m tempted to say that his nonexistent twin Donald is the best American screenwriter since Preston Sturges.
Stuart Klawans
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Heart of Gold
Courtney Love’s new record is called America’s Sweetheart. Take that. It’s a name that has been used facetiously by the press to describe her.
Priscilla Becker
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In America
If the words “first novel” and “arrival of a major American talent” appear on the front flap of a dust jacket, you can almost be sure that the picture on the back flap will depict some impossibly
Philip Connors
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Water’s Edge
Manhattan is a tight little island. Around thirteen miles long, it has a width that varies from two miles to a few hundred feet.
John Palattella
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