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August 27, 2007 Issue
Ari Berman looks at Hillary and labor, Moshik Temkin remembers Sacco and Vanzetti, Daniel Lazare considers prison reform.
Cover art by: Cover design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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Editorial
The victims of the housing market's collapse are crippling an unjust economic system.
Barbara Ehrenreich
If it had followed the rule of law from the outset, the Bush Administration could have brought many terrorists to justice by now.
David Cole
One lucky man!
Robert Grossman
History sheds no new light on their guilt or innocence. But it does make clear that their trial and execution was an unjust and intolerable act of barbarism.
Moshik Temkin
As he shapes the Senate farm bill, Tom Harkin should heed progressives and forge legislation that ends subsidies and gives a fair shake to family farmers.
John Nichols
The Congressional overhaul of federal student aid is a good first step, but true reform of the system will require an effort on the scale of the GI Bill.
Anya Kamenetz
The Minneapolis bridge collapse should prod all presidential candidates, especially Democrats, to come up with real plans to fix our crumbling infrastructure.
The Editors
Column
The parade of political tourists to Iraq in recent weeks suggests that this murderous adventure will continue well into the next presidency.
Robert Scheer
In an effort to bolster the surge and tamp down violence in Iraq, the US military is buying off insurgents. But what happens if they don't stay bought?
Nicholas von Hoffman
What in the world was Clinton thinking when she attacked Obama for pledging not to use nuclear weapons in the hunt for Osama bin Laden?
Robert Scheer
Congress bows to Bush and passes a law that allows blanket data-mining of all phone calls or e-mail by anyone, anywhere.
Patricia J. Williams
Michael Ignatieff apologizes for being wrong on Iraq. If only mainstream media acknowledged all the people who were right.
Katha Pollitt
Are we better off or worse since the Democrats won back Congress?
Alexander Cockburn
Feature
A federal judge in San Francisco has put on hold new Homeland Security regulations designed to crack down on illegal immigrants in the workplace.
David Bacon
A student movement influenced by Hannah Arendt is emerging in Venezuela. What do they think of the Bolivarian Revolution?
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
France's new president has launched an assault on the welfare state.
Jordan Stancil
The cost of deploying a soldier, the number of bullets fired for each insurgent killed, the percentage of Iraqi babies born underweight. A portrait-by-numbers of the Iraq catastrop...
Tom Engelhardt
The institutional neglect that brought Minnesota's Republicans into power has led to tragedy and scandal.
David Rubenstein
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans's ruling class is demolishing public housing to make way for private businesses and expensive condos.
Billy Sothern
What do the Democratic presidential candidates talk about when they talk about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues?
E.J. Graff
Senator Clinton has a pro-worker voting record. So why are unionists skeptical?
Ari Berman
The lovelorn, fragile women the media once revered have given way to skank posses of the skinny, the slutty and the overindulged.
Lakshmi Chaudhry
The NAFTA Superhighway is a total myth. But the private Trans-Texas Corridor is all too real, foretelling a future America in which globalism and crony capitalism eclipse governmen...
Chris Hayes
Books & the Arts
Reviews of The Bourne Ultimatum and The Simpsons Movie.
Stuart Klawans
Two writers explore the perversion of our collective imagination and the ways that science and myth shape our understanding of spirituality.
Thomas Laqueur
A sanction gone awry
was my portion to cultivate
Giveth and taketh away
This is how adaptation occurs
A perpetual recycling
Pam Rehm
How did the American criminal justice system go so wrong?
Daniel Lazare
The lovelorn, fragile women the media once revered have given way to skank posses of the skinny, the slutty and the overindulged.
Lakshmi Chaudhry
History sheds no new light on their guilt or innocence. But it does make clear that their trial and execution was an unjust and intolerable act of barbarism.
Moshik Temkin
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