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September 22, 2008 Issue

Gary Younge on Bristol Palin, Sarah Goodman on prisons, Michael Tisserand on New Orleans…

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Editorial

The Truth Can Move Us Forward

We suffer not only from the loss of innocent life on 9/11, but because the attacks became the rationale for an unjust war. It's time to face the truth.

Dennis Kucinich

A Conservative Confidence Game

The Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac crisis strips the clothes off the Emperor of Markets.

Deborah Stone

Sarah, Will UB My BFF?

U R so right: With the beehive and schoolmarm glasses, people really take you seriously!

Annabelle Gurwitch

Noted.

Sarah Palin, pit bull in lipstick; Amy Goodman behind bars.

The Editors

Revisiting New Orleans

It took Gustav to make Hurricane Katrina a campaign issue.

Michael Tisserand

Slow Food for Thought

Affluent foodies embrace sustainable agriculture, oblivious that ordinary people--especially the poor--don't have a seat at the table.

Eric Schlosser

Tale of Two Conventions

Populist politics in Denver; an elaborate fraud in St. Paul.

The Editors

Column

McCain and the Mortgage Meltdown

John McCain's fingerprints are all over our current financial crisis.

Robert Scheer

State Capitalism Comes to America

A historic line has been crossed. With no debate or commitment to policy or principle, an enormous segment of the American economy has been turned over to the government.

Nicholas von Hoffman

Mexico’s Drug Problem–and Ours

Drug-related violence tearing Mexican society apart. Is America next?

Nicholas von Hoffman

Q&A with Jim Brown

The Hall of Fame football legend discusses his experiences working with gangs in the black community and why the death penalty just doesn't work.

Dave Zirin

Sarah Palin’s Shotgun Politics

The vile politics of the party of abstinence stepped up to suffocate Bristol Palin in its embrace.

Gary Younge

New Orleans: The City That Won’t Be Ignored

Hurricane Gustav should have been political rat poison for the GOP; instead, it became an argument for drilling.

Naomi Klein

The Times, They Have A-Changed

Nothing short of a divine thunderbolt will get Obama's message through to the brain-dead media establishment.

Eric Alterman

The Legend of Flyboy McPlane

Rolling out of the hangar, ready for war.

Robert Grossman

Two Views of Hurricane Gustav and the Republicans

Calvin Trillin

Letters

Readers write back about the debut of a sex column, MoveOn at ten, the demise of newspapers and more.

Our Readers

Feature

The Secret Behind the Surge

Bob Woodward's new book on the Bush years in Iraq raises the possibility that extrajudicial killings--not the surge--were the biggest factor in reducing violence.

Tom Hayden

9/11 Plus Seven

Seven years after the attacks, the Bush Administration's strategy to transform the world has squandered our resources, buried us in debt and poses a greater strategic threat than O...

Andrew J. Bacevich

From Organizer to Elected Official

It's not that big a leap from the public service work done by community organizers and the pragmatic work of coalition-building done by elected officials.

Peter Dreier