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Noted Noted

Adam Hudson on living under drones, Peter Dreier on Barry Commoner, John Nichols on Bill Moyers’s new film on ALEC

Oct 3, 2012 / Various Contributors

The Corporate War on Labor The Corporate War on Labor

Disguised by its billionaire backers as campaign finance reform, California’s Proposition 32 would destroy the political power of unions.

Oct 3, 2012 / John Nichols

Remembering Eric Hobsbawm Remembering Eric Hobsbawm

Hobsbawm’s life and writings will long serve as an inspiration to those who believe that a knowledge of history is essential to working for a better world.

Oct 3, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner

Romney Outsources His Foreign Policy to the Neoconservatives Romney Outsources His Foreign Policy to the Neoconservatives

“After 9/11, the neocons captured one Republican president who was naïve about the world. Now…they have captured another would-be Republican president and vice president, both jejune about the world.”       —Maureen Dowd, The New York Times   Advisers to Mitt from the neocon right Believe that America must show its might. Though draft dodgers all, they’re in favor of force— With other folks’ kids on the front lines, of course. Through Romney’s campaign, they have all slithered back— The people who brought you the war in Iraq.

Oct 3, 2012 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Shut Up About the Jews Already… Shut Up About the Jews Already…

How right-wing Jewish organizatons misrepresent both the views and the influence of American Jews.

Oct 3, 2012 / Column / Eric Alterman

What Race Has to Do With It What Race Has to Do With It

This election has posed a challenge of self-control for Republicans raised on a diet of welfare queens and Willie Horton.

Oct 3, 2012 / Column / Gary Younge

Do You Only Have a Brain? On Thomas Nagel Do You Only Have a Brain? On Thomas Nagel

A philosopher’s broadside against Darwinism and materialism is mostly an instrument of mischief.

Oct 3, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Brian Leiter and Michael Weisberg

Breadwinner Conservatism: On Robert O. Self

Breadwinner Conservatism: On Robert O. Self Breadwinner Conservatism: On Robert O. Self

How the American right’s obsession with male status legitimated the transition to a neoliberal ethos.

Oct 3, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Michelle Goldberg

Raw Judicial Power: On William Rehnquist Raw Judicial Power: On William Rehnquist

The Partisan is a weak account of the career and legal thinking of a conservative and obstreperous chief justice.

Oct 3, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Michael O’Donnell

There Is No Debate: Mitt Romney Would Raise Taxes There Is No Debate: Mitt Romney Would Raise Taxes

Everyone's talking about how Romney won’t name the tax deductions he will reduce—but he’s named three.

Oct 3, 2012 / George Zornick

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