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Now He Has the Power Now He Has the Power

What will Dean do with the DNC?

Feb 17, 2005 / Feature / John Nichols

In Radical Matrimony In Radical Matrimony

Suzanne Wasserman's documentary Thunder in Guyana, which airs on PBS's Independent Lens series at 10 pm on February 22, is the first in-depth look at Janet Jagan, former presiden...

Feb 17, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Baz Dreisinger

When Seeing Was Believing When Seeing Was Believing

In Hegel's formidable system of aesthetics, fine art fulfills its highest calling when "it has placed itself in the same sphere as religion and philosophy." Philosophy, religion ...

Feb 17, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

Back to Salem Back to Salem

Off goes former Father Paul Shanley to state prison in Massachusetts for twelve to fifteen years, convicted of digitally raping and otherwise sexually abusing Paul Busa two decad...

Feb 17, 2005 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Dazed and Confused Dazed and Confused

Perhaps no cultural phenomenon has been as successful at demonizing alcohol as MTV's The Real World. Watch it sometime. You'll never want to drink again.

Feb 17, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Suzy Hansen

Constantine Constantine

About two-thirds of the speaking characters in Constantine are either demons or angels.

Feb 17, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Arthur Miller Arthur Miller

When a figure like the playwright Arthur Miller dies, his greatness swells in retrospect in a mound of accumulated tributes and memories; attention is paid to the plays--so deepl...

Feb 17, 2005 / The Editors

Negroponte’s Dark Past Negroponte’s Dark Past

How many times can I write the same piece about John Negroponte? Today George W. Bush named him to the new post of Director of National Intelligenc...

Feb 17, 2005 / David Corn

Free-Speech Fights Free-Speech Fights

Rummaging through Yale University's library shelves in early 2001 to prepare a talk on news media and genocide, I came across a study of nineteenth-century Colorado newspapers by...

Feb 17, 2005 / Bruce Shapiro

Beyond Boycotts Beyond Boycotts

Absent George W. Bush's undergoing a conversion like St. Paul's on the road to Damascus, there probably won't be much good environmental news out of Washington in Bush's second t...

Feb 17, 2005 / Mark Hertsgaard

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