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April 21, 2008 Issue

Patrick Cockburn on Muqtada al-Sadr, Nir Rosen on the surge, Calvin Trillin on the Democrats.

Cover art by: Cover illustration by Victor Juhasz; cover design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels

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Editorial

Noted.

Henry Paulson's pitiful reform; Michelle Bachelet, bedeviled by Opus Dei; Pentagon follies; and indecency in Indiana.

The Editors

Dems Flunking Trade 101

As Clinton rewrites the history of her support for NAFTA, Obama needs to prove he understands what's wrong with global trade pacts.

John Nichols

Shown Up by Sadr, Again

To the humiliation of the US and Iraqi governments, the cleric's forces have faced down the Iraqi Army and are in control of Basra and half of Baghdad.

Patrick Cockburn

Guantánamo Endgame

New revelations of political interference in the prosecution of Gitmo prisoners shows Team Bush scrambling to keep one step ahead of history--and of criminal charges.

The Editors

Journalists As Truth-Tellers

Journalism can still make a difference, but the truth matters more. And if you can't get to the truth through journalism, there are other ways to get there.

Bill Moyers

Truckers Hit the Brakes

Hard hit by rising costs and the threat of losing their rigs, truckers are staging protests, calling for a bailout and lower fuel prices. What if the rest of us joined them?

Barbara Ehrenreich

Column

Where Credit Is Due

To view education as a profit-making business is to attack the lifelong love of learning.

Patricia J. Williams

Blowing Smoke

In Nicholson Baker's cut-and-paste history, the "good war" is bad.

Katha Pollitt

On the Struggle For The Democratic Nomination

Calvin Trillin

Mallets

Robert Grossman

Painful Performance

By urging lawmakers to stay the course in Iraq, General David Petraeus remained loyal to his President, but failed the American people.

Robert Scheer

Letters

Readers weigh in on our endorsement of Obama, our coverage of terrorism and our grammar.

The Nation

Feature

Another KBR Rape Case

In the wake of Jamie Leigh Jones's highly publicized charges, a woman comes forward with new allegations of a brutal sexual assault and cover-up at a KBR camp in Iraq.

Karen Houppert

Inside the Surge

The US occupation has torn Iraq into fragments, and sectarian militias are on the rise.

Nir Rosen

Chalabi’s Lobby

Lobbyist Charles Black, now embroiled in controversy as a senior advisor to John McCain, was among those who aided Ahmed Chalabi's deceptive campaign for war in Iraq.

Aram Roston

All Aboard the McCain Express

The conservative noise machine is coming around to support him--if it can keep its stories straight.

Rick Perlstein

Iraq’s Ruined Library Soldiers On

Five years ago this week, US troops stood by as mobs sacked Iraq's revered National Library and Archives. Despite little outside help, a cultural treasure soldiers on.

R.H. Lossin