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April 30, 2007 Issue
Ari Berman describes efforts to reform campaign finance, Lawrence Goodwyn predicts a shift in national politics, and Mark M. Anderson review…
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Editorial
Although many historians have condemned Alger Hiss as a Soviet spy, the facts of his story remain obscure.
Victor Navasky
Although many historians have condemned Alger Hiss as a Soviet spy, the facts of his story remain obscure.
Victor Navasky
The upcoming elections in Nigeria could signal an important turning point in Africa's troubled road to democracy.
John Ghazvinian
A new Reaganomics is taking hold in Europe, with grave implications for progressive politics everywhere.
Jordan Stancil
The modern campaign finance system is broken. Congress should pass laws that will fix it.
Ari Berman
By refusing to negotiate at home and abroad, Bush has become isolated and dangerous.
The Editors
Column
In the larger context, the flap over Don Imus's racial slur is only one tiny square in our dirty national quilt.
Alexander Cockburn
Wolfowitz is in trouble. The World Bank leader got his girlfriend a pay
raise, lied about it and alienated his staff. But don't worry--Bush
still thinks he's doing a bang-up job.
Robert Scheer
Letters
BLACKWATER: GUNS FOR HIRE
St. Petersburg, Fla.
Thanks for Jeremy Scahill's April 2 cover story, "
Our Readers and Jeremy Scahill
Feature
How the pugnacious, money-losing New York Sun has won friends and influenced conservatives.
Scott Sherman
Public anxiety over the economy could lead to a permanent restructuring of America's political parties.
Lawrence Goodwyn
An unlikely dissident has proposed a new way to understand, and
reform, the world economy.
William Greider
The desire to impose a narrative on chaotic events leaves the meaning of
the Virginia Tech shootings up for grabs.
Bruce Shapiro
Newcomer Supreme Court Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito showed their true stripes by supporting a landmark late-term abortion ban.
Karen Houppert
What happens when a student magazine committed to fostering dialogue opens its pages to critical views on Israel?
Eyal Press
When the shooter at Virginia Tech was identified to be Korean American,
other minorities heaved a sigh of relief. But should they?
Andrew Lam
Azmi Bishara, a member of the Knesset, has been charged with treason for speaking out against injustices committed by Israel.
Neve Gordon
Candidates are eager to "keep all options on the table," but where's the table?
Eric Kenning
Working people have more in common with a sponge who lives in a pineapple than with the picture painted of job growth by the current Administration.
Annabelle Gurwitch
Vietnam is experiencing its worst crackdown on human rights in decades, and US policy bears part of the blame.
Andrew Lam
The media's superficial coverage of Don Imus avoids important questions
about free speech and race.
Nicholas von Hoffman
Books & the Arts
The comic novel Measuring the World re-imagines the lives of two of the nineteenth century's greatest scientists.
Mark M. Anderson
Three Empires on the Nile, a lively retelling of Britain's colonial exploits in Africa, conjures up images of wild-eyed Arabs waging jihad in the desert.
Maya Jasanoff
In William Dalrymple's The Last Mughal, the 1857 Uprising against British rule in India is recast as a cross-border friendship gone sour.
Gyan Prakash
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