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August 27, 2007 Issue

Ari Berman looks at Hillary and labor, Moshik Temkin remembers Sacco and Vanzetti, Daniel Lazare considers prison reform.

Cover art by: Cover design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels

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Editorial

Smashing Capitalism

The victims of the housing market's collapse are crippling an unjust economic system.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The Real Lesson of the Padilla Conviction

If it had followed the rule of law from the outset, the Bush Administration could have brought many terrorists to justice by now.

David Cole

Rupert Gets His Wish

One lucky man!

Robert Grossman

Sacco & Vanzetti Today

History sheds no new light on their guilt or innocence. But it does make clear that their trial and execution was an unjust and intolerable act of barbarism.

Moshik Temkin

Farm Bill Showdown

As he shapes the Senate farm bill, Tom Harkin should heed progressives and forge legislation that ends subsidies and gives a fair shake to family farmers.

John Nichols

Funding Higher Ed

The Congressional overhaul of federal student aid is a good first step, but true reform of the system will require an effort on the scale of the GI Bill.

Anya Kamenetz

Things Fall Apart

The Minneapolis bridge collapse should prod all presidential candidates, especially Democrats, to come up with real plans to fix our crumbling infrastructure.

The Editors

Column

The Real Iraq Progress Report

The parade of political tourists to Iraq in recent weeks suggests that this murderous adventure will continue well into the next presidency.

Robert Scheer

The Money Surge

In an effort to bolster the surge and tamp down violence in Iraq, the US military is buying off insurgents. But what happens if they don't stay bought?

Nicholas von Hoffman

Hillary Pushes the Button

What in the world was Clinton thinking when she attacked Obama for pledging not to use nuclear weapons in the hunt for Osama bin Laden?

Robert Scheer

The Protect Alberto Gonzales Act of 2007

Congress bows to Bush and passes a law that allows blanket data-mining of all phone calls or e-mail by anyone, anywhere.

Patricia J. Williams

Who’s Sorry Now?

Michael Ignatieff apologizes for being wrong on Iraq. If only mainstream media acknowledged all the people who were right.

Katha Pollitt

How the Democrats Blew It in Only 8 Months

Are we better off or worse since the Democrats won back Congress?

Alexander Cockburn

Disappointment in Iowa

Calvin Trillin

Letters

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Jon Wiener and Our Readers

Feature

Bush’s Immigration Clampdown Crimped

A federal judge in San Francisco has put on hold new Homeland Security regulations designed to crack down on illegal immigrants in the workplace.

David Bacon

Reading Arendt in Caracas

A student movement influenced by Hannah Arendt is emerging in Venezuela. What do they think of the Bolivarian Revolution?

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

Sarko’s Gift to the Wealthy

France's new president has launched an assault on the welfare state.

Jordan Stancil

What ‘Progress’ in Iraq Really Means

The cost of deploying a soldier, the number of bullets fired for each insurgent killed, the percentage of Iraqi babies born underweight. A portrait-by-numbers of the Iraq catastrop...

Tom Engelhardt

Minnesota’s Weeping Republicans

The institutional neglect that brought Minnesota's Republicans into power has led to tragedy and scandal.

David Rubenstein

Goodbye, St. Thomas

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans's ruling class is demolishing public housing to make way for private businesses and expensive condos.

Billy Sothern

The Gay Presidential Debate

What do the Democratic presidential candidates talk about when they talk about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues?

E.J. Graff

Hillary’s Labor Gambit

Senator Clinton has a pro-worker voting record. So why are unionists skeptical?

Ari Berman

The Diana/Whore Complex

The lovelorn, fragile women the media once revered have given way to skank posses of the skinny, the slutty and the overindulged.

Lakshmi Chaudhry

The NAFTA Superhighway

The NAFTA Superhighway is a total myth. But the private Trans-Texas Corridor is all too real, foretelling a future America in which globalism and crony capitalism eclipse governmen...

Chris Hayes