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August 29, 2005 Issue

Naomi Klein examines the roots of radical Islam, Jon Wiener and Alan Dershowitz trade letters and Stuart Klawans reviews Winter Soldier.

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

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Editorial

Teaching Sexuality

Efforts to suppress the sex ed curriculum in Maryland are working.

Liliana Segura

In Fact…

VOICES UNSILENCED

The Editors

Spectacle

Recent movies including War of the Worlds and Land of the Dead reflect today's political landscape.

Richard Goldstein

States of Disunion

In the wake of the labor split, nothing revolutionary or even progressive is discernible in this schism.

JoAnn Wypijewski

Roberts and Roe

Whether or not Roberts would overturn Roe, his judicial conservatism provides ample cause for concern.

Kate Michelman

Rhetoric & Withdrawal

As withdrawal from Iraq seems imminent, the antiwar movement must remain focused and organized.

The Editors

Column

Judith Miller: Embedded Over Her Head

The jailed reporter doesn't understand that a free press depends on the ability of reporters to protect honest witnesses--not to coddle government officials.

Robert Scheer

Bush’s Blind Spot on Iran

Threatening Iran only strengthens the hand of hard-line nationalists and religious fundamentalists in Tehran.

Robert Scheer

Terror’s Greatest Recruitment Tool

Though many blame Britain's excessive tolerance for the recent terrorist attacks, the real problem is not too much multiculturalism but too little.

Naomi Klein

Feminists for (Fetal) Life

Feminists for Life fails to acknowledge women as moral agents. And in that sense, they aren't feminists at all.

Katha Pollitt

The ‘Stricken’ President: When Down Is Up

Bush may be falling in the polls, but his political agenda is flourishing.

Alexander Cockburn

On President Bush’s Recess Appointment of John Bolton as Ambassador to the United Nations

Calvin Trillin

Letters

Tsuris Over Chutzpah

Cambridge, Mass.

Jon Wiener and Alan M. Dershowitz

Feature

Life Among the Neo-Pagans

Our reporter visits a "a magickal, psychedelic & multi-cultural" forest outing and asks, Are New Age, Old Religion believers an endangered species in Born Again America?

Paul Krassner

After Gaza: Back to Sanity?

Ordinary Israelis have run out of tears for the former settlers of Gaza and an outbreak of political sanity may be at hand.

Hillel Schenker

When China Went Shopping

Like oil and water, Chinese capitalism and US politics just don't mix.

Nicholas von Hoffman

Hip-Hop Voting Bloc?

If everything goes according to plan, a voting bloc as influential as the religious right, but progressive, could be established.

Adam Howard

Preaching Justice, Slaying Demons

As the Christian right gathered in Nashville for Justice Sunday II, they demonized their enemies and offered lukewarm praise for John G. Roberts.

Max Blumenthal

Disengagement From Peace?

Israel's withdrawal from Gaza represents a withdrawal from the peace process. If that occurs, its nightmare in Gaza could become a West Bank reality.

Marwan Bishara

The Philosophy of Art

Arthur Danto talks about art in America, the rise of pluralism and how The Nation changed his life.

Natasha Degen

Disengagement Mystery

What are Sharon's real reasons for pulling out of Gaza? What happens next? Hillel Schenker reports from Jerusalem.

Hillel Schenker

Lobbyist for the Lost Cause

Meet Richard Hines, GOP lobbyist, front man for weapons makers and hidden hand behind the extremist agenda of the neo-Confederate movement. Max Blumenthal expla...

Max Blumenthal