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December 24, 2007 Issue

The Editors on Iran, Bill Weinberg on Iraq’s civil resistance, Benjamin Paloff on poetry.

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

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Editorial

Why I Won’t Be Invited to Mitt Romney’s White House

My top-ten list of reasons why I gave God the old heave-ho.

Annabelle Gurwitch

Bonfire of the Disney Princesses

Disney's idea of sex doesn't belong in the pre-K playroom. Parents, unite: make a holiday bonfire of all that plastic and tulle: let your girls be girls again.

Barbara Ehrenreich

False Alarm

A predawn fire drill propels a writer into an unexpected encounter with a former CIA director--and an unexpected lesson on the uses and limits of intelligence.

Ted Gup

A Precious and Painful Vision of the Future

We have everything we need to address the environmental crisis, save perhaps political will. But political will is a renewable resource.

Al Gore

Setting the Record Straight on FISA

Civil liberties and national security are not contradictory: they are inextricably linked.

Rep. John Conyers

Ron Paul’s Roots

His phenomenal candidacy is giving the long-fractured libertarian movement a Kumbaya moment.

Chris Hayes

Noted.

Facebook's about-face on privacy; life in the Garden State; Midnight Oil's Peter Garrett, Australia's new environment minister.

The Editors

Iran’s Nukes Fade Away

The revised National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's nukes makes a military strike less likely and opens the door to real diplomacy.

The Editors

Blackwater’s Bu$ine$$

Undeterred by scandal, Blackwater's global business is booming and continues to pursue its political agenda from deep inside the Mitt Romney campaign.

Jeremy Scahill

Column

Waterboarding Democracy

Why did four key members of Congress failed to inform the public and the 9/11 Commission about the use of torture on terror suspects?

Robert Scheer

Sports 2007: It Was a Very Bad Year

Michael Vick's sentencing to twenty-three months in prison caps a depressing and scandalous year for professional sports.

Dave Zirin

Sovereign Wealth: Theirs, Not Ours

As the US economy sickens, foreign governments are on a shopping spree, scooping up bargains paid for by sovereign wealth funds.

Nicholas von Hoffman

What’s Really Wrong With the MSM?

They've lost our trust by providing conservatives a platform for deliberate deceptions, silencing reporters for revealing the truth and excusing their own self-serving behavior.

Eric Alterman

The Audacity of Oprah

The combined power of Oprah & Obama could reinvigorate our embattled political landscape.

Patricia J. Williams

Rudy Remodels

Robert Grossman

A Short Summary of What Karl Rove Now Says About the Origins of the War

Calvin Trillin

Letters

Letters on Steve Brodner's caricatures, Graham Usher's metaphors and an exchange between Jim Sleeper and Joe Klein.

Our Readers and Jim Sleeper

Feature

Bad Sex in the City

There's something untrustworthy about a man who can't conduct a decent affair. Rudy Giuliani never could.

JoAnn Wypijewski

Hoodwinked in Bali on Carbon Credits

A UN conference touts carbon trading as the best response to global warming. Why adopt a framework that pits rich against poor, exploits the indigenous and gives the biggest corpor...

Daphne Wysham

Torture Tapes: Failure at All Levels

CIA, Department of Justice, White House--and members of Congress--ran through every legal and procedural red light designed to prevent criminal conduct and its cover-up.

Aziz Huq

Israel’s Palestinians Speak Out

Israel's indigenous Palestinian population rejects the efforts of Israel and the United States to seal our fate as a permanent underclass in our own homeland.

Nadim Rouhana

Our Inalienable Human Rights

Despite their political differences, Americans are strikingly united on the value of human rights, according to a new poll sponsored by The Nation.

Alan Jenkins

Fear on the Campaign Trail

As Democratic candidates strive to keep their messages upbeat and cheerful, they should take a lesson from the environmental movement on the power of fear to motivate political cha...

Glenn Hurowitz

Forum on Venezuela

Differing views on the defeat of constitutional reforms championed by President Hugo Chávez from Mark Weisbrot, Sujatha Fernandes, Chesa Boudin, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl an...

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