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Letter From Arizona

Where to go if Dean pulls out of the race? Marc Cooper reports from Arizona.

Marc Cooper

Letter From South Carolina

The greatest threat to hopes of defeating Bush remains Democratic business as usual.

Bruce Shapiro

The Trouble with RFID

Instead of being used to track boots and books, these systems could be used to track us.

Simson L. Garfinkel

Pursuing the Millennium

The Zionist-colonial enterprise has always had a built-in propensity to gravitate towards its most extreme expression.

David Hirst

A Stealth Tax on Wages

The White House is trying to radically restructure the federal government's revenue-raising activities.

Eric Laursen

The Internet School Scam

A questionable plan to wire poor schools has turned into a business boondoggle.

Todd Oppenheimer

France, the United States & Iraq

Sharp criticism doesn't mean dislike.

Stanley Hoffmann

The New ‘Great Game’

In Central Asia, powerful players are competing for influence and energy sources.

Lutz Kleveman

Books & the Arts

What Are They Reading?

For a man ostensibly telling us what narcissism means to him, Tony Hoagland sure lets his friends do a lot of the talking. But maybe that's the point. In other people, he sees...

Megan Marz

Our Man in Chile

When Chilean President Salvador Allende was overthrown in a bloody coup on September 11, 1973, the Nixon Administration declared its support for the "preservation of Chi...

Nina Englander

Men in Black

Several generations of doomy, bookish youth have grown up listening to the Cure.

Douglas Wolk

Willi the Red

"This act of incendiarism is the most monstrous act of terrorism so far carried out," reported a 1933 Berlin newspaper.

Russell Jacoby

The Business of Theory

The last decade or two have witnessed an insidious shift in American culture, one that goes to the heart of the way we talk about our society.

William Deresiewicz

The New ‘Great Game’

In Central Asia, powerful players are competing for influence and energy sources.

Lutz Kleveman

Europa, Europa

Considered as a subset of the road movie, the post-Holocaust, return-to-Poland documentary has been a dismayingly static genre. Most of these films are journeys in only the ph...

Stuart Klawans