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February 20, 2006 Issue

William Greider reveals how Democrats can sieze the day, Ari Berman documents DOJ interference in a 2002 prosecution of Jack Abramoff, Terry…

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Editorial

Reap the Whirlwind

The rise of Samuel Alito and the death of Coretta Scott King mark the end of an era and the abandonment of our civil rights legacy by both political parties.

Bruce Shapiro

The Leap Forward

Marshall Arisman

Coretta Scott King

The widows of great men either gracefully retire from history's stage or take their own lonely road. Coretta Scott King had little hesitancy about carrying on her husband's wo...

The Editors

A Warning Bell

Democrats can capitalize on the current economic stall and gain control of Congress with a return to bedrock principles: creating jobs, restoring incomes and rescuing families from...

William Greider

NSA Spying Myths

The Bush Administration has propagated five myths in its current campaign to rationalize its illegal domestic spying program.

David Cole

The Hamas Triumph

What if the West responded to Hamas's victory not with sanctions but with a commitment to resume negotiations from where they left off in 2000?

Graham Usher

Empire vs. Republic

Instead of Bush's imperial presidency, America needs the vision of Congressional progressives: rapid withdrawal from Iraq, universal healthcare, campaign reform and a shift to rene...

The Editors

Column

Pension? What Pension?

The stampede is on in corporate America to freeze or pare back pension benefits. And that will leave most of us out in the cold.

Nicholas von Hoffman

Bush’s War on the Poor

George W. Bush's irrational governance has wrought yet another outrage: The Administration's $2.77-trillion budget request.

Robert Scheer

Lies About Blowjobs, Bad. Wars? Not So Much.

Despite his lies and incompetence, Bush remains more popular with elite media than Clinton or any other political leader who sought to save us from the Iraq catastrophe. Why won't ...

Eric Alterman

All the King’s Horses…

Worry about the CIA's new Open Source Center, which aims to piece together all sorts of unclassified information to create a broad picture of where trouble is likely to arise.

Patricia J. Williams

I Dreamt That George W. Bush Adopted James Frey’s 3-Step Program–Denial, Larry King and Oprah–To Get to the Truth About the War in Iraq

Calvin Trillin

Letters

FRA ANGELICO: NOT A BASEBALL

New York City

Arthur C. Danto and Our Readers

Feature

Senators Mull an Internet With Restrictions

Telephone and cable bigwigs pitched their vision of a pay-to-play Internet to the Senate Commerce Committee Tuesday, and web visionaries pushed back. Lawmakers seemed baffled by th...

Celia Viggo Wexler and Dawn Holian

Fury Over Foreigners

Western cartoons deemed insulting to Islam are only part of what is fueling mob frenzy in Afghanistan. Growing rage against the presence of foreign troops and frustration with inef...

Christian Parenti

Georgia’s King Tribute Rings Hollow

Abolishing the death penalty was one of Coretta Scott King's signature issues. The irony is that Georgia remains one of the leading practitioners of the death penalty.

Patrick Mulvaney

Hey, Kids: Spying Is Fun!

Using cartoons, games and kid-friendly websites, the federal intelligence community is seeking to win the hearts and minds of America's children.

Simon Maxwell Apter

The Value of a Number

Racial tensions between black and Latino players have been exposed in the ongoing controversy over how to honor Roberto Clemente.

Dave Zirin

The JFK Lawyers’ Conspiracy

Forty-two years later, assassination buffs continue to attack the validity of the Warren Report.

Max Holland

Can Justice Be Trusted?

The Justice Department meddled in a case against Jack Abramoff in Guam in 2002; last week, Bush nominated the current Abramoff prosecutor to the federal bench. Can the DOJ credibly...

Ari Berman