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February 4, 2008 Issue
Eric Foner on race and gender, Alexander Cockburn on economic terrorism, Nona Willis Aronowitz on Bella Abzug.
Cover art by: Cover photograph: Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend (1945, MGM); cover design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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Editorial
An economy addicted to growth, bubbles, downsizing and lending sprees--has become disconnected from the real economy of ordinary human needs.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Despite the cosmetic acts of President Bush, his undertakers and enablers, America's Iraq is still a corpse.
Tom Engelhardt
No matter who injected the issue of race and gender into the Democratic
presidential campaign, it's not going away.
Ari Berman
Improving the sorry state of US reproductive health policy requires serious shifts within the women's movement and the abortion rights movement.
Frances Kissling and Kate Michelman
Victor Navasky on failed punditry, Frida Berrigan on Bush's Israeli pilgrimage, Esther Kaplan on activist nurses.
The Editors
Advocates of African-Americans and women achieve more by working together than by fighting.
Eric Foner
When will the candidates cease their petty sniping and address the real issues: the Iraq War and the faltering economy?
The Editors
Column
The Clintons cannot compete with the enthusiasm Obama sets off so they are trying to destroy it. They just may succeed--but at an awful price.
Nicholas von Hoffman
Now that Dennis Kucinich is out of the presidential debates, don't expect Clinton or Obama to hold unregulated bankers accountable for the global economic meltdown.
Robert Scheer
No matter how much it adds to inflation, the Fed, prodded by Wall Street, is poised to again lower interest rates--punching an even bigger hole in our purchasing power.
Nicholas von Hoffman
If the campaign becomes a competition between race and gender, the winner will be whichever white man the GOP nominates.
Katha Pollitt
Lusting after pools of Social Security and Medicare money, the Wall Street giant aims to dictate national policy through the barrel of a financial gun.
Alexander Cockburn
Letters
Readers respond to Gary Younge on The Obama Effect, exchange views with Henry Siegman on Israel and comment about the subprime mortgage meltdown.
Our Readers and Henry Siegman
Feature
Long before a top bureaucrat was exposed for destroying secret interrogation tapes, the CIA shrouded his identity, making the press corps complicit in practices that would offend t...
Ted Gup
The Bush Administration cites a 1994 bombing in Argentina to tar Iran as a sponsor of global terror. But a fresh probe finds no evidence of an Iran connection.
Gareth Porter
MLK's biographer on presidents, politics, racial injustice, poverty and war.
Bruce Wallace
In Shanghai, angry, middle-class protesters say a high-speed train will wreck their quality of life. This new form of dissent could be one of the biggest challenges China will face...
Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Kang's political mentor--and reputed former lover--is found with a bullet in his brain. As the media is poised to pounce, she readies her talking points with a growing sense of dre...
Gary Phillips
The antiabortion movement has found a new face to exploit for political gain. And it's male.
Sarah Blustain
The US government relies heavily on the testimony of self-styled terrorism experts in prosecuting the "war on terror." But how credible are they?
Petra Bartosiewicz
Books & the Arts
MLK's biographer on presidents, politics, racial injustice, poverty and war.
Bruce Wallace
They just don't make women politicians like Bella Abzug anymore.
Nona Willis Aronowitz
Politically speaking
look at this
a word at a time
on my knee
looking forward to a picnic
with my friends
in the afternoon
in ...
Eileen Myles
A "rogue sociologist" gains unprecedented insight on the day-to-day workings of a Chicago gang.
Ted Conover
Marcus Rediker's breathtaking "human history" of the slave ship reveals how the transatlantic slave trade demeaned everyone it touched.
Christopher Leslie Brown
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