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January 10, 2005 Issue
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Editorial
Jack Newfield
Our friend Jack Newfield, who died on December 20, was a fight fan. Although his heart was with the peace movement, his love for this violent sport was appropriate in a number...
Stanton’s Wisdom
One afternoon in January 1892, in a packed convention hall in Washington, DC, the 76-year-old Elizabeth Cady Stanton rose from her seat to address the annual meeting of the Na...
Cincinnati’s ‘Beacon’
"Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, I'm free at last!" Nope, not the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Wrong for Civil Rights
When Mary Frances Berry resigned as chair of the Commission on Civil Rights on December 7, the media's harsh, fleeting spotlight on Berry's purported combativeness distracted ...
Trading Down
In less than five years, the garment industry in poor, war-ravaged Cambodia has more than doubled into a $1.5 billion industry employing 200,000 workers and generating nearly ...
Seeds of Hope
At the close of 2004, progressives can be forgiven for feeling they've found themselves in a particularly bleak midwinter.
Column
You Break It, You Pay For It
So it turns out Pottery Barn doesn't even have a rule that says, "You break it, you own it." According to a company spokesperson, "in the rare instance that something is broke...
A Reply to Peter Beinart
In my last column, I focused on the Kerry campaign's inability to articulate an alternative national security strategy.
Letters
Letters
Thomas Geoghegan and Laura Flanders and Our Readers and Laura Ross
Books & the Arts
Rapping on Empty
Several weeks ago the 32-year-old hip-hop superstar Eminem, America's staunchest and most spectacular amoralist, found himself in an unusual position, suddenly cast as the mor...
Israel’s Culture of Martyrdom
Nations like to imagine themselves as unique, but one belief they have in common is that it is noble to die in their name. Death and redemption are the themes of almost every ...
Stanton’s Wisdom
One afternoon in January 1892, in a packed convention hall in Washington, DC, the 76-year-old Elizabeth Cady Stanton rose from her seat to address the annual meeting of the Na...
