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January 22, 2007 Issue
Bob Moser on John Edwards, Bruce Shapiro on Saddam’s hanging, poet Peter Gizzi on Mathew Brady’s photographs.
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Editorial
Zalmay Khalilzad promises be a more effective US ambassador to the UN, but is that a good thing?
Ian Williams
When senators leave office, voters should choose their replacements.
John Nichols
John Edwards's hard-edged populism could be an antidote to the surreal Bush years.
Bob Moser
Undeterred by blunders in Iraq, Bush opens another battlefront in Somalia.
Salim Lone
The story behind the story of Gerald Ford's pardon of Nixon.
Victor Navasky
A videotaped hanging does not bring justice to Saddam's victims, living or dead.
Bruce Shapiro
Do the Dems have the vision to force Bush to pull back on Iraq and rebuild
the economy?
The Editors
Column
The surge is Bush's last throw of the dice. If it fails, he may decimate an exhausted Army and leave the nation without reserves.
Nicholas von Hoffman
Bush is the insolent star of an absurd spectacle, seeking to escalate a failed war that Congress and the people oppose.
Robert Scheer
Congress should levy a Victory Over Terror tax on the superrich which would expire once our troops are safely home.
Nicholas von Hoffman
Resolutions for liberals.
Katha Pollitt
On Gerald Ford's greatness and the New York Times's ghastly coverage of Iraq.
Alexander Cockburn
Feature
Sunni civilians have reason to fear more fighting, not only from a potential surge of US troops but also Kurdish militias mobilized by the Iraqi government.
David Enders
The naming of Adm. William Fallon to replace Gen. John Abizaid as head of Centcom is an ominous sign that Bush is preparing for a wider war.
Michael T. Klare
The Garden State has become the center of gravity in the fight to
abolish capital punishment.
Patrick Mulvaney
America now leads the world in the number of people behind bars. But
hope is emerging that state governments and the courts will seek to hold back
the hand of the carceral state.
Silja J.A. Talvi
Democrats are on the verge of a fundamental shift in the regional balance of political power.
Sasha Abramsky
A Congress that takes the Constitution seriously can force the White
House to do the same.
John Nichols
Tell us how progressives in Congress can promote bold new initiatives, end an illegal war and call an abusive President to account.
Chuck Collins
Ten good bills await passage that could make a real difference.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Its time our leaders recognize Americans hold a set of values that contradict the conservative agenda that has dominated politics for a generation.
Bill Moyers
Books & the Arts
Celebrating the eloquence of the feminist, activist and writer in whose work memory, history, poetry and prophecy converge.
John Leonard
Reviews of Guillermo del Toro's dizzying Pan's Labyrinth and part two of Clint Eastwood's World War II opus, Letters From Iwo Jima.
Stuart Klawans
Jimmy Carter has been vilified for saying things about the occupation in his new book that appear regularly in Israeli newspapers.
Henry Siegman
Jay-Z, self-styled savior of hip-hop, is the face of the new establishment.
Jeff Chang
Sunlight and plant light
glass and stain
the campaign the conflict
the dead frozen in air
the sun and the sweat
the swell of fetid flesh
Peter Gizzi
On Gerald Ford's greatness and the New York Times's ghastly coverage of Iraq.
Alexander Cockburn
The story behind the story of Gerald Ford's pardon of Nixon.
Victor Navasky
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