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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.

Cover art by: Cover by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels

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Editorial

Khalilzad: Good News and Bad for UN

Zalmay Khalilzad promises be a more effective US ambassador to the UN, but is that a good thing?

Ian Williams

A Democratic Anomaly

When senators leave office, voters should choose their replacements.

John Nichols

Johnny Populist

John Edwards's hard-edged populism could be an antidote to the surreal Bush years.

Bob Moser

Destabilizing the Horn

Undeterred by blunders in Iraq, Bush opens another battlefront in Somalia.

Salim Lone

Ford, Nixon, The Nation

The story behind the story of Gerald Ford's pardon of Nixon.

Victor Navasky

The Saddam Spectacle

A videotaped hanging does not bring justice to Saddam's victims, living or dead.

Bruce Shapiro

The Democrats’ First Test

Do the Dems have the vision to force Bush to pull back on Iraq and rebuild the economy?

The Editors

Column

An Army at Peril

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’s Theater of the Absurd

Bush is the insolent star of an absurd spectacle, seeking to escalate a failed war that Congress and the people oppose.

Robert Scheer

Tax the Rich, End the War

Congress should levy a Victory Over Terror tax on the superrich which would expire once our troops are safely home.

Nicholas von Hoffman

Happy New Year!

Resolutions for liberals.

Katha Pollitt

Greater Than Warren Harding?

On Gerald Ford's greatness and the New York Times's ghastly coverage of Iraq.

Alexander Cockburn

Another New Policy for Iraq

Calvin Trillin

Letters

Decca–Still Raising a Ruckus

Berkeley, Calif.

Our Readers and Charles Taylor

Feature

Iraqi Civilians Brace for a Surge

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

Ominous Signs of a Wider War

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

New Jersey Could Kill the Death Penalty

The Garden State has become the center of gravity in the fight to abolish capital punishment.

Patrick Mulvaney

Incarceration Nation

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