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January 30, 2006 Issue
Mark Hertsgaard explores Green power in Germany, Alexander Cockburn reveals new details of FBI spying on Edward Said and Stuart Klawans revi…
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Editorial
Remembering Frank Wilkinson, American hero; full disclosure on Jack
Abramoff; Dave Letterman confronts Bill O'Reilly; a new baby for Nation contributing editors Liza Feather...
The Editors
Will Palestinians be compelled to live by Ariel Sharon's repressive vision or will they compel Israel to accept genuine self-determination for the
Palestinian people?
Mouin Rabbani
Suddenly, the Sharon era is over. And Sharon's centrist Kadima Party may emerge as the dominant force after the March 28 elections.
Hillel Schenker
No voice rings as hollow as Newt Gingrich's on the GOP culture of
corruption. Incredibly, the media are swallowing his story.
David Sirota
Cleaning up Congress after the Abramoff scandal involves far more than
limits on gifts and perks. It requires barring the 'legalized bribery'
of major campaign contributions.
The Editors
Column
It's appalingly clear Team Bush is unwilling to do the hard work it takes to make Afghanistan the functioning nation it was before cold war games tore it apart.
Robert Scheer
Women now outnumber men at colleges and universities, but higher
education has not become the fluffy pink playpen of feminism that some
conservatives envision.
Katha Pollitt
The FBI was probably tapping Edward Said's phone right up until the day
he died. Details are emerging of a surveillance effort that extended
for nearly thirty years.
Alexander Cockburn
Feature
Michelle Bachelet's election as Chile's first female president represents many things for her fellow citizens: the certainty of political continuity, the possibility of change and ...
Laila Weir
We're on our way to being a society of economic zombies, half dead and half alive, buried in debt but prevented by credit card companies from declaring bankruptcy.
Nicholas von Hoffman
If the Alito confirmation hearings were a test of Democratic strategy, the Alito vote to come is a test of moderate Republican integrity and mettle.
Bruce Shapiro
Vaccine production in the United States is in an alarming condition--with drug-makers wedded to outmoded techniques and government more focused on terror than pandemics.
Dr. Marc Siegel
For a long time on Capitol Hill, no one was interested in lobbying reform. Now everybody wants to get in on the act.
Ari Berman
A brutal raid on an encampment of refugees in Cairo has focused the world's attention on the netherworld Sudanese occupy in Egypt.
Negar Azimi
Samuel Alito and his handlers have crafted a disingenuous campaign that reeks of ethical compromise, bending Senate rules, bending the truth and compromising the confirmation proce...
Bruce Shapiro
Samuel Alito's blunt testimony on international law revealed the extremity of his judicial philosophy and carried profound implications for rulings he might make.
Bruce Shapiro
While the edges continue to be smoothed off Martin Luther King Jr.'s bracing challenges to racism, war and free-market exploitation, the holiday is a time to remember a leader who...
William P. Jones
The Green Party fell from power in recent German elections, but Greens continue to be the party to watch, a progressive influence on the world's third-largest economy.
Mark Hertsgaard
The Bush Administration's ill-advised new prescription drug program could destroy Medicare as a benefit for all Americans.
Trudy Lieberman
The time has come to call for the impeachment of President Bush. Any President who maintains he is above the law--and acts repeatedly on that belief--seriously endangers our consit...
Elizabeth Holtzman
Books & the Arts
Michael Haneke's Caché is a stylish thriller that scrapes away
at the surface of polite European affluence to lay bare the moral rot
beneath.
Stuart Klawans
Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism is a political
classic trapped in the era in which it was written.
Jonathan Rée
Kwame Anthony Appiah's Cosmopolitanism explores the middle ground between the universal laws of liberalism and relativism's blind respect for all
differences.
John Gray
While the edges continue to be smoothed off Martin Luther King Jr.'s bracing challenges to racism, war and free-market exploitation, the holiday is a time to remember a leader who...
William P. Jones
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