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July 7, 2008 Issue

Bruce Cumings on South Korea, Alexander Cockburn on Tim Russert, a poem by Pam Rehm…

Cover art by: Cover illustration by Drew Friedman of (from left to right) Jacob Weisberg, Slate; Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek; Chris Matthews, MSNBC; John McCain; Mika Brzezinski, MSNBC; and Nicholas Kristof, New York Times. Cover design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels

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Editorial

Liposuction: The Key to Energy Independence

Obese America is literally sitting on vast energy reserves--all we need to do is extract it and turn it into fuel.

Barbara Ehrenreich

How the Russert Test Failed America

Sure, he asked the tough questions. But why didn't he challenge the lies?

Linda Hirshman

Where’s the Beef?

South Koreans won't be buffaloed by US beef or the Bush Administration's erratic policies.

Bruce Cumings

Anatomy of a Price Surge

Oil companies, speculators and OPEC helped spike the cost of oil, but ruinous Bush Administration policies have compounded the damage.

Michael T. Klare

Noted.

Katrina vanden Heuvel analyzes the shuttering of Moscow's English-language alternative newspaper, the eXile; John Cavanagh remembers Stewart Mott.

The Editors

A Blow Against Gitmo

By a single vote, the Supreme Court stood up to an Administration that has declared war on the rule of law.

David Cole

The Audacity of Insiders

Barack Obama may yet become the reform President who rearranges power on behalf of the people. But he'll need to resist the brotherhood of cozy insiders.

The Editors

War Is Personal

In New Hampshire, a mother is reunited with her grievously wounded son.

Eugene Richards

Column

Well, There You Go. Imus the Bigot Is Back

Is Don Imus irredeemably stupid or just a run-of-the-mill racist?

Dave Zirin

Democrats Wrong on B-2 Project

An Air Force contract to build an obsolete B-2 refueling tanker has suddenly become a campaign issue--and the Democrats are on the wrong side.

Robert Scheer

A Conversation With NBA Union Man Billy Hunter

Billy Hunter has a progressive spine and a background that has taken him from working with Huey Newton to sitting across the table from the most formidable commissioner in sports, ...

Dave Zirin

Feminists for McCain? Not So Much

NARAL and Planned Parenthood give him a big fat zero. What else do you need to know?

Katha Pollitt

The Canonization of St. Tim

It's hard to explain the media delirium over a newsman who gave the powerful a pass on Iraq.

Alexander Cockburn

Iraq War Pay Per Day

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform breaks it down for you.

Steve Brodner

Tim Russert

Calvin Trillin

Letters

Obama No Boomer

Lakewood, Ohio

Our Readers

Feature

Remembering Eliot Asinof

Eliot Asinof, blacklisted author of Eight Men Out, created a lifetime of work celebrating rebels and victims of injustice.

Jeff Kisseloff

Rape as a Weapon of War

The UN resolution designating rape as a weapon of war is historic, but provides no legal remedy for wartime victims of sexual violence.

Slavenka Drakulic

No Blood For …er, um…

More than five years after the invasion of Iraq--just in case you were still waiting--the oil giants finally hit the front page.

Tom Engelhardt

Mind Games

This Week: Kang sips a martini and contemplates just what it is that billionaires do in their spare time.

Gary Phillips

Surveillance Bill: The Worst of All Worlds

House Democrats capitulate to pass a surveillance bill that further compromises our privacy and limits accountability of the government and telecoms. Will the Senate fight back?

Aziz Huq