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July 9, 2007 Issue
Fiona Ng looks at human rights in Hong Kong, LynNell Hancock considers New York City school reform, Alexander Cockburn gives a history lesso…
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Editorial
A closer look at Hillary Clinton's career reveals a technocratic centrist whose political ambition might trump any progressive policy promises.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Official Washington wants to avoid the "divisive ordeal" of looking at what went wrong in Iraq. But upcoming hearings for Admiral Michael Mullins' nomination as chairman of the Jo...
Stanley I. Kutler
History is full of examples showing that policies designed to exclude immigrants are doomed to fail.
Mae Ngai
Oil money allows Hugo Chávez to do many things, but it will never be enough to buy a revolution.
Joaquín Villalobos
When lawmakers and the media failed to hold the Bush Administration to account, it was left to bureaucrats to defend the integrity of government.
Chris Hayes
The disaster in Gaza has many fathers, but its most direct cause was the Bush Administration's cynical manipulation of democracy promotion.
The Editors
Column
A new report on Halliburton's role in the failed reconconstruction of Iraq documents how profits of the merchants of death are rising.
Robert Scheer
The rickety financial skyscaper known as the subprime mortgage business is ready to tumble--and the rest of us may be buried in the rubble.
Nicholas von Hoffman
The Dangerous Book for Boys does no boy a favor by resuscitating the Anglo-imperial manly ideals. And what about girls?
Katha Pollitt
A grim history lesson of what happened in the 1920s when fears of alien infection inflamed American eugenicists.
Alexander Cockburn
Letters
SCRAP 'NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND'!
Cambridge, Mass.
Our Readers
Feature
A delegation of church leaders traveled to the US, calling on corporate mogul Ira Rennert to clean up the smelters that are poisoning the children of Peru.
Sara Shipley Hiles
If you think the Vice President's abuse of power is scary now, consider what might happen when he counts Electoral College votes in a divisive 2008 election.
Aziz Huq
She cuts her lawn slowly with a push mower. I save time, hiring men to run machines, burn gas, kill the ozone. Who's the wiser?
Donna Schaper
Something very strange has happened to food in the richest country in the world:
It's fast, but it ain't good. And it travels way too far a distance from the field to your fork.
Molly Schwartz and Donna Schaper
The Center for American Progress is calling to bring all combat forces--including trainers--home from Iraq.
Tom Hayden
When Wilton High School censored a student play about the Iraq war, the cast went to the Public.
Emily Douglas
Ten years of Chinese rule in Hong Kong hasn't resulted in severe human rights abuses, but full democracy has yet to emerge.
Fiona Ng
The radical corporate overhaul of NYC public schools is draining the soul from education and reducing learning to a series of standardized tests and progress reports.
LynNell Hancock
New polling data shows that the majority of Americans are leaning liberal. How long will it take politicians and the media to get that?
Rick Perlstein
Books & the Arts
Official Washington wants to avoid the "divisive ordeal" of looking at what went wrong in Iraq. But upcoming hearings for Admiral Michael Mullins' nomination as chairman of the Jo...
Stanley I. Kutler
Reviews of A Mighty Heart, Sicko, Czech Dream and Unborn in the USA.
Stuart Klawans
The realist crows return
at earliest morning.
And the madman with broom,
Michael Palmer
Martin Duberman's biography of Lincoln Kirstein is a case study of the relationship between art and power.
Lynn Garafola
Leonard Michaels's fiction captured his evolution from sex-obsessed misogyny to self-identified moralism.
Phillip Lopate
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