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June 11, 2007 Issue
Nick Turse considers the secret air war in Iraq, Lizzy Ratner examines surgeons, Mark Weisbrot ponders the World Bank.
Cover art by: Cover art by Victor Juhasz; design: Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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Editorial
Paul Wolfowitz's resignation won't reform the World Bank. But it could spark a new era of independence from the International Monetary Fund.
Mark Weisbrot
Will a donation from Nike deflect Stanford's efforts to curb sweatshop labor in the making of its sports regalia?
The Editors
What is it that Congressional Democrats don't get about the Iraq debate?
The Editors
The Senate's "grand bargain" on immigration may be the best deal to be done in the present political climate, but it's still not good enough.
The Editors
Alberto Gonzales now stands revealed as an unambiguous conspirator against the Constitution--as does his boss.
The Editors
Column
Now that Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter has presented him with a grandson, maybe it's time for Grandpa to join PFLAG.
Robert Scheer
Jason Giambi finally got around to telling the truth about baseball and steroids. So naturally, Major League Baseball is out to smear him.
Dave Zirin
Who says American feminists have ignored the plight of Muslim women?
Katha Pollitt
More contrarian thinking on climate change.
Alexander Cockburn
Feature
As conditions worsen inside Baghdad's embattled Green Zone, construction continues on a grandiose US Embassy complex that mirrors Bush Administration delusions of a reordered Middl...
Tom Engelhardt
To live and dine in California, where one in four is an immigrant, is to sit at a global table. And a bland national cuisine is heating up.
Andrew Lam
New chasms are opening in the unequal terrain of American society: To the ranks of exploited domestics and factory workers, consider the emerging proletariat of adjunct faculty and...
Barbara Ehrenreich
A group of economists is challenging the most basic assumptions of neoclassical economic theory, and their influence is growing.
Chris Hayes
Bombs from American planes are killing tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians, and no one in the mainstream media is talking about it.
Nick Turse
Iraq has prompted the fastest-growing refugee crisis in the world, and it's threatening to destabilize the entire region.
Stephen Glain
Books & the Arts
As conditions worsen inside Baghdad's embattled Green Zone, construction continues on a grandiose US Embassy complex that mirrors Bush Administration delusions of a reordered Middl...
Tom Engelhardt
Reviews of the animated psychoanalytic sci-fi thriller Paprika, 9 Star Hotel and Poison Friends.
Stuart Klawans
Atul Gawande offers up a banal self-help manual for aspiring MDs, while Pauline Chen prescribes a dose of compassion.
Lizzy Ratner
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Evening succeeds evening.
Demons discourse
on familiar topics.
Rae Armantrout
Two new books on the AIDS epidemic in Africa suggest that the best treatment may be found in the continent's own social movements.
Andrew Rice
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