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June 18, 2007 Issue
The Editors on what lies ahead for Congress, Michael Reynolds on the abstinence gluttons, Barry Schwabsky on the art of Gordon Matta-Clark.
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Editorial
Sports Illustrated's "all time" team is unfairly skewed to honor major league players from the segregation era at the expense of equally deserving players from the Negro Lea...
Jonathan Cohen
A lack of hard evidence in the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko has stopped neither the wheels of British justice nor the cameras of Hollywood.
Edward Jay Epstein
Thanks in part to Condi Rice's machinations to foment regime change in Iran, three innocent people are now charged with espionage.
H. Abrishami
Her unscripted activism was characterized by an element so often missing from politics: genuineness. But we haven't seen the last of Cindy Sheehan.
John Nichols
On the fortieth anniversary of Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories, the issue remains unchanged: the rights of two peoples to live in peace and dignity on fully equal te...
The Editors
Democrats in Congress failed to deliver on their promises, and for progressives that means there's a lot more work to do.
The Editors
Column
Slugger Gary Sheffield's intemperate remarks about the black/Latino divide have rattled batting cages and plunged baseball into the immigration debate.
Dave Zirin
They're laughed at and pushed to the edge of the podium as frontrunners dominate the debate, but they sometimes have the guts to tell the truth.
Nicholas von Hoffman
Bush's proposal to model America's presence in Iraq is as outlandish as it is alarming.
Robert Scheer
A new biography reveals that the Senator from New York--and a host of other Democrats--did not get all the facts before casting a crucial vote to invade Iraq.
Nicholas von Hoffman
The Iraq War has set off one of the largest oil booms in history--and the race to mine the tar sands of Alberta is heading toward environmental disaster.
Naomi Klein
The New York Sun's alleged success is a figment of its conservative owners' imaginations.
Eric Alterman
Feature
What does a politicized Justice Department look like? Political hack Bradley Schlozman gave the Senate Judiciary Committee an idea when he testified about his tenure as a US Attorn...
Justin Levitt
The people of New Orleans suffered another blow with the indictment of Representative William Jefferson. They deserve better.
Billy Sothern
Eric Alterman, arrested in New Hampshire over whether he really belonged at a post-debate party, explains exactly what happened.
Joan Connell
A Palestinian writer discusses her new book and her attempts to humanize the plight of people living in the occupied territories for Western readers.
Molly Bennet
Prochoice activists are taking a page from the right by applying a values-driven strategy designed to prevent abortions.
Stephanie Condon
A cultural icon advises Gettysburg College graduates that social disengagement puts at risk everything unique and idealistic about our way of life.
Harold Prince
A journalist speaks to UC Berkeley graduates about how the Bush Administration uses and abuses language to manipulate public opinion and distort reality.
Mark Danner
Meet the religious conservatives at the faith-based feeding trough who are getting rich controlling sex education in America.
Michael Reynolds
Zionism has run its course, and in doing so has killed any possibility of a two-state solution.
Saree Makdisi
Let's give up the illusion of a two-state solution--Israel's already a binational state.
Meron Benvenisti
Books & the Arts
A cultural icon advises Gettysburg College graduates that social disengagement puts at risk everything unique and idealistic about our way of life.
Harold Prince
A journalist speaks to UC Berkeley graduates about how the Bush Administration uses and abuses language to manipulate public opinion and distort reality.
Mark Danner
Four decades later, much of the thrill is gone from The Beatles' magnum opus. Except for one song.
Jon Wiener
Gordon Matta-Clark's art displays how empty spaces illuminate the structures they are housed in.
Barry Schwabsky
Teenage presents a lively but scattershot portrait of youth in the modern era.
Mark Sorkin
Tracing the course of Zionism and the splintered state it has created.
Brian Klug
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