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June 25, 2007 Issue

Gara LaMarche on criminal justice reform, Patricia Williams on juries and the death penalty, and a Susan Stewart poem.

Cover art by: Cover by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels

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Editorial

Sick Children, Working Moms

Guilt-ridden mothers send ailing kids to school or daycare for fear of losing their jobs. Isn't it time for paid family leave?

Ellen Bravo

The Trouble With the Super-Rich

A bloated overclass can drag down a society as surely as a swelling underclass.

Barbara Ehrenreich

What America Owes its ‘Illegals’

The punitive rage directed at illegal immigrants grows out of a larger blindness to the manual labor that makes our lives possible.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Farewell, Tony and Carm

As we begin our final hour with Tony Soprano and his two families, it's hard not to feel a familiar sense of loss.

Max Fraser

After Willie Horton

Criminal justice reform, absent from the progressive agenda, must be a priority for Democratic candidates.

Gara LaMarche

Summer Lunch Crunch

It's going to be a hungry summer for low-income kids on vacation from school lunch programs.

Herman Schwartz

Neoconned Again

Expect no changes as Bush Administration hit man Robert Zoellick takes the helm of the World Bank.

John Nichols

Jackal Time

Will the Supreme Court declare banks immune from liability for their role in the Enron debacle?

Robert L. Borosage

The Great Pretender

The President's phony internationalism falls flat at the G-8 summit, more proof he has eroded US global leadership and cooperation.

The Editors

Column

President Lieberman: A Cautionary Tale

What would have happened if, by some twist of fate, Sen. Joe Lieberman had ended up in the White House instead of George W. Bush?

Robert Scheer

Divining Demeanor

The latest Supreme Court ruling on the death penalty will give prosecutors huge latitude to pick jurors who enthusiastically embrace capital punishment.

Patricia J. Williams

Tough Luck, Ladies

The Roberts Court rules that six months into being screwed by your boss, pay discrimination is your own damn fault.

Katha Pollitt

Dissidents Against Dogma

Even more contrarian thinking about global warming.

Alexander Cockburn

Alberto Gonzales Is Still at His Post

Calvin Trillin

Letters

Church of Free Trade’s Apostates

Arlington, Va.

William Greider and Our Readers

Feature

Russian Protests: The Big Guessing Game

After a surprisingly peaceful weekend of rallies, the first signs of dialogue between the Other Russia movement and the Kremlin are emerging. Will it last?

Mark Ames

Wall Street, Iraq and the Declining Dollar

The Iraq War, the declining supply of oil and a flood of US currency are setting the stage for economic disaster.

Ken Miller

Politics Watchdog Follows the Money Online

MAPlight.org, a Berkeley-based online watchdog, is breaking ground by using technology to track how political contributions shape legislation.

Joan Hamilton

In Praise of Immigrant Students

The educational odysseys of Hunter College's foreign-born graduates disprove the lies spread by anti-immigrant politicians.

Ellen Chesler

A White House Plan to Erode Our Liberties

Beyond its power to jail terror detainees, the Military Commissions Act is the spearhead of a more sustained and long-term incursion on all our civil liberties. It must be rolled b...

Aziz Huq

Are We Disturbing?

As leaders of the G-8 Summit played power politics at an opulent resort, protesters displayed a people's power, in demonstrations and at an alternative summit.

Robert S. Eshelman

A Permanent Military Empire

To mainstream media, the Bush Administration's full-scale garrisoning of Planet Earth is simply not a news story. But in Iraq beyond, America's empire of permanent bases grows at a...

Tom Engelhardt