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March 16, 2009 Issue

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Editorial

Partial Peace, Looming War

The peace movement claims victory with Obama's promise to pull US troops from Iraq by 2011. But elsewhere in a volatile world, a long war looms.

Tom Hayden

The Post’s Stimulus Chimp

The uproar over the New York Post's racially insensitive cartoon has nothing to do with Al Sharpton and everything to do with the ugly history of stereotypes.

Les Payne

Why We Detain the Innocent

Yet again the courts have ignored the Constitution and legal precedent, leaving seventeen innocent Guantánamo detainees in legal limbo.

Aziz Huq

Crisis of Faith

As the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court reviews defrocked priest Paul Shanley's conviction on child rape charges, "repressed memory" will be held up to scientific scrutiny.

JoAnn Wypijewski

Noted.

MOVING ON: Justin Ruben, the new executive director of MoveOn.org, brought a message from his 5 million members when he met with President Barack Obama at a

The Editors

Obama ♥ Carrots

The White House plan to keep homeowners out of foreclosure seems to have the stick-to-carrot ratio about right.

Chris Hayes

Obama’s Call to Action

Let's make sure Obama's investment in America's future isn't squandered in the mountains of Afghanistan.

The Editors

Column

Barry Bonds in Context

This is not about steroids, or an arrogant athlete getting his comeuppance--it's about the mess Bush made of the Justice Department.

Dave Zirin

AIG: Billions Dished Out in the Dark

Taxpayers now own 80 percent of virtually worthless AIG--for us, this bailout is all pain and no gain.

Robert Scheer

The Second Great Depression

People are beginning to say that the Big One has arrived. But how will we know? And what will it take to emerge from it?

Nicholas von Hoffman

Precarious Populism

The global depression is spawning social unrest, which the extreme right might try to hijack--a good reason for the left to be well organized and engaged.

Gary Younge

War Is Over (If You Want It)

This just in: we won the Iraq War. And for the past eight years George W. Bush kept us safe.

Eric Alterman

Pundits Say Washington Must Instill Confidence

Calvin Trillin

Letters

The Future of Social Security

New York City

William Greider and Our Readers

Feature

The GOP’s Hip-Hop Makeover

Michael Steele's getting funky, frantically remixing the GOP message, in hopes of reaching new generation of conservative voters. Is anybody listening?

Ari Melber

V.G. Kiernan: Historian of Humankind

Remembering a historian of the left, an ideological warrior against empire, witness to India's anticolonial struggles and a persuasive critic of torture and government oppression.

John Trumpbour

Economically Fueled Upheaval

As people lose confidence in the ability of markets and governments to solve the global crisis, the likeliness of violence increases.

Michael T. Klare

We Need a Department of Homegrown Security

Drop the scary Bush lingo and start creating resilient communities than can effectively recover from disaster in this age of financial and climate chaos.

Chip Ward

Lessons in Democracy From Bangladesh

An instructive election in Bangladesh demonstrates that in Muslim countries around the world, the United States really needs to let democracy take its own course.

Jalal Alamgir

Opening the Files on Bush’s Secrets

Freedom of Information wish list: What did Treasury do with the TARP money? Who authorized torture? Plus, warrantless wiretap targets, FEMA's Katrina records and White House e-mail...

Jon Wiener