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March 27, 2006 Issue

The Editors acknowledge the third anniversary of the Iraq War, Christian Parenti files a dispatch from Afghanistan and Helen Thomas assails…

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Editorial

‘Nation’ Notes

PHOTO NATION. With this issue, we begin a new series, Photo Nation. The first photo essay and accompanying text are by Eugene Richards, a photojournalist and filmmaker, is t...

The Editors

A Peculiar Politician

Senator Russell Feingold should be praised for calling on the Senate to censure the President for breaking the law and lying about his domestic spying program. Instead, he's mocked...

William Greider

Helping China’s Censors

The Global Online Freedom Act should be the beginning of a conversation about what needs to be done to prevent US Internet and technology firms from contradicting American values.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Leaking Bubble

The US housing market has been responsible for about half the economy's recent growth, but increasing dependence on home-equity credit could create a financial disaster.

Doug Henwood

A Dragon Slayer Returns

Pete McCloskey, the first Republican member of Congress to call for Nixon's impeachment and withdrawal from Vietnam, has resurfaced at 78 to challenge Richard Pombo and the Iraq Wa...

Mark Hertsgaard

Bringing the War Home

The antiwar messages most likely to be heard and acted upon by Congressional Democrats and wavering Republicans will come from their hometowns, where a growing number of activists ...

John Nichols

Three Years and Counting

The American public acknowledges the failure of US ground forces in Iraq. With civil war imminent, when will our "leaders" in Washington accept the same conclusion?

The Editors

Column

A Whole New Ball Game

Major League Baseball owners may gripe, but the World Baseball Classic provides a glimpse of an alternative future for our national pastime.

Dave Zirin

Improvised Explosive Delusions

As Bush continues to insist the US is bringing peace and freedom to Iraq, his latest plan to quell the insurgency spends billions more to stem the use of improvised explosive devic...

Robert Scheer

Student Debts, Stunted Lives

As Congress jacks up the rates students and their parents are paying for college loans, the consequences are already being felt by young people whose ability to have a child or own...

Nicholas von Hoffman

Democrats: When the War Was Lost

It's no surprise to learn that oil companies are underpaying royalties for drilling on public land, or projecting profits in the billions. The battle for energy regulation was lost...

Alexander Cockburn

George Bush’s Approval Rating Sinks to 34 Percent

Calvin Trillin

Letters

LIBERALS, LIBERALS EVERYWHERE

Washington, DC

In his March 6 "Liberal Media" column, titled " Eric Alterman and Our Readers and Max Blumenthal

Feature

The Bolton Archipelago

John Bolton's grandstanding vote today opposing the establishment of a UN Human Rights Council might please hard-core isolationists. But no one else.

Ian Williams

Bloggers Join Fray on Political Ads

As the House considers two bills to regulate political speech on the Internet, the liberal Daily Kos and conservative Red State blogs are bedfellows, supporting a flawed GOP-sponso...

Celia Viggo Wexler

Typecast as a Terrorist

The detainment of two actors from The Road to Guantánamo reveals a legal apparatus that is no longer able to distinguish between real and invented threats.

Adam Federman

Can You Say ‘Permanent Bases’?

Despite recent press visits, the building of bases in Iraq has not come under much scrutiny. If Congress and opposition Democrats continue to ignore the issue, there will be no wit...

Tom Engelhardt

The Democrats: Still Ducking

Eight months ahead of the 2006 midterm vote, Democrats are either ignoring Iraq or supporting the war while criticizing Bush's prosecution of it. But it's not too late to mount a s...

Ari Berman

Lap Dogs of the Press

During the run-up to the Iraq War, the nation's leading print and broadcast media could have saved lives if they questioned the Administration's pronouncements. Instead, they were ...

Helen Thomas

Afghanistan: The Other War

Despite Bush's feel-good rhetoric, the United States has done little to help Afghanistan, leaving the impression of abandonment. Meanwhile, European troops work hard to build bridg...

Christian Parenti