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November 12, 2007 Issue
Sharon Lerner on childcare, Sharon Posner on values voters, Laila Lalami on Zakes Mda.
Cover art by: Cover by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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Editorial
Will spec factory jobs be the next stage in US economic development?
Annabelle Gurwitch
A network of right-wing activists on college and high school campuses are targeting Muslims, Arabs and other Mideast experts, indifferent to the truth or decency of their charges.
Larry Cohler-Esses
Dennis Hastert's Obama problem, California burning, Commentary old and new.
The Editors
The Christian right is embroiled in an internal culture war, pitting true believers against pragmatists looking for a candidate to satisfy the antitax and neoconservative wings of ...
Sarah Posner
If FCC chairman Kevin Martin prevails, Americans will be stuck with one-size-fits-all media and a downsized democracy.
The Editors
Column
What a boondoggle 9/11 has been for the merchants of war.
Robert Scheer
As the superrich get richer, the rest of us sink deeper into debt. But when American consumers can no longer consume, our whole system falls apart.
Nicholas von Hoffman
In the struggle over the ownership of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, black history is on sale at bargain prices.
Gary Younge
Consider the plight of the embattled liberal hawks and their lonely struggle to discredit the left.
Eric Alterman
Letters
The Army Surgeon General and Joshua Kors discuss caring for wounded soldiers.
Our Readers and Joshua Kors
Feature
As the eighteenth annual demonstration against the Army's School of the Americas nears, we quiz Democratic hopefuls on whether they would shut it down. Their answers are not encour...
Patrick Mulvaney
She alone can mobilize Pakistan's poor with promises of democracy, development and free, fair elections. But does she have the power to ward off US meddling and stop Pakistan's sli...
Graham Usher
Some herald the election of an Indian-American Republican governor as a milestone, but the poor and black citizens of Louisiana aren't among them.
Billy Sothern
Undocumented immigrants who have survived for years living along San Diego's hillsides and canyons now find themselves left out of relief efforts in the Southern California fires.
Amanda Martinez
David Horowitz's Islamofascism Awareness Week hits the already beleaguered campus.
Esther Kaplan
Would a vastly expanded guest worker program benefit illegal immigrants? Just ask a guest worker.
Deepa Fernandes
If the Buddhist sangha and the military are the two dominant forces in the suffering society of Burma, could monks and dissident soldiers join forces to rise up against an oppressi...
Charles London
All the warmongering that's fit to print.
Jim Sleeper
As peace talks open between rebels and the government in Darfur, the question is: who speaks for whom?
Shane Bauer
President Bush's neglect of government-sponsored childcare programs has a steep price. Children are paying.
Sharon Lerner
Welcome to the Age of Insuffiency: As oil prices hit new highs and supplies sink, our way of life will drastically change.
Michael T. Klare
A web-savvy form of conservative propaganda, written anonymously and forwarded via e-mail, is altering the political landscape.
Chris Hayes
Books & the Arts
The life and legacy of a fiery New York teachers' advocate gets caught in the crossfire of a changing liberal landscape.
Thomas J. Sugrue
Ben Ratliff's not-quite biography of John Coltrane considers the jazz legend's enduring influence.
Travis A. Jackson
In South African writer Zakes Mda's fiction, the past hovers like a ghost--seductive and terrifying.
Laila Lalami
In the struggle over the ownership of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, black history is on sale at bargain prices.
Gary Younge
Gone's the imposter. And gone's
his gawky cross. Gone's
his tweaked legacy's hit list--Hooray!--
and gone's his waste of song.
Graham Foust
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