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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

All Trick, No Treat!

Will spec factory jobs be the next stage in US economic development?

Annabelle Gurwitch

The New McCarthyism

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

Noted.

Dennis Hastert's Obama problem, California burning, Commentary old and new.

The Editors

A Values Voters Schism

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

Stop the Media Grab

If FCC chairman Kevin Martin prevails, Americans will be stuck with one-size-fits-all media and a downsized democracy.

The Editors

Column

Cashing In on Terror

What a boondoggle 9/11 has been for the merchants of war.

Robert Scheer

Give Us This Day Our Daily Debt

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

Thieves of Black History

In the struggle over the ownership of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, black history is on sale at bargain prices.

Gary Younge

The Liberal Hawks’ Lament

Consider the plight of the embattled liberal hawks and their lonely struggle to discredit the left.

Eric Alterman

The Tao of Fred

Steve Brodner

Advise and Consent

Calvin Trillin

Letters

Exchange

The Army Surgeon General and Joshua Kors discuss caring for wounded soldiers.

Our Readers and Joshua Kors

Feature

SOA Protest Draws Scant Support From Candidates

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

Benazir Bhutto’s Defining Moment

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

Bobby Jindal: Not Much to Celebrate

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

Unseen Victims of California Fires

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

The Culture War Descends on Columbia

David Horowitz's Islamofascism Awareness Week hits the already beleaguered campus.

Esther Kaplan

Guest Workers in a Strange Land

Would a vastly expanded guest worker program benefit illegal immigrants? Just ask a guest worker.

Deepa Fernandes

Myanmar: Monks and the Military

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