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November 30, 2009 Issue
Alexander Cockburn on Obama’s election anniversary, Calvin Trillin on Lieberman’s public option position, Ed Morales on Puerto R…
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Editorial
Goldman and the other big dogs of Wall Street are afflicted with the stink of greed, having harvested swollen fortunes from the calamity they caused for the rest of the country.
William Greider
Vigorously enforcing labor law and stopping the crackdown on the nation's undocumented immigrants can boost the American economy.
Amy Traub
There is an easy way to get unemployed workers back to work: pay them to work shorter hours.
Dean Baker
The combination of a four-year recession, a $3.2 billion deficit and a toxic Republican-style governor has turned Puerto Rico into a political powder keg.
Ed Morales
With enemies like Sarah Palin, who needs friends?
Richard Kim and Betsy Reed
"Tobin Tax" on the table; Palestinian Authority in peril; predictable Islamophobia after the Fort Hood shootings.
The Editors
The House's healthcare reform bill is a first draft of history; as with most first drafts, it has its share of flaws.
The Editors
Column
A Canadian judge allows the International Olympic Committee to trump Canadian equal rights law and keep women ski jumpers out of the Vancouver Olympics.
Dave Zirin
What's up with Barack Obama? Finally someone has a good idea about how to deal with Wall Street and the White House condemns it.
Robert Scheer
In Copenhagen, activists won't just say no--they will aggressively advance solutions that reduce emissions and narrow inequity.
Naomi Klein
Prochoicers have been taking one for the team for too long now. Enough already.
Katha Pollitt
Since the president took office, his administration has yielded one surrender after another.
Alexander Cockburn
Letters
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Grantsville, Md.
Our Readers
Feature
Clean-energy sectors, which hold the promise of being major engines of job growth, are creating opportunities for those communities hit hardest by the recession: low-income communi...
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins
"Mainstreaming" a focus on women into all of the United Nations' work never happened. So will an agency for women ever get off the ground?
Barbara Crossette
Why Sarah Palin can't be stopped from going nuclear inside the Republican Party.
Max Blumenthal
A small delegation from the Honduran resistance movement visiting the US last week drew attention to the human rights abuses of the coup government.
Tom Hayden
Americans want to know what went wrong during last year's economic meltdown. The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission will find the answers.
Greg Kaufmann
Will the Afghan and Iraq wars lead to a surveillance state here in the US?
Alfred W. McCoy
The victory over Lou Dobbs demonstrates that the immigrant community is mobilized like never before.
Roberto Lovato
Notorious political pranksters the Yes Men have made a career out of impersonating henchmen from major companies, including Exxon, Dow Chemical and McDonald's--and getting away wit...
Shakthi Jothianandan
Blue Dog Democrats are undermining prospects for financial-industry regulation and reform.
William Greider
We learned so much, at such cost, in Vietnam. Why must we learn it all again in Afghanistan?
Jonathan Schell
With Pentagon cash, contractors bribe insurgents not to attack supply lines for US troops
Aram Roston
Books & the Arts
In the stories of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, the landscape of the Russian revolution is hostile territory, and terrifying in its scope.
Elaine Blair
A conversation with the author of Ordinary Injustice about why the right to trial is no protection against a shoddy legal system.
Christine Smallwood
T.J. Stiles's The First Tycoon is a gilded portrait of the robber baron Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Steve Fraser
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