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October 22, 2007 Issue

The Editors on Dennis Kucinich, Mark Hertsgaard on the environment, Alexander Cockburn on spineless lawmakers.

Cover art by: Cover photograph by Greenpeace/Philip Reynaers, design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels

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Editorial

We Need a Nobel Prize in Law

Those who serve the law in dangerous and original ways are deserving of the recognition--and the protection--that a Nobel Prize would bring them.

Garrett Epps

Getting Real About China

From product safety to piracy, human rights and the Olympic Games, isn't it time we started being realistic about the way we treat China?

Jeffrey Wasserstrom

John Templeton’s Universe

The right-wing philanthropist is pushing the phony science of positive psychology to numb Americans into smiley-faced acquiescence to the status quo.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Strange Culture

Federal authorities are prosecuting Steve Kurtz under the Patriot Act for using harmless bacteria in his artwork. A new film examines his ordeal.

Patricia J. Williams

Leave Us Alone

How do presidential candidates propose to protect our privacy?

Ryan Thoreson

Noted.

The mainstream media's smear campaign against Mohamed ElBaradei, John Nichols on former NEA chair John Frohnmayer, Peter C. Baker on presidential Facebooks, and more.

The Editors

Blackwatergate

Blackwater USA's Erik Prince and his State Department enablers have a lot of explaining to do.

Jeremy Scahill

Let Dennis Debate

Kucinich may be too idealistic to be a presidential contender, but his voice needs to be heard.

The Editors

Column

The Martyrdom of Che Guevara

The CIA's role in his assassination managed to turn a failed--and flawed--guerrilla fighter into an enduring symbol of resistance to oppression.

Robert Scheer

Bonehead U

Forget about raising money for actual teaching or research. Institutions of higher learning would rather troll for money for their sports teams.

Nicholas von Hoffman

GOP No Longer Acknowledging Existence of Non-Caucasians

Ward Sutton

How Different Are the Top Three Dems?

Clinton, Edwards, Obama: behind the branding, they're more similar than you think.

Katha Pollitt

Toothless in Babylon

In the gray dawn of the twenty-first century, only a handful of lawmakers dare to stand up and be counted on matters of war and peace.

Alexander Cockburn

A Slightly Insincere Expression of Regret That Newt Gingrich Has Decided Not to Enter the Republican Presidential Primary

Calvin Trillin

Letters

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Feature

No Child Left Alive

Is there an Army recruiter in your future?

Daniel Mootz

Why We Act

We need a President willing to choose morality over hyper-Americanism.

Ketan Ramakrishnan

How the Military Can Stop an Iran Attack

Peace activists are reaching out to US military officials to dampen the Bush Administration's ardor for attacking Iran.

Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith

Season of Scandals

Sportswriters hyperventilate over scandals big and small. But when a football hero and Bush critic is shot three times at close range in Afghanistan, by friendly fire, why does no ...

Robert Lipsyte

Corporations Versus Democracy

How can we curtail corporate power?

Ned Resnikoff

A Different Sort of War on Terror

How can Americans become more generous?

Jason Kaye

The Reality of Poverty

Poverty in America is a moral issue.

Alyssa Katharine Ritz Battistoni

Rudy Admits Cellphone Addiction

His campaign slogan--"As I Was Saying, You Have My Undivided Attention"--is playing well with voters in areas where cell phone coverage is erratic.

Eric Kenning

The Secret State of Torture

After professing to abhor torture, the Bush Justice Department secretly authorized it. And the consequences for us all are grave.

Tom Hayden

South Africa’s Winter of Discontent

As the gap widens between rich and poor, millions of black workers are challenging African National Congress rule. How did a victory against apartheid turn into class war?

William Johnson

We Count, They Don’t

The Bush Administration once professed there were no body counts in its war on terror. But in the metrics-driven post-surge accounting in Iraq, it turns out it's been counting ever...

Tom Engelhardt