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October 29, 2007 Issue
The Editors on five years of war, Patricia J. Williams on art and politics, David Schiff on listening to the 20th century.
Cover art by: Cover art by Steve Brodner, design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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Editorial
The quinceañera has become a rite of passage for even the poorest Latina teens, another example of our most treasured rites debased at the cash register.
Lakshmi Chaudhry
The Democrats appear to be anti-Iraq War. But they surely are not acting like opponents of imperial overreach.
Stanley I. Kutler
A longtime activist, running in a special City Council election, is just what New Orleans needs.
Adolph Reed Jr.
As Turkey ramps up its outrage against a House committee vote to affirm the Armenian genocide, is anyone applauding our lawmakers' act of moral courage?
Nicole Vartanian
The winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature is every bit as political as her predecessors.
Dan Kellum
Hillary Clinton has recognized the value of courting antiwar voters.
John Nichols
Across the political spectrum in Iraq, a nationalistic bloc is emerging to challenge the Kurdish and Shiite separatists who have held sway under US tutelage.
Bob Dreyfuss
Giuliani in Philadelphia, an obituary for Haldar Abdel-Shafi, an apology from Jon Stewart and more.
The Editors
Worried about toxic toys from China? Worry, too, about Chinese workers exposed to the poisons.
Andrew Ross
The path back to sanity begins by repealing the Kyl-Lieberman amendment and prohibiting military action in Iran without Congressional approval.
The Editors
Column
Dear Congressional Democrats: Here's a funny story about what it's like to have a really sick kid, even if you do have insurance.
Annabelle Gurwitch
The sports establishment is shocked, shocked at her steroid-fueled Olympic wins. But didn't they also play a role?
Dave Zirin
The House Foreign Affairs Committee bravely declares the 1915 slaughter of Armenians in Turkey genocide. Why not put the same label on themselves, for their role in the Iraq catast...
Nicholas von Hoffman
An increasingly bookless universe has become the wasteland so many have feared. In a perfect world, we'd have more Ken Burnses expressing a multiplicity of views.
Eric Alterman
If the stuff of life is corporatized, does art about it become a form of interference in business?
Patricia J. Williams
Letters
Readers pick a few nits about Katha Pollitt's column on poverty and heap praise on Bob Moser's reporting about the "Ditch Mitch" McConnell movement in Kentucky.
Our Readers
Feature
As a gay rights bill moved through Congress, some prominent Democrats tried to exclude protections for transgenders. The LGBT community revolted.
Christopher Lisotta
Elizabeth Holtzman, Nan Aron, Stephen Gillers, Victor Navasky and others quiz the Attorney General nominee on torture, the Constitution and the fate of Alberto Gonzales.
The Nation
Latino voters will go to the polls in 2008 with a hemispheric vision, a new sense of power and concerned about Iraq, immigration and the environment.
Roberto Lovato
A legal drama is unfolding in Washington State over whether an Army officer who
refuses to serve in Iraq has the same Constitutional rights as the rest of us.
Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith
As scenarios on the impact of global warming worsen, Senate Democrats are poised to abandon a realistic bill and support a deeply flawed measure that doesn't solve the problem.
Mark Hertsgaard
Blackwater USA now faces wrongful death suits in US court brought by survivors of three Iraqi civilians killed in the September 16 Baghdad shootings.
Jeremy Scahill
The Paris Principle: politics are sooo hot.
Stephen Duncombe
The sick man of Europe gets a jolt of life, but will it last?
Richard Falk
Giuliani's conservative kingmaker knows all about the ugly side of Third World debt. He invented it.
Ari Berman
A closer look at the Texas energy interests fueling the former New York mayor's presidential campaign.
Ari Berman
Books & the Arts
The quinceañera has become a rite of passage for even the poorest Latina teens, another example of our most treasured rites debased at the cash register.
Lakshmi Chaudhry
Driven by a tabloid episode from her own marriage, the novelist joins the debate over the mass marketing of trashy books to young black readers.
Amy Alexander
The British rockers stick a fork in the recording industry by offering downloads of a new album for whatever fans want to pay. Oh, the anguish.
Peter C. Baker
According to Chalmers Johnson, Bush's imperial presidency may be the final chapter in the collapse of American democracy.
Stephen Holmes
The history of twentieth-century music charts the rise of modern masters like Duke Ellington and John Adams.
David Schiff
The Paris Principle: politics are sooo hot.
Stephen Duncombe
An increasingly bookless universe has become the wasteland so many have feared. In a perfect world, we'd have more Ken Burnses expressing a multiplicity of views.
Eric Alterman
If the stuff of life is corporatized, does art about it become a form of interference in business?
Patricia J. Williams
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