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October 5, 2009 Issue
Karen Rothmyer on the 1960 African "airlift" to America, John Nichols on the G-20 summit, and Calvin Trillin on the anniversary of…
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Editorial
The 1960 "airlift" of 800 African students to study in the United States lent a crucial boost to John F. Kennedy's popularity among African-Americans.
Karen Rothmyer
The Ninth Circuit rules that John Ashcroft can be held accountable for the "paradigm of prevention" that led to unlawful detainment of a US citizen.
David Cole
At the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh, activists will push the United States to back proposals to regulate CEO compensation and require corporate responsibility.
John Nichols
Norwegians vote for "social-democratic paradise;" Rep. Joe Wilson's lie turns lucrative; why are all the taxpayers at the 9/12 march white?
The Editors
The Supreme Court is poised to overrule decisions restricting corporate speech in political campaigns.
The Editors
Column
President Obama should follow the model of the incredibly successful Reagan revolution and heed the political base that made his presidency possible.
Robert Scheer
An overwhelming majority of Chicagoans oppose spending any public money on the Olympics. But Obama is lining up with Mayor Daley in support of the Windy City's bid.
Dave Zirin
If women's equality is the cause of our time, we'll get further by acknowledging it's a challenge no country has fully met than by framing it as a Western crusade.
Katha Pollitt
"Birthers'" claims shift, but their essence is always the same: Barack Obama has no right to be president.
Alexander Cockburn
Feature
Climate change groups occupy a central place among G-20 protests in Pittsburgh.
Robert S. Eshelman
Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold suggests that he
will oppose more troops and funding for the war in Afghanistan if the
Obama adminstration doesn't present a cohesive exit strategy.
Tom Hayden
Even permitted demonstrators are subjected to unconstitutional search and seizure at the gathering of world leaders.
Robert S. Eshelman
This week's UN General Assembly session will be memorable not so much for what is said by the lineup of world leaders as for the sustained involvement of one of them: Barack Obama.
Barbara Crossette
In a surprise victory, Bulgarian diplomat Irina Bokova becomes the first female and first Eastern European head of Unesco.
Barbara Crossette
Whatever the debate in Washington, Congressional and military scenarios for training a vast Afghan Army will never come true.
Ann Jones
The United States is coming ever closer to a state that matches the Orwellian slogan from 1984: war is peace.
Tom Engelhardt
Americans deserve a government agency charged with fostering the pursuit of happiness.
Walter Mosley
We need to change the sorry frame of the debate over judges and the role the judicial system plays in our democracy.
Gara LaMarche
Do brothel raids help trafficking victims escape abuse, or skirt the reality that makes recovery so difficult for the "rescued?"
Noy Thrupkaew
Books & the Arts
The 1960 "airlift" of 800 African students to study in the United States lent a crucial boost to John F. Kennedy's popularity among African-Americans.
Karen Rothmyer
Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, Claire Denis's 35 Shots of Rum, Jane Campion's Bright Star
Stuart Klawans
How did Wal-Mart become so successful that its merciless economic model could threaten its own bottom line?
Jefferson Decker
Mercè Rodoreda's fiction plumbs a sadness borne of helplessness, an almost voluptuous vulnerability.
Natasha Wimmer
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