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September 18, 2006 Issue
Adolph Reed Jr. looks at neoliberalism’s impact on New Orleans, Philip Weiss examines Israel’s human rights record, John Feffer…
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Editorial
Through lies, ineptitude and immoral policies, the Bush Administration
has led the nation to the brink of disaster, ruined our reputation and
sowed hatred that will take generation...
Ross C. Anderson
If it becomes a national model, a new, highly touted health insurance
law in Massachusetts would make American healthcare, already on life
support, take a turn for the worse.
Trudy Lieberman
Journalist, activist, philanthropist and self-promoter, Tavis Smiley has the political clout and the ability to energize and educate the black community in the best tradition of Ma...
Amy Alexander
The Human Rights Watch reports that were sharply critical of Israel's killing of
civilians in Lebanon represent the latest battle for Jewish hearts
and minds in the ideological war...
Philip Weiss
Key primary races in Maryland, Rhode Island and even New York are
making the Iraq War what it should be in every 2006 political contest:
the central issue.
John Nichols
Great tragedies call for visionary leadership. This is the moment for
progressives to summon the guts to forge a compelling message not just
about what's come apart in America, but...
The Editors
Column
If you're depending on private savings accounts to get you through retirement, get ready for a bitter surprise, thanks to the crooks and incompetents charged with selling and runni...
Nicholas von Hoffman
In Bush-liberated Afghanistan, billions in drug profits are financing the Taliban, proving the President is better at starting wars than winning them.
Robert Scheer
Democracy demands that journalists tell the truth. The success of liars
like Bob Novak and Ann Coulter is a greater threat to America than a
truck full of terrorists bent on doing ...
Eric Alterman
Feature
The confirmation of Felipe Calderón's electoral victory signals
the end of Andrés Manuel López Obrador's three-year
struggle for the presidency and the beginn...
John Ross
Valerie Plame was no mere analyst or paper-pusher at the CIA. She was an operations officer working on a top priority of the Bush Administration: searching out intelligence on Iraq...
David Corn
The 109th Congress, led by Republican
Senators McCain, Warner, and Graham and with the acquiescence of many
Democrats, is poised to legalize torture, trials with secret evidence,
...
Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith
Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson's cachet is growing in the wake of a stem-winding speech in which he called the President to account for lies and ineptitude in Irag, castigated...
Sasha Abramsky
Before the storm, neoliberalism shaped the social and economic
inequities of New Orleans; after Hurricane Katrina, it worsened them
by making government the tool of corporations an...
Adolph Reed Jr.
After the storm hit, the Internet was one of the few reliable sources
of information for New Orleans. A year later, it remains a critical
tool for citizens' participation in their ...
Michael Tisserand
Activists and residents are struggling to protect New Orleans's
devastated low-income neighborhoods from developers' vision of a
"smaller footprint" for the city.
Chris Kromm
One year later, how will we come to terms with what happened when Hurricane Katrina washed up the disenfranchised most people, including the President, have tried to forget?
Gary Younge
As New Orleans rebuilds, so does its Internet community. Here's a list
of the Big Easy's liveliest sites.
Michael Tisserand
Books & the Arts
Egypt has been deprived of its greatest living writer, and the world has
lost one of its most humane literary figures.
Laila Lalami
Three new books on China invite the West to give up simplistic dreams
and nightmares and come to terms with a complex and rapidly evolving
authoritarian state.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Nathaniel Mackey's most recent collection of subtle, intricate poetry
weaves images from Arab and African diasporas with a contemporary sense
of dislocation.
John Palattella
In Tango: The Art History of Love, Robert Thompson traces the dance's
roots in Afro-Argentine history. Tomas Eloy Martínez's The Tango
Singer appropriates its ...
Marina Harss
Two beggars
sharing a meal of the food they've been given
The new moon shines intensely
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The Nation
Four new books explore Korea's cold war hangover and the indelible mark
left by its North-South division.
John Feffer
Journalist, activist, philanthropist and self-promoter, Tavis Smiley has the political clout and the ability to energize and educate the black community in the best tradition of Ma...
Amy Alexander
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