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Jews for Justice Jews for Justice

They call us "self-hating" Jews when we raise criticisms of Israeli policies. Yet most of those Jews who risk this calumny as the cost of getting involved actually feel a specia...

May 2, 2002 / Rabbi Michael Lerner

The Great Societizer The Great Societizer

Reading Robert Caro to learn about Lyndon Johnson is like going to an elaborate buffet in order to get the four basic food groups; they both give you what you need along with much...

May 2, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Philip A. Klinkner

Militants on the Steppes Militants on the Steppes

It was an early November morning when I met Gairam Muminov on the steps of a courthouse on the outskirts of Tashkent, the sprawling capital of Uzbekistan. He was leaning against a...

May 2, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Raffi Khatchadourian

In Fact… In Fact…

BUSH'S SHADE OF GREEN Chris Floyd writes: It's no mystery why the Bush Administration engineered the ouster of Robert Watson as chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel o...

May 2, 2002 / The Editors

More Accounting Tricks More Accounting Tricks

Since the fall of the House of Enron, Republicans have been polishing their populist patter. George W. Bush cast aside his patron, Enron CEO Ken "Kenny Boy" Lay, and proclaimed hi...

May 2, 2002 / The Editors

Gayness Becomes You Gayness Becomes You

Nearly fifty years ago, in Eros and Civilization, Herbert Marcuse suggested that homosexuals (then the current term) might someday--because of their "rebellion against the subjuga...

May 2, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Martin Duberman

Extreme Solutions Extreme Solutions

Extreme Solution I: Priests The old movies used to feature a priest walking alongside the condemned man toward the scaffold, offering last seconds of comfort, plea-barga...

May 2, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Supreme Court v. Unions Supreme Court v. Unions

The recent decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Hoffman Plastic Compounds, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board makes it plain that the Court's majority lives in denial...

May 2, 2002 / David Bacon

Bad Work Bad Work

Howard Gardner, the noted education/cognition specialist, recently undertook, with two colleagues, an in-depth study of the work-related happiness of two groups of people, gene...

May 2, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman

Aiming for a Conviction Aiming for a Conviction

Anyone looking for evidence that the death penalty should be abolished need only look at the case of Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called twentieth hijacker, now on trial for his lif...

May 2, 2002 / Feature / Dave Lindorff

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