February 7, 2005
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Feature
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Iraq: The Chaos Deepens
As elections near, guerrillas are conducting their own “shock and awe” campaign.
David Enders
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Editorial
Letter From Ground Zero
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Jonathan Schell
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Party Cannibals
In December the leaders of the Democratic Leadership Council, Al From and Bruce Reed, published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about what the Democrats had to do to attract heartland
Rick Perlstein
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Babushkas vs. Putin
In February 1917 bread riots, led by women, many of them elderly, broke out in the center of St. Petersburg.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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Iraq’s Lost Election
In the run-up to the January 30 election in Iraq, the prospects for a fair and credible outcome have steadily diminished.
The Editors
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The Inaugural on $250,000 a Day
How the upper one-one-hundredth of 1 percent does politics.
Micah L. Sifry
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Column
1600 Pennsylvania Meets Madison Ave.
As a political marketing device, Bush’s address was brilliant.
Robert Scheer
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Jesus to the Rescue?
Can a dose of Christianity stiffen the Democrats’ spine, win back Kansas and bring people power to the anemic left?
Katha Pollitt
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Harry’s Travails
Imagine, in the same month as the death of the muse of high camp, Susan Sontag, we have England in an uproar about Prince Harry and his silly armband.
Alexander Cockburn
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On the Confirmation of Condoleezza (‘Mushroom Cloud’) Rice as Secretary of State
The mushroom-shaped cloud Condi spun
As being the next smoking gun
Was hooey invented to show
Attacking Iraq’s apropos.Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
1600 Pennsylvania Meets Madison Ave.
As a political marketing device, Bush’s address was brilliant.
Robert Scheer
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Blood Simple
Half a century has passed since Manny Farber wrote in these pages about underground films, by which he meant the urban crime movies watched by male loiterers near the Greyhound station, in theate
Stuart Klawans
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Men in Dark Times
“I am very happy to see so many flowers here and that is why I want to remind you that flowers, by themselves, have no power whatsoever, other than the power of men and women who protect them and
Russell Jacoby
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In the Penal Colony
Alberto Gonzales’s nomination to succeed John Ashcroft as Attorney General put the Abu Ghraib torture scandal back on the front pages, since he was directly implicated, as White House counsel, in
Lisa Hajjar
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Letters
On Scheer, Krassner & Ackerman
IS AL QAEDA JUST A BUSH BOOGEYMAN?
by Robert ScheerBellingham, Wa.
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