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Hillary’s Nasty Pastorate

When it comes to unsavory religious affiliations, Hillary Clinton is a lot more vulnerable than Obama.

Barbara Ehrenreich

China’s Olympic Delusion

Cracking down once again in Tibet, China seeks to control the script on its flawed human rights record, yet still be regarded as a suitable host for the Olympics. Dream on.

Jeffrey Wasserstrom

Blackwater Seeps Into the Campaign

Clinton and Obama each have nuanced plans to ban private security firms from Iraq. The difference is how they’re spinning them.

Jeremy Scahill

Obama, Politics and the Pulpit

The uproar over intemperate remarks by Obama’s former pastor reveals all that’s repellant in our national discourse over race, religion and politics.

Chris Hayes

The Experts Speak on Iraq

To mark the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War, some daily inspiration from the experts who led us there.

Victor Navasky and Christopher Cerf

Tracing Slavery’s Past

On the bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade, a documentarian tries to come to grips with her family’s history in the trade.

Te-Ping Chen

Daydreaming and I’m Thinking of You

This week’s episode of Citizen Kang: The Congresswoman’s chief of staff gets shot at and Kang lets her mind wander into dangerous territory.

Gary Phillips

Reviving Vietnam War Tactics

One of Gen. Petraeus’s top advisors advocates a return to the global Phoenix program used during the Vietnam War.

Tom Hayden

The War and the Working Class

Young people drawn into combat by the “economic draft” are being treated just as poorly as all the other workers in this neoliberal economy.

Michael Zweig

The Wages of Peace

Spending on the war in Iraq is a job killer. Ending the war would be the real stimulus package.

Robert Pollin and Heidi Garrett-Peltier

Who Said the War Would Pay for Itself? They Did!

Unwise words from the “experts” who promised a cost-free war.

Victor Navasky and Christopher Cerf

Class War (chart)

Who’s losing and who’s winning at home from the US occupation of Iraq?

The Nation

Iraq: The View from Year Six

In March 2009, no matter who is president, Iraq will still be hell on Earth.

Tom Engelhardt

Notes on a Scandal

The Spitzer affair’s obvious rationality continues to elude the therapists, sexperts and pundits for whom shame is the game.

JoAnn Wypijewski

Smearing Obama

False claims about Obama intended to stoke racial and religious fear are trickling from the far right to the mainstream media.

Ari Berman

Border Death Backstory

The trial for the murder of undocumented immigrant Francisco Javier Domínguez stripped him of his humanity. The retrial must not make the same mistake.

Debbie Nathan

A Sea-Change Election?

The 2008 presidential election could signal the most dramatic political shift since Reagan.

Robert L. Borosage

Time for a Revote

Holding Democratic primaries in Florida and Michigan a second time would send the message that Americans do not need to accept illegitimate elections.

John Nichols

The Torture Veto

Bush has made history by being the first American President to use his veto power to preserve torture.

David Cole

Noted.

PEACE SIGNS: Dusting off an old Clintonian catchphrase, United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) has found a new way to sum up the connection between the war in Iraq and the econom

The Editors

It’s the War Economy, Stupid!

Among the major causes of the current economic crisis is the staggering cost of the war in Iraq.

The Editors

Carrying a Torch for Tibet

Protest is as much a part of the Olympic tradition as lighting the torch.

Dave Zirin

The Idiot’s Grin

Presiding over a disastrous war and an unconscionable taxpayer bailout of Wall Street, why is George W. Bush still smiling?

Robert Scheer

Economic Chaos, Political Consequences

As the federal bailout of the banking industry continues, is it too much to ask that McCain, Clinton and Obama abandon their blue-sky promises and address reality?

Nicholas von Hoffman

John Q. Public

Just once it would be nice to see a male politician caught in a sex scandal stand up there at a press conference all by himself.

Katha Pollitt

The Spitzer Sting

Was there a medium-sized right-wing conspiracy to nail Eliot Spitzer?

Alexander Cockburn

Modern Gods

Peter Kuper

Democrats Bid a Fond Farewell to Mike Huckabee

Saying goodbye to the Republicans’ funniest candidate.

Calvin Trillin

The Experts Speak on Iraq

To mark the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War, some daily inspiration from the experts who led us there.

Victor Navasky and Christopher Cerf

Final Fantasy

Susan Faludi’s Terror Dream made a provocative splash, but therapy is no substitute for understanding reality.

David Waldstreicher

Tracing Slavery’s Past

On the bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade, a documentarian tries to come to grips with her family’s history in the trade.

Te-Ping Chen

Un Lio Bestial

In his poetry Roberto Bolaño gave himself over to the subversive, to antiheroes, ballad and saga.

Forrest Gander

Windows Into the Night

The collected nonfiction of Roberto Bolaño is a treasure trove filled with straw and dust, jewels and gold.

Marcela Valdes

A Garden of Monsters

The imaginary fascists in Roberto Bolaño’s ironic encyclopedia Nazi Literature in the Americas bear a complex relationship to reality.

Carmen Boullosa

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