November 29, 2010 Teaching Guide
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Feature
The Money & Media Election Complex
Unchecked by campaign finance regulation, unchallenged by a journalism sufficient to expose abuses, a nearly unbeatable force opposed progressives in 2010.
John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney
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The Post-Midterms Game Plan for Progressives
It’s time for us to go big, challenge the limits of the debate and organize from the outside in.
Katrina vanden Heuvel and Robert L. Borosage
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America’s Knowledge Deficit
We have increasingly substituted opinion and prejudice for science and reason.
Benjamin R. Barber
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What We Learned From WikiLeaks
Perhaps, once the United States recovers its moral bearings, it will be ready to recognize the bravery of Bradley Manning and Julian Assange.
Jonathan Schell
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Editorial
An Agenda for the Lame-Duck Congress
Democrats should respond to the election results by getting things done for the American people.
The Editors
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George W. Bush: Torturer-in-Chief
Bush has now publicly admitted to signing off on the CIA’s torture tactics. That seals the case against him.
David Cole
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Noted.
Liliana Segura on the sentencing of Oscar Grant’s killer, Kate Murphy on the achievement gap in public schools and Jennifer O’Mahoney on Oklahoma’s attempt to ban sharia law
Various Contributors
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Column
Russ Feingold for President
Obama doesn’t have the spine for the job. Russ Feingold does.
Alexander Cockburn
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Antichoicers on the March
Conservatives don’t really want to get rid of abortion rights? This next Congress, we might just find out.
Katha Pollitt
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Books & the Arts
America’s Knowledge Deficit
We have increasingly substituted opinion and prejudice for science and reason.
Benjamin R. Barber
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No Images of Man: On Nancy Spero
Nancy Spero began using only the female figure in her paintings to push back the limits of her world.
Barry Schwabsky
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The View From the Top Table: On Timothy Garton Ash
Timothy Garton Ash is a fine writer of "analytic reportage," but his work has lately displayed symptoms of columnitis.
Stefan Collini
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The Wild Desire to Leave: On Soviet Jewry
Gal Beckerman’s When They Come for Us We’ll Be Gone is an engaging account of the exodus of Jews from the Soviet Union.
Benjamin Nathans
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Letters
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Crossword