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Feature
Pat Robertson’s Katrina Cash
Pat Robertson’s shadowy relief organization, Operation Blessing, is prominently featured on FEMA’s list of charities to receive donations for hurricane relief.
Max Blumenthal
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Kanye West, Unplugged
NBC took offense when Kanye West took an unscripted swipe at President Bush during a benefit concert for hurricane victims. But somebody had to say it.
Adam Howard
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Katrina and the Coming World Oil Crunch
Beyond the human suffering, Katrina’s sucker punch will be felt in America’s increasing dependence on foreign petroleum.
Michael T. Klare
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Living Like a Refugee
Not since the days of the Dust Bowl has America seen such a massive migration of refugees. Who becomes one of this tribe is a matter of race and class.
Michael Tisserand
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Failing Students, Rising Profits
The Community Education Partners (CEP) serves students the public schools don’t want–and it makes millions.
Annette Fuentes
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The One-Eyed Chairman
When the adulation fades, Alan Greenspan will be recognized as a right-wing ideologue and the most politicized Fed chairman in history.
William Greider
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Editorial
A Guide to Grassroots Charities
There’s abundant compassion but a great deal of confusion about the best places to send charitable donations to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Adam Howard
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Grassroots Charities Need Your Help
Progressive, grassroots charities on the Gulf Coast are poised to help hurricane victims. Here’s a list of groups that need your donations.
Katha Pollitt
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The Power of Outrage
A nation’s conscience is stirred by the abandonment of the poor and the frail: This may be the one bright spot of the man-made disaster on the Gulf Coast.
Eric Foner gives a history lesson.Eric Foner
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In Rehnquist’s Footsteps
The death of William Rehnquist, the nomination of John G. Roberts Jr. to replace him and the agony of New Orleans represent a sad symmetry of events.
Bruce Shapiro
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To Return and Rise Again
Louisiana’s poet laureate writes of the resolve of New Orleans’s displaced citizens to rebuild their shattered city.
Brenda Marie Osbey
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Honor Their Sacrifice
Mounting American casualties alone cannot turn us away from this ill-advised war. Democrats and anti-war advocates should let words and peaceful actions speak, instead of guns and corpses.
Jonathan Schell
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Messing With Mother Nature
Rush Limbaugh would should skip the juvenile hurricane jokes and summon up some genuine empathy for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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Spying on the Protesters
It’s déjà-vu all over again: National Guard units and federal, state and local law enforcement are spying on antiwar activists.
John S. Friedman
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Roberts, Without Illusions
As confirmation hearings open, we already know a great deal about John G. Roberts Jr. He’s ethically challenged, ideologically rigid and unfit for the Supreme Court.
The Editors
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Column
The Real Costs of a Culture of Greed
The affluent mask of the United States has been torn away by the storm, exposing a nation that has become progressively poorer under the leadership of the party of Big Business.
Robert Scheer
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Theocracy Lite
How can women be equal before Islamic law, according to which they are unequal?
Katha Pollitt
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Bush’s War: The Levees Are Giving Way
The Bush Administration is tongue-tied because it doesn’t know what lie to put out next.
Alexander Cockburn
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A Robertson Republican
Bush’s paean to his staunchest ally’s murderous impulses, with apologies to Gilbert & Sullivan.
Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
The Power of Outrage
A nation’s conscience is stirred by the abandonment of the poor and the frail: This may be the one bright spot of the man-made disaster on the Gulf Coast.
Eric Foner gives a history lesson.Eric Foner
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Kanye West, Unplugged
NBC took offense when Kanye West took an unscripted swipe at President Bush during a benefit concert for hurricane victims. But somebody had to say it.
Adam Howard
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To Return and Rise Again
Louisiana’s poet laureate writes of the resolve of New Orleans’s displaced citizens to rebuild their shattered city.
Brenda Marie Osbey
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Tramps Like Us
Thirty summers ago, Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run exploded the cynicism and complacency of a morally exhausted era and gave a new generation reason to believe in rock and roll.
Eric Alterman
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The American Sublime
Robert Smithson’s epic earthwork, Spiral Jetty tends to render critics speechless.
Arthur C. Danto
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Good Vibrations
Orgasms used to be a secret, then they became a right. Now they’re a duty. It’s time to explode the myths.
Cristina Nehring
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Requiem for a Dream
Daniel Fuchs’s The Golden West is best read as an author’s requiem for the Hollywood he loved.
David L. Ulin
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Optimism of the Will
The rich legacy of former Nation editor and activist Carey McWilliams is on full display in three books.
Mike Davis
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A Robertson Republican
Bush’s paean to his staunchest ally’s murderous impulses, with apologies to Gilbert & Sullivan.
Calvin Trillin
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Letters