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Feature
Why Is Obama Still Using Blackwater?
Two years to the day after the Nisour Square massacre, Blackwater remains in Iraq, armed and dangerous.
Jeremy Scahill
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The Right’s Fringe Festival
The racist, antigay, pro-gun, antichoice, Christian nationalist march on Washington that conservatives don’t want you to see.
Sebastian Jones
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Legislation Watch: Fighting Hunger in Schools
As the economy continues to hemorrhage jobs, Congressman Keith Ellison of Minnesota is introducing legislation to increase eligibility for free school lunches.
Greg Kaufmann
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Three R’s and a Why
Civics education in schools creates young people who turn into the citizens that our democracy requires.
Andrea Batista Schlesinger
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Harry Reid: Investigate Iraq Electrocutions
The Senate majority leader calls on Gates and Clinton to find out if shoddy electrical work by contractors killed Adam Hermanson.
Jeremy Scahill
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Scientific Integrity Lost on America’s Parks
Though Ken Salazar has vowed to clean up the mess at the Interior Department, his selection for director of the National Park Service, Jon Jarvis, only compounds it.
Tess Elliott
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Factoring People Into Climate Change
More and more experts now say that climate change and population increase should be viewed together. Local politicians in developing countries often try to heat up the issue.
Barbara Crossette
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EPA Turns the Lights on Mountaintop Removal
An important announcement suggests that environmental justice may be coming to the Appalachian coalfields.
Jeff Biggers
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Palestine’s Peaceful Struggle
The growing nonviolent mass movement against Israel’s annexation wall is now meeting with stepped-up–and lethal–repression.
Mohammed Khatib
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The Death of Adam Hermanson
The family of a military contractor electrocuted in Baghdad is alleging his employer, Triple Canopy misled them about how he died.
Jeremy Scahill
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Obama’s CIA-on-Campus Program
Shrouded in secrecy, “intelligence officer training” conflicts with universities’ commitment to openness and free inquiry.
Jon Wiener
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The American Leviathan
The Pentagon has all but eclipsed the State Department in setting US foreign policy.
Stephen Glain
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People, Let’s Get Our Carbon Down
From soul to hip-hop: the new environmental movement has a street beat.
Bill McKibben and Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr.
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The New Domestic Order
Passage of a “Bill of Rights” in New York would be a promising win for a growing movement.
Lizzy Ratner
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Editorial
How 9/11 Should Be Remembered
For the eighth anniversary of September 11, 2001, a full-scale reappraisal of the real meaning of that day in New York for ordinary Americans.
Rebecca Solnit
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Sexual Healing
“Female sexual dysfunction” is a case in point of a runaway medical system that requires huge profits, hence new sicknesses, pills and procedures.
JoAnn Wypijewski
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For Competitive Primaries
Yes, primaries can be divisive and expensive. But the Democratic Party is usually at its best when it trusts grassroots activists and voters to make choices.
John Nichols
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The Ambush of Van Jones
It’s bizarre and more than a little infuriating that a champion of social justice has become the latest right-wing bogeyman.
The Editors
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Tackling the Titans
If Obama leads, the people will rally to his side. A good way to remind voters of the bold change they voted for last fall: ordering a hard cap on executive pay.
The Editors
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Column
Obama’s Presidency Isn’t Too Big to Fail
A president has only so much capital to expend, and Barack Obama is dangerously overdrawn.
Robert Scheer
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Double Standard for Serena Williams
Why is Roger Federer’s on-the-court meltdown acceptable while Serena Williams’s outburst is cause for a national apology tour?
Dave Zirin
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Stop the Sex Scare in Sports
The salacious sports media and the puritanical zealots that run international track and field have joined forces to hit a new low.
Dave Zirin and Sherry Wolf
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A Method to Their Madness
It takes considerable skill to convince people that something that is clearly good for them–like universal healthcare–is not.
Gary Younge
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The Tel Aviv Party Stops Here
The glittering “spotlight” at a Toronto film festival is a reflection of Israel’s desire to avoid scrutiny for its actions in Gaza.
Naomi Klein
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Harvard, Heal Thyself (Why Journalism Matters)
A monthlong investigation finds plenty of fire to go with the smoke surrounding the university’s incredibly vague conflict-of-interest policies.
Eric Alterman
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Books & the Arts
Right On
Traditionalists are at war with free-marketers, and the far right’s resentment is deepening. Is conservatism dead?
Kim Phillips-Fein
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Speak as Little as Possible: On Clarice Lispector
Novelist Clarice Lispector idealized animals and idiots because they were free of the desire to translate experience into words.
Rachel Aviv
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The Tel Aviv Party Stops Here
The glittering “spotlight” at a Toronto film festival is a reflection of Israel’s desire to avoid scrutiny for its actions in Gaza.
Naomi Klein
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People, Let’s Get Our Carbon Down
From soul to hip-hop: the new environmental movement has a street beat.
Bill McKibben and Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr.
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Letters
The Gates Foundation and Africa’s Hunger
We hear from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation regarding our September 21 “Ending Africa’s Hunger,” and our authors reply.
Raj Patel, Eric Holt-Gimenez, Annie Shattuck and Mark Suzman
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