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Features
By Paul Wellstone
October 26, 2002

Building a Citizen Politics

Remembering Paul Wellstone We mourn the passing of Sen. Paul Wellstone and his wife, Sheila. Americans have lost… more

Bush Apologistas

In the past couple of months, as the Bush administration flogs its plans for war against Saddam Hussein,… more

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News
By Eleanor J. Bader
October 25, 2002

Thought Police

Big Brother may be watching what you read

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Culture
By G. Pascal Zachary
October 25, 2002

Let’s Make a Movie

The stout government minister, himself an actor in his youth for the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, stood before a… more

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Culture
By Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa
October 25, 2002

Iran Behind the Screen

Women and cinema are controversial, problematic and significant topics in modern Iran, a nation that benefits from an… more

Home Care Hardship

SEIU lobbies for raises in Illinois

Election Daze

The Help America Vote Act may do just the opposite

Under the Gun

Here in Fredericksburg, Virginia, amid the fear and anger over the sniper rampage, one topic has been largely… more

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Culture
By Joshua Rothkopf
October 25, 2002

The Big Picture

So it looks like the movies made it. Made it through the “death of irony” we heard so… more

Justice in Guatemala

The historic conviction on October 3 of a former Guatemalan military officer, Col. Juan Valencia, for the 1990… more

Spirited Away

With a little help from a rotund forest spirit, a teen-age witch and the odd flying pig, Hayao… more

Cycle of Violence

Battered women who kill their abusers are being jailed

Murder in Chiapas

Low-intensity conflict continues

What’s Up on the Docks?

Bush turns to Taft-Hartley to battle the country's most militant union

Carte Blanche

Congress capitulates to Bush’s call for war

New Blood

Can a moment of anti-war anger become an effective new political movement?

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Culture
By Joshua Rothkopf
October 11, 2002

Arms and the Cameraman

Readers of these pages need no introduction to Michael Moore, nor will they require any acrobatics on my… more

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Culture
By Kristie Reilly
October 11, 2002

Not a Drop to Drink

The statistics are startling, even a bit panic-inducing. Around the world today, more than 1 billion people have… more

They Doth Protest Too Much

An incredibly successful protest took place September 22. Activists around the country attracted attention to the unjust actions… more

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Views
By David Graeber
October 11, 2002

When Police Attack

I spent 15 hours handcuffed on a bus with 44 other people, all charged with a crime that… more

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News
By Adam Porter
August 2, 2002

Secret History?

Overseas documentary alleges war crimes in Afghanistan.

Marcos’ Missing Millions

Corporate corruption scandals roil the United States, dragging down with them the reputations of the major accounting firms… more

War or Peace?

Colombia's new president must choose between Washington and his own people.

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Features
By David Moberg
August 2, 2002

Cheap Hotels

Labor takes on Chicago's hospitality industry.

I See Green People

Signs is about Earth’s infestation by claw-fingered aliens, but its scenes of a rural Pennsylvanian household stunned in… more

Historyshock

Kim Stanley Robinson is that rarest phenomenon of fiction, the keen stylist who understands at once hard science,… more

Bad to Worse

Welfare reform is up for reauthorization, but it's only going to get meaner

Minority Reporter

Award-winning investigative journalist Greg Palast spent the past five years in London reporting for both the Guardian and… more

To the Extreme

A new Russian law shuts down Kremlin opposition.

Clinic Crisis

Thanks to federal funding, anti-choice “pregnancy centers” are on the rise.

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Features
By Frederick Clarkson
July 19, 2002

Doing the Reich Thing

The former labor secretary makes a bid for the Massachusetts governor's mansion.

The Incumbent-Protection Racket

Voters, beware. Redistricting, the once-a-decade swindle whereby incumbent politicians redraw the lines of their own legislative districts to… more

Third Time’s the Challenge

Targeted by the White House, Paul Wellstone may face his toughest race yet.

A Few Good Candidates

From likely winners to long shots, here are 10 to watch in 2002.

Dithering Democrats

The November forecast looks gloomy.

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Culture
By G. Pascal Zachary
July 19, 2002

Living the Highlife

To watch U2 singer Bono traveling around Africa, relentlessly advocating for debt relief alongside the secretary of the… more

The lack of women in high-level government positions is one of the most glaring, yet least talked about, problems facing women today. In the past four decades, women have entered politics in significant numbers.

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Culture
By Ana Marie Cox
June 21, 2002

Dos and Don’ts on the Campaign Trail

With more women in elective office than ever before, running as a female candidate is no longer as difficult as it was. That doesn't mean it's easy.

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Culture
By Joshua Rothkopf
June 21, 2002

Love Is a Battlefield

With its deep bows to Monument Valley and other distant frontiers, its choked-off military men struggling with codes… more

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Views
By Doug Ireland
June 21, 2002

Homeland Insecurity

George W. Bush’s proposal for a new, mammoth Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is nothing more than an… more

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News
By Geov Parrish
June 21, 2002

American Gulag

Hundreds of 9/11 detainees remain behind bars, shrouded in secrecy.

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News
By Christine Keyser
June 21, 2002

FBI on Trial

Jury awards $4.4 million to a pair of Earth First! activists.

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News
By Christine Keyser
June 21, 2002

FBI on Trial

Jury awards $4.4 million to a pair of Earth First! activists.

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Features
By Amitabh Pal
June 7, 2002

Back to the Brink

India and Pakistan talk tough.

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Features
By Doug Ireland
June 7, 2002

‘New’ FBI, Same Old Problems

What do you do with a federal agency of notorious incompetence that is also famous for regularly trampling… more

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Views
By G. Pascal Zachary
June 7, 2002

FBI Goodbye

Give defense a chance. Why not use this as a rallying cry for progressives?

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Culture
By Joe Knowles
June 7, 2002

Popcorn and Sake

In Hirokazu Kore’eda’s 1998 film After Life, the dead discover that there is no heaven or hell, only… more

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Views
By Ana Marie Cox
May 24, 2002

The Savings and Clone Scandal

Debate over the Senate’s two competing cloning bills—one that would ban all cloning and one that would allow… more

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News
By Kelly Candaele
May 24, 2002

Feeling Fein

Elections in a changing Ireland

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Features
By Doug Ireland
May 24, 2002

Pim’s Misfortune

Only in death did this Dutch dandy become a darling of American conservatives.

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