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A Farewell to Arms?

Colombia’s new crisis

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Dissing Dubya

As you know, many of us are more outraged over this presidency than perhaps any other (which is saying… more

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Missing U.S.-Iraq History

With all the hoopla surrounding the capture of Saddam Hussein—“caught like a rat,” read the Chicago Tribune headline—it is… more

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The Candidates on George W. Bush

Bush bashing: It’s pointless, immature, detrimental to civil discourse and counterproductive in luring those all-important “NASCAR Dads” we’ve heard… more

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Putting the ‘Mass’ in Massachusetts

By reputation Massachusetts is the most Democratic state in the country, with good reason—its entire congressional delegation is Democratic,… more

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From Protest to Politics

When war begins progressive work doesn’t end

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Farrakhan and the Beefs of Rap

Television viewers could be forgiven for rubbing their eyes in dismay when they happened upon a conversation between Minister… more

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We Aren’t the World

Bills tie area studies funding to national interests

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Voting Machines Gone Wild!

As the federally mandated deadline nears for state election officials to replace lever and punch-card voting machines with electronic… more

vol. 28, iss. 03   

Vietnam’s Lingering Voice

Near the end of the Vietnam War, as the antiwar movement roiled domestic politics and the Viet Cong showed… more

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How to Fix the Medicare Mess

The Medicare overhaul legislation that Congress passed just before Thanksgiving does too much to help special interests and too… more

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Door by Door

Progressives hit the streets in massive voter outreach

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Border Crossings

Once in a while, a group of films suddenly arrive all sharing the same topic. Though film distributors try… more

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Cry Haiti

Trouble brews as country heads toward bicentennial

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Corporate Medicare

The Medicare “reform” bill recently passed by Congress manipulates the cost and quality of health care provided to older… more

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Goons Over Miami

It’s the police, not the protesters, getting violent

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Take Bush Home, Country Roads

With its pundits and pollsters, bloggers and blowhards, Washington might be the worst place from which to gauge the… more

vol. 28, iss. 03   

Got Drugs?

The new Medicare prescription law is a policy disaster. It offers a pittance or worse for most elderly, is… more

vol. 28, iss. 03   

Of Senators and Framers

The cramped gift shop on the Senate side of the U.S. Capitol sells only one book by a serving… more

vol. 28, iss. 03   

Manufacturing Discontent

Carrying puppets and placards, several hundred union members and community activists gathered on Nov. 1 in a lot across… more

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The Accidental Conservationist

Lisa Gautier’s environmentalist career didn’t begin with a treetop hunger strike or a bracing voyage on a Greenpeace boat.… more

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Tibet’s Gamble

Can the Dalai Lama’s China talks succeed?

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Fool Us Once, Fool Us Twice

Wisely, the makers of Shattered Glass have not pitched their film to viewers—or the media —as being about either… more

vol. 28, iss. 02   

Patti Smith: Spit & Image

Against an entertainment industry that seems so wedded to the cosmetics industry that a woman’s face is likely to… more

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Bible Gets Girly Makeover

Capitalism is nothing if not inventive—and where a market is perceived, products inevitably follow. Take niche Bibles. In 1999,… more

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Paradise Not

In last year’s film Punch Drunk Love, a lovely scene takes place in an outdoor venue by the ocean… more

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Bioprospecting

Corporations profit from indigenous genes

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Dishonorable Discharge

Bush administration slashes veteran’s benefits

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Primary Numbers

Several states opt for caucuses

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Anarchy in the U.S.A.

On September 6, 1901, President William McKinley visited Buffalo, N.Y., for the Pan-American Exposition, a celebration of the United… more

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Randall Terry Resurfaces

Christian right jumps into Terri Schiavo fray

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The Candidates on the Environment

Each of the Democratic candidates would do a superior job to President Bush at stewarding the environment. But will… more

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The Selective Solidarity of the Left

In Tehran since 1999, government vigilantes have stormed a student dormitory brandishing clubs and thrashing students with chains. They… more

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Liquidation of the Commons

There has not been such a wholesale giveaway of America’s public assets since McKinley was president in the late 1800s

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Not So Special

Protests question Bush-Blair lovefest

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End the Silence

How does this sound? By the 1880s, most Indians had been confined to reservations, often in areas of the… more

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The Candidates on Health Care

Given the long and sordid history of GOP connections to the pharmaceutical industry, health care and, especially, prescription drugs… more

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The Beehive Collective

Images of human beings don’t appear in the world conjured in the posters of the Beehive Design Collective. But,… more

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Scandalous Measures

States might lose controls on corporate crooks

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Health Scare

Medicare privatization debate reaches boiling point

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Wall Street Windfall

Democrats are hoping to make one word synonymous with Bush administration policy in Iraq, and judging by the generally… more

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Boiling Oil

ChevronTexaco faces Ecuador’s courts

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We Sold Our Soul for Rocanrol

In March 1989, University of Texas at Austin premed student Mark Kilroy disappeared during a drunken spree that led… more

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Post-Feminist Swill Redux

There it sat on the dining room table exuding kryptonite: the Sunday New York Times Magazine with the cover… more

vol. 28, iss. 01   

Vicious Circle

Shedding light on a cycle of abuse

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Bolivia Offers Cautionary Tale for FTAA Negotiators

South American leaders participating in November talks on the Free Trade Area of the Americas should look to recent… more

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Still Watching

Private industry moves in to compile personal data

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Seed of Destruction

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) got a letter the other day from the Illinois chair of the Dennis Kucinich… more

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Autism in a Needle?

The toxic tale of vaccinations and mercury poisoning

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Eli Lilly and Thimerosal

Thimerosal is an organic compound that is 49.6 percent ethylmercury. Eli Lilly and Co., the Indianapolis-based drug giant, developed… more

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