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This Is Not an Essay on Political Art
In November 2002, I took the Green Line of Chicago’s El for the first time. I went exactly one… more
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Roller Coaster of Coverage
The country’s seniors are debilitated by Medicaid and Medicare’s poor management, inadequate coverage, and meager attempts to compensate for… more
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The GOP’s Texas Power Grab
One of the major goals of the “southern strategy” pioneered by the Republican Party during the 1968 presidential campaign… more
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A Costly Preemption
The folly of the war in Iraq becomes more and more apparent as the bill for this misadventure is… more
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Ending the Cycle of Terror
As September 11, 2002 loomed, most everyone I knew in New York City was filled with a sense of… more
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9/11 at the Movies
Since Spike Lee’s 25th Hour, I have been expressing a mixture of hope and doubt concerning the subject of… more
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Learning To Love Leni Riefenstahl
The life and work of Leni Riefenstahl, who died on Monday at age 101, seems to lend itself to… more
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The WTO’s Broken Promise
Trade negotiators promised that “development” of the world’s poorer nations would be at the top of their agenda during… more
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A Woman of Influence
For many within the American civil rights movement, Ella Josephine Baker was a consummate organizer, a politically sophisticated intellectual,… more
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The Devil and Daniel Pipes
The Bush administration’s war on terrorism has done little so far but increase the ranks of potential terrorists. And… more
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War on the Bill of Rights
The erosion of sections of the Bill of Rights quickened when the president signed the USA PATRIOT Act on… more
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Gleaming the Rubes
I was duped into seeing Grind. Duped! I heard that it featured Bam Margera, pro skater and one of… more
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Third World, Here We Come
How, like, totally embarrassing. In the wake of the big blackout, critics charged that the United States has a… more
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Military Families Against the War
Millions of Americans are anxious about and even opposed to the American war on Iraq and to the bloody… more
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Don’t Be an Idiot!
The greatest offense against our society these days is not any one law or a particular assault on our… more
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Landmine Rock
Music festivals are an essential part of an English summer. People arrive, set up their campsites, lay down their… more
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Power to the People
With an estimated 50 million Americans and Canadians having been left without power (and in some cases water) in… more
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Rods from God
With no fanfare, the Bush Administration is taking military control of what it terms “near space,” thereby laying claim… more
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Decisions, Decisions
As labor ponders which Democrat to endorse, it also girds for battle against the GOP in ‘04
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Free at Last
At center stage, underneath a solitary spotlight, a middle-aged black man tells of how he ended up on Death… more
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In God’s Country
Early on July 24, 1984, Dan Lafferty, a fundamentalist Mormon living near Provo, Utah, got out of bed, prayed… more
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Trading in Terror
What does it take to end a career in public service? Mere treason evidently doesn’t cut it, as has… more
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The Naked and the Dead
Deep in the Babylonian Talmud, heard amid its ancient rustlings and disputings and brain-whorls and coiled insanities, is talk… more
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Women on the Edge
In the early part of the 21st century, American women find themselves at a powerful, transitional place in the… more
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Gender Trouble
How far can identity politics really take us? The latest evidence of their success is all around us. From… more
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Sex and the Student Body
My first week of college I enjoyed my first dose of smut. The source? Squirm: The Art of Campus… more
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Is Baseball Ready for a Gay Jackie Robinson?
Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out, which won this year’s Tony award for best Broadway play, tells the story of… more
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The Summer of Civil Rights
The four major civil rights organizations—the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the National Urban League… more
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Electricity Markets and the Blackout
When California suffered its energy crisis two years ago, it was first presented as a problem of too little… more
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Web of Lies
Now that the invasion of Iraq is a fait accompli, the mainstream U.S. news media are finally giving significant… more
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Memory, Down with the Ship
Günter Grass’ latest novel, Crabwalk, examines the 1945 sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff. The worst maritime disaster in world… more
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