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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This Summer, the Worm Is Turning
Ah, this is the life. To be on vacation near the ocean, sunning on the beach by day, and,… more
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The Kids Aren’t All Right
Last April, the Children’s Defense Fund reported that more than 1 million African-American children live in “deep poverty,” in… more
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Local Anesthesia
Chicago brags it’s “a city of neighborhoods.” So does Philadelphia. So do Baltimore, Boston, and San Francisco, among many… more
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How To Sell a War
The Rendon Group deploys ‘perception management’ in the war on Iraq
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$200 Million Pyramid Scheme
The language and logic of Wall Street have so infected the political discourse that most campaign coverage is now… more
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Intelligence Report
One of the most under-reported findings of the joint congressional inquiry into the suicide hijackings of 9/11, published July… more
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Against Liberal Intervention
During the early phase of the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq, I came across a scathing critique of the war… more
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The World Was Not Enough
The role of intellectuals and ideas in the project of empire has once again come to the fore. Witness… more
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Chile’s Media Watchdog
On the same May 12 afternoon that Michael Copps, dissident commissioner for the Federal Communications Commission, was in San… more
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Is There Hope for Africa?
Being held up at gunpoint seems like a rite of passage for those who frequent Africa south of the… more
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Sells Like Teen Spirit
The nice thing about living in Washington is that on your way to the mall you can see ads… more
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Intervene with Caution
Three years ago, U. N. Secretary General Kofi Annan asked, “If humanitarian intervention is, indeed, an unacceptable assault on… more
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Help Wanted
While the economy and the job market continue to stagnate, there seems to be no shortage of odd jobs… more
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