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How Badly Do You Want to Win?
Do you want a different president in 2004? I’m asking this as a serious question, not a rhetorical one.… more
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Prescription for Privatization
Democrats who supported the dreadful Republican legislation for prescription drug coverage under Medicare, which passed the House and Senate… more
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Learning from SARS
As world health officials struggle to defeat the latest global epidemic, they should be preparing for the next one
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Will You Laugh for Me, Please?
On April 8, Charles R. Douglass, the inventor of canned laughter—the artificial jollity that accompanies comical moments on TV… more
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Smash and Grab
Ang Lee’s The Hulk is the kind of rambling, overstuffed psychodrama that only a true artist could create. Reportedly,… more
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Affirmative Denial
One of the primary reasons I support the congressional bill to study the feasibility of reparations for the descendants… more
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Laws of Empire
In 1996, Burmese peasant villagers filed a lawsuit against Unocal. They charged the U.S. oil company with knowingly collaborating… more
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Big Liberty is Watching
A century after Orwell’s birth, reality overtakes his classic.
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Nose Loops: A Media Accessory
It would hardly be an overstatement to say that the late spring and early summer of 2003 have been… more
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Terror and Radicalism
It’s hard for many veteran leftists to uncurl their lips on hearing the phrase “Weather Underground.” A home-grown terrorist… more
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Justice Delayed
Cambodia finally establishes war crimes tribunal, but few have high hopes.
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Error and Liberalism
Fortunately, this little book is poorly written. If it were more coherent, it might be dangerous. Paul Berman is… more
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Banana Republicans
Moving to any new city can be disconcerting, but Washington seems farther away from Chicago than just 700 miles.… more
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Go Forth and Be Powerful
On June 1, Tony Kushner gave the following commencement address at Columbia College in Chicago. -------------- Thank you for… more
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The End of Race?
I’m not sure if many Americans have noticed, but the concept of race has taken some devastating hits in… more
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Can Radicals Be Liberals, Too?
Can young radicals—fired by great zeal, but often short on patience—be convinced to channel their prodigious organizing energies into… more
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Weapon of Mass Deception
What the Pentagon doesn’t want us to know about depleted uranium.
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Next Stop
Such optimism. Such scheming. Such giddiness. It has been nearly 40 years since so many have felt so compelled… more
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Reporting in Exile
Greg Palast is a reporter for BBC Television’s Newsnight and Britain’s Guardian and Observer newspapers. His recent book, The… more
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Registering the Peaceniks
Democrats and Greens meet in Washington to “Take Back America”
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Who’s Got the Power?
Over the past century, the destructive nature of war has changed dramatically. As a result, argues Jonathan Schell, the… more
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Hidden Agenda
Republican tax cuts aim to bloat the rich and eviscerate social programs
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Needed: A Vast Liberal Conspiracy
For all the indoctrination going on—you know, gay recruitment, media bias, and liberal professor brainwashing—it’s awfully hard to find… more
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Nuclear Cowboys in the White House
Dr. Helen Caldicott, one of the foremost peace activists of our time, is co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility… more
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Guilt by Association
In downtown Los Angeles, Ruben is enduring his freedom. At 23, Ruben wants job training, education, and a chance… more
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Smokescreen of Compassion
With much fanfare, President George Bush has committed the United States to fight AIDS. “The suffering in Africa is… more
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Ideology Reloaded
There is something inherently naïve about taking the “philosophical” underpinning of The Matrix series seriously and discussing its implications.… more
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Neocon Convergences
A funny thing happened while following the money trail of the neoconservatives who have hijacked U.S. foreign policy. The… more
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Civil Liberties Take a Dive Post-9/11
Peaceful demonstrators shot and beaten. Students expelled for wearing T-shirts opposing the president. A Girl Scout threatened with arrest… more
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Right to Know
With no help from U.S., the world takes steps to find the “disappeared”
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Gangs of Orange County
At last year’s Sundance Film Festival, an angry audience member stood up after the third screening of a film… more
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The ABCs of Media Deregulation
As soon as most people see the words “duopoly,” “cross-ownership rules,” or “FCC” in the headlines their eyes glaze… more
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The Buddha’s Teardrop
For 20 years, the Tamil Tigers have fought a vicious, separatist war against the Sri Lankan government. Can a tenuous ceasefire last?
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Biowar and the Apartheid Legacy
Just as the threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction now seems a neocon-concocted mirage, word has begun leaking… more
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Privatizing Iraq
The Bush administration’s neoliberal blueprint for the post-Saddam state
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The Next Chapter
“If rap is to stand as not only the most significant cultural movement of our time but one of… more







