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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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Blood from a Turnip

Proposed overtime rules would squeeze workers.

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Strange Bedfellows

What the ACLU and the NRA have in common

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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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Opting Out of Africa

For Bush, Liberia is not worth the effort

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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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Moving on Just Fine

Web site allows women to share positive aspects of abortion

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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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No Reservations

Union workers in Chicago put the heat on hotels

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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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The Changing Face of AIDS

Young black men bear the brunt of the epidemic

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Our Living Constitution

Lawrence v. Texas gives new meaning to American freedom

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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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The Supremes and Gay Rights

A closer look at Lawrence v. Texas

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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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La Résistance

Under right-wing reform, strikes spread across France

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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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Bad to Worse

FCC approves even more media consolidation

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Seize the Time

Arundhati Roy charts a strategy against empire

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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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