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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
vol. 27, iss. 18
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
vol. 27, iss. 17 media race social justice
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
vol. 27, iss. 17
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
vol. 27, iss. 17
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
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