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Jose Padilla Brings Torture to Trial

Can a DOJ lawyer be held accountable for advocating the inhumane?

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All For None

Split on the candidates, unions hope to unite over a common agenda

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The Next Great Awakening

A few years ago, a young union organizer asked me, "Which are the good churches and which are… more

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A Foggy Kristol Ball

The Op-Ed pages of the New York Times, still the most influential and prestigious newspaper in the country,… more

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Escape From Recession

What you should know about the economic stimulus package

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AMA’s Conflicted President

Dr. Nancy Nielsen's résumé is exhaustive. Currently a clinical professor of medicine and senior associate dean for medical… more

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Women Behind Bars

War on drugs leads to explosion of female incarcerations

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The Democrats’ Class War

For all the hype about generational and gender wars in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary, we have a… more

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Outsourcing Zionism

For less than $4 an hour, several Jewish teenagers removed furniture, clothes, kitchenware and toys from homes and… more

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A Two Track Strategy For 2008 And Beyond

In less than a year, America will have a new president. Barring unforeseeable events, on Jan. 20, 2009,… more

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The Next President’s Iran Dilemma

Why undoing Bush's foreign policy won't be easy

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Nas: Whose Word Is This?

The rapper Nas has thrust the word "nigger" back into the limelight by making it the title of… more

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Labor Hits Jackpot

Indian casino unionizes in Connecticut despite tribal claims of sovereignty

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The Experiment in Gaza

The experiment in famine began on January 18, 2008. Israel hermetically closed all of Gaza's borders, preventing food,… more

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Extraordinary Rendition on Trial

ACLU tries to ground the Boeing subsidiary that trafficked in torture

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Guatemala’s “Crime of the Century”

Boston-born author Francisco Goldman's American-Jewish and Guatemalan heritage has allowed him to move between those cultures and explore… more

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Rocky Mountain Realities

When I told my East Coast friends a few years ago that I was going to live in… more

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Where is the Dream?

From antiwar activism to economic justice, black progressives face challenges in organizing

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Day Laborers Sue Chicago

On Dec. 5, two day laborers, in conjunction with the workers' rights group Chicago Committee for the Right… more

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In Search of Lumumba

Congo's landscape of forgetting

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The Next Gay Moment?

As another election year intensifies, more is at stake for gay people than a few overdue policy reforms.… more

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Fat Kids, Fat Profits

I recently encountered a colleague at the movies. He was big when I saw him a year ago,… more

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Remembering Mazzocchi

A streetwise high school dropout, a fierce protagonist of workers against corporate power and a down-to-earth visionary, Tony… more

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Killer Credit

Attack of the $915 billion consumer debt monster

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Tupperware and Tasers

The SUV-driving, stun-gun-wielding housewife is coming to a suburb near you. In Arizona, Tupperware-style Taser parties have become… more

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The Stimulus Swindle

"Stimulus" -- you've probably heard this nebulous, scientific-sounding word this week. Every politician suddenly wants economic "stimulus," and… more

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Nanotech: Tiny Particles, Big Risks

Nanotechnology, one of the fastest growing industries in history, is a major threat to human health and the… more

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Counterinsurgency in Chiapas

Around 3 p.m. on Jan. 2, nine shots were fired into the air. The perpetrators withdrew, leaving behind… more

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The Jamie Lynn Effect

The story was so big it made front page of the New York Times: Jamie Lynn Spears, Britney's… more

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Portrait of the Awkward Artist

If Pablo Helguera's The Boy Inside the Letter (Jorge Pinto Books, 2007) had adopted a subtitle, it would… more

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Latin America Banks on Independence

The new Bank of the South shatters neoliberal economics

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Selling Out Grandma

In late 2007, the investment firm The Carlyle Group purchased one of the country's largest nursing home chains… more

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Save the Dramatic Chipmunk

When college kids make mashups of Hollywood movies, do they violate the law? Not necessarily, according to a… more

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Digging in the Right Place

There's a memorable moment in Raiders of the Lost Ark when Indiana Jones sees a rival's archaeological excavation… more

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N.J. Closes Death Row

It's official. Before 2007 came to a close, New Jersey became the first state in the United States… more

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Musharraf’s False Dichotomy

Pakistan's autocratic president, Pervez Musharraf, has been in power for the past eight years. In November 2007, he… more

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First Came Katrina, Then Came HUD

Activists battle to save New Orleans public housing

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Meaningless in Michigan

If voters in this economically ravaged state want their votes in today's primary contest to count, it's the GOP or nothing

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Pollsters and Puppets

For Sen. Hillary Clinton, Iowa and New Hampshire are chapters of a story that began at 10 G… more

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Mr./Ms. Change Goes to Washington

Candidates promises break from Bush, but how far will they go?

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Stay Classy, Huckabee

"The uncool subject is class," author Bell Hooks once wrote. "It's the subject that makes us all tense."… more

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The Revolution Will Not Be Designed

As we look beyond housing solutions to urban poverty, good design is enjoying a second coming as the cure for what ails us

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RoboCop in Iraq

In the next five years, according to DefenseLink, the Pentagon plans to spend $2 billion on robots, breaking the monopoly of human soldiers in an army

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Catch-22 in the 21st Century

Government censors are making like Joseph Heller's character Yossarian and blacking out random information in letters from Guantánamo that has nothing to do with "national security"

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The Fog of War Crimes

Who's to blame when 'just following orders' means murder?

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Resister in Exile

Haifa Zangana survived Saddam, and urges Iraqi women to survive the occupation

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Whats Next For FISA?

The first year of the 110th Congress closed with a great deal of spilled blood, and few victories… more

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Empire’s Architecture

Should it ever be finished, the U.S. embassy in Iraq will stand as a colossal monument to the Bush administration's failures

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Dropping Out of Electoral College

Maryland is the first state to pass the National Popular Vote (NPV) into law, and several others are right behind

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Inside the Beast:

Lifelines, Lifetimes and Timelines: Hoisting Ourselves up the Fossil Chain

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