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Mr./Ms. Change Goes to Washington
Candidates promises break from Bush, but how far will they go?
February 2008
COVER STORY
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Killer Credit
Attack of the $915 billion consumer debt monster
Features
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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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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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Extraordinary Rendition on Trial
ACLU tries to ground the Boeing subsidiary that trafficked in torture
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In Search of Lumumba
Congo's landscape of forgetting
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Women Behind Bars
War on drugs leads to explosion of female incarcerations
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Where is the Dream?
From antiwar activism to economic justice, black progressives face challenges in organizing
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The Next President's Iran Dilemma
Why undoing Bush's foreign policy won't be easy
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First Came Katrina, Then Came HUD
Activists battle to save New Orleans public housing
News
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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 to... more
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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 despite... more
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Labor Hits Jackpot
Indian casino unionizes in Connecticut despite tribal claims of sovereignty
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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 in 40... 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 loaded... 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 a... more
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Latin America Banks on Independence
The new Bank of the South shatters neoliberal economics
culture
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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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books
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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books
Portrait of the Awkward Artist
If Pablo Helguera's The Boy Inside the Letter (Jorge Pinto Books, 2007) had adopted a subtitle, it would have... more
Columnists
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Droppin' a Dime
Fat Kids, Fat Profits
Corporations are urging us to drink Coke in the morning and down a KFC Extra Crispy for lunch. It adds up to exploding obesity rates.
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Nas: Whose Word Is This?
Those who advocate burying the word 'nigger' have concluded that it is indelibly tainted by its racist pedigree. But no taint is indelible.
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The Jamie Lynn Effect
In a culture that is prudish and pornographic, girls are supposed to turn themselves into enticing little pop tarts who then 'just say no.'
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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 environment. Or not. The... more
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Musharraf's False Dichotomy
Pakistan's Musharraf has successfully sold to the American public the idea that one has to choose between his dictatorship or that of the jihadis.
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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 Street in Washington, D.C. ... more













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