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Chávez Wins Again
Venezuelans continue to support socialist leader despite corruption fears
January 2009
COVER STORY
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Obama’s Burden
From Israel to Afghanistan, foreign policy challenges will test the new administration.
Features
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Pulp Friction
A private equity firm’s decision to shut down a profitable paper mill devastates a Wisconsin community.
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Mind the Gap
What the narrowing divide between a center-left nation and a center-right establishment portends.
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Lines Drawn in the Sandinistas
Nicaragua’s democratic left chafes under President Ortega’s rule.
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Making the Feds Model Employers
Obama must put a stop to worker abuse by private contractors.
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Which Way to Universal Healthcare?
Two leading reformers debate the role of private insurers.
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The Radical Conservative
Vietnam veteran and author Andrew Bacevich on American decadence and the failure of the Iraq War.
News
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No Choice for Immigrants
Catholic Bishops and HHS trample reproductive rights of teens in federal custody
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Korean Workers get Sirius
Female factory workers wage three-year strike against satellite radio manufacturer.
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We Arm the World
The United States once again leads the world in exporting weapons.
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Bush's Final Purge
The lame duck gives dissenters in federal agencies a last round of pink slips.
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Mo’ Power for Low Power
Activists hope Congress will allow low-power FM radio stations in urban areas in 2009.
culture
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film
See Dick Squirm
New documentary chronicles legendary 1977 Frost/Nixon interviews
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books
It's Not Easy Becoming Green
Van Jones lays out his plan for a green economy
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Live Chat -- Resistance Now!
Palestinian struggle goes viral
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books
Jim Crow in the North
A new history examines the struggle to integrate above the Mason-Dixon Line.
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The Truth Machine
Detecting lies or setting the stage for abuse?
Columnists
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Editorial
The Interactive Presidency
Obama’s 13 million supporters hope their new president will take his cues from them—that their voices will be heard above those of status quo Democrats and corporate flacks
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The Third Coast
Al Qaeda Plays the Malcolm Card
Many Islamist groups fear the election of a black American president with explicit African roots will lessen anti-American fervor among their recruits.
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Views
Prop Hate and My Family
Last Labor Day, my partner and I were legally married in California. Two months later, 52 percent of Californians voted to take our... more
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Back Talk
Invisible Women
I'm hoping that, as secretary of state, we get a Hillary 'It Takes A Village' Clinton who will see the welfare of women as central to her statecraft.
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Cancer: Cause and Defects
When Sarah Palin says stupid things, they have the virtue of sounding really dumb. Appropriate derision greeted her insistence that what caused... more
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That Old Saying in Tennessee
The veto is the legislative equivalent of a nuclear warhead -- a rarely used instrument of devastating force that singularly vaporizes the... more
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Team of Zombies
Only weeks ago, the political world was buzzing about a "team of rivals." America was told that finally, after years of yes-men... more
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Past the Point of No Return
Why did Barack Obama choose to come all the way to Denver, Colorado to sign the economic recovery package this week? Did... more
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Views
BS at BU: The O’Reilly Factor
Is it too much to ask that one of our foremost schools of journalism refrain from honoring Bill O'Reilly, no matter how generous he's been?
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