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Make-a-Sheikh
How the Pentagon transformed a contractor into a symbol of the surge's 'success'
November 2007
COVER STORY
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Prison Breakdown
Overcrowding has pushed California's prison system to the brink
Features
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A Mother's March For Justice
Jena Six mother Tina Jones talks about clearing the reputation of her son Bryant Purvis
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Harry Potter and the Muggle Activists
Harry Potter is filled with a childlike magic that plays out in a world whose "dark and difficult times" often mirror those of our society
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The Left's Identity Crisis
What does it mean to be a progressive in 2007? What do we stand for? What do we believe in?
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Pirates of Private Equity
An insanely lucrative investment strategy finally faces public scrutiny
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Has the Change Led to Wins?
Not yet, but organizers from the seven unions that split from the AFL-CIO have big plans.
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Banana Republic to Baby Republic
Guatemala could shut down its massive adoption industry
News
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FCC Rocks Chicago, Chicago Rocks Back
At the recent FCC hearing in the Windy City, citizens came out in droves to voice their displeasure over the media landscape
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Harassment Unchecked at Army Hotel
Sexual abuse and rape in military culture--and a lack of action by military authorities--are long-standing problems, brought to light with the Tailhook scandal in 1991
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Lobbying for Cancer
Corporations are co-opting the federal Data Quality Act to paralyze scientists with frivolous allegations of inaccuracy, driving a stealth assault on public-health research
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Transgendered Behind Bars
A recent study by the San Francisco-based Transgender, Gender Variant and Intersex Justice Project on rape in California prisons found that 59 percent of transgender people reported being sexually assaulted in prison in 2006, compared to 4 percent of the general prison population
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The Politics of Everyday
The political changes for which we've striven have made a material difference in the way women conceive of their lives, writes Katha Pollitt in Learning to Drive and Other Life Stories
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books
Survival of the Adapted
The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory takes the theory of evolution--"survival of the fittest," a phrase that appeared only in a later printing of Charles Darwin's classic text--and, in alternating chapters, juxtaposes the relationship between Darwin and fellow biologist Alfred Russel Wallace with Fries' curiosity about his own adaptations to a world unprepared for his body and his means of motion
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Suffering Secondary Trauma
Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind explores the complexity of Chang's psychology as it formed around the demands of her profession and her personal struggles stemming from her writing about The Rape of Nanking
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Youth Gone Wild
Jared Cohen's book Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels among the Youth of the Middle East seeks to understand an area of the world where hatred for his country and religion run rampant
Columnists
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Blackwater Nation
Those seeking to pinpoint the date that propelled the private military firm Blackwater into its prominent (and disastrous) position in the U... more
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The Times vs. Feminism
Don't become a feminist. I mean it. Because then you might end up like Katha Pollitt. Wait, isn't Pollitt an award-winning poet... more
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E-Wasting Away in China
The highway of poisoned products that runs from China to the United States is not a one-way street. America ships China up... more
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Suicide and Spin Doctors
Never knowing when--or if--you will be released is a cruel form of torture. It allows you to keep hope while filling you with fear.
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Jena and the Post-Civil Rights Fallacy
Black America is under the assault of a biased criminal justice system, and the Jena protest was a spasm of its collective consciousness.
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Katrina Through Rose-Colored Glasses
Race matters in the post-Katrina era. The world still perceives us as 'refugees'--permanently scarred victims forever adrift in tragedy.
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