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What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been
Looking back on a surreal campaign season
December 2008
COVER STORY
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Mandate for Change
Voters' message to Obama: think big
Features
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The War Dividend
Will the Pentagon lock the Obama administration into ever-escalating military budgets?
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Beyond Casino Capitalism
Bush let the gamblers run wild. Here's how Obama can rein them in.
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El Salvador’s New Left
Once a guerrilla movement, the FMLN has swapped revolutionary rhetoric for pragmatic politics.
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The Margin Walker
Veteran punk rocker Ian MacKaye on what has shocked him most during the Bush Era and why Obama gives him hope
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Morales Remakes Bolivia
A new constitution grants indigenous people unprecedented rights
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The Body Count On Main Street
The financial crisis takes a human toll
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Union-Made Lattes
The Industrial Workers of the World ramps up its campaign to organize Starbucks
News
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Monsanto Beets Down Opposition
Environmental and public health groups are suing the USDA to stop the planting of Roundup Ready-proof GMO sugar beets
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Dead Man Waiting
For the second time, a court has stayed the execution of Georgia death row prisoner Troy Davis
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Illinois Schools On Uneven Field
A Chicago educational reform movement keeps fighting to address the suburban-urban funding disparity
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Ban the Cluster Bomb
More than 100 countries have agreed to stop using them. Guess which one hasn't
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Reach Out and Rob Someone
After federal investigations into the $4 billion prepaid phone card industry found deceptive practices, state officials and Capitol Hill are finally cracking down on companies
culture
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television
Our Vampires, Ourselves
HBO's 'True Blood' is fangtastic
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film
‘Milk’ Does the Man Proud
The first major Hollywood film portraying a gay historic figure, Milk pushes gays to come out and fight for equal rights
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books
Inside the Shadow Factory
James Bamford's important new book details America's post-9/11 surveillance-industrial complex
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books
Operation Infinite Imperialism
Two recent books examine America’s military and diplomatic forays into South and Central Asia.
Columnists
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Editorial
We Have Much to Celebrate
Next year, President Barack Obama and the solidly Democratic Congress can pass legislation that provides universal healthcare, establishes a sustainable energy program,... more
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The Third Coast
Proud of Obama … For Now
The election of a black president was considered so unlikely that it seemed silly to contemplate. I never thought it would happen in my lifetime.
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Views
An Injury to Eid is an Injury to All
‘The only way working people ever win is if we stand together. It doesn’t matter whether it’s race or religion: United we stand, divided we fall.’
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Droppin' a Dime
Obama Needs a Black Agenda
Black America must demand that Obama cease pandering to the People of the Gun and launch a crusade for practical solutions to urban violence.
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Back Talk
How Will the Media Cover Obama?
If and when there is Bush ‘legacy’ talk, one big topic should be his administration’s blatant use of PR, censorship and propaganda.
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Regulating Good Government
The world is sighing with relief. The Bush era is dying, but the toxic legacy of America's worst president will linger like... more
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