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IssueVol. 069 Issue 009 (September 1 2005)
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Paid articleLetters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor Tiny Labor I have been a union labor lawyer for more than twenty five years and am troubled by both the recent split in the AFL-CIO and what appears to be the knee-jerk...
Paid articlePrayers for Roberts
Comment Prayers for Roberts When he went on national TV to announce his nomination of John Roberts to the Supreme Court, President Bush was smirkier than ever. He acted like he'd just dealt...
Paid articleNo Comment
No Comment Vaguely Familiar The U.S. military admitted an error when it issued two news releases about two separate attacks in Iraq that included almost identical quotes attributed to an...
Paid articleBig Brother Negroponte
Hentoff, Nat
Bill of Rights Watch Nat Hentoff Big Brother Negroponte 1984 was never just fiction. George Orwell was well acquainted with the all-seeing eyes of Big Brother Joseph Stalin. But what Orwell could...
Paid articleTed Kennedy Eyes the Court
Conniff, Ruth
Political Eye Ruth Conniff Ted Kennedy Eyes the Court On a steamy Thursday afternoon in July, just days before President Bush chose John Roberts for the Supreme Court, Senator Ted Kennedy gathered...
Paid articlePerverse Rewards
Ehrenreich, Barbara
Flip Side Barbara Ehrenreich Perverse Rewards Typically, experiments involving the administration of random rewards and electric shocks are conducted on rats in laboratories. These experiments-all...
Paid articleWhen Maxims Mislead
Galeano, Eduardo
The Upside-Down World Eduardo Galeano When Maxims Mislead "NEW YORK, MADRID, LONDON: TERRORISM STRIKESANEW." Versions of this headline adorned many of the world's newspapers on July 8, the day...
Paid articleOn the Line
On the Line Coke and a Frown Chennai, India The Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Private Limited, a subsidiary of the U.S.-based Coca-Cola Company, has threatened one of India's most prominent...
Paid articleIs Idaho the Future?
Abramsky, Sasha
By Sasha Abramsky Illustration by Christiane Grauert Is Idaho the Future? One day this spring, Leora, more than eight months pregnant, went to visit her doctor in the little town of Caldwell,...
Paid articleReporters in the Cross Hairs
Enders, David
Reporters in the Cross Hairs By David Enders with additional reporting by Hiba Dawood in Baghdad Illustration by Tomasz Walenta Baghdad has become a very dangerous place to be an Arab with a...
Paid articleAl Franken
Thompson, Stephen
THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW by Stephen Thompson Al Franken Al Franken dabbled in political subject matter as a writer -and performer during two lengthy stints on Saturday Night Live, as well as on...
Paid article"Empathy Is the First Ingredient" A Profile of Singer Eliza Gilkyson
Jensen, Robert
"Empathy Is the First Ingredient" A Profile of Singer Eliza Gilkyson By Robert Jensen Illustration by Jacqui Oakley Eliza Gilkyson cracks oneofher more mischievous smiles and introduces a new...
Paid articleNot Here
Espada, Mart?n
Poem Not Here for Ra?l Zurita Santiago, Chile, July 2004 The other poets tell me he tried to blind himself, taped his eyelids and splashed his face with ammonia. What Zurita saw gnawed like a...
Paid articleWe're Back in Kansas, Toto
Clinton, Kate
Unplugged Kate Clinton We're Back in Kansas, Toto Lots of my friends have read and loved Thomas Frank's bracing book, What's the Matter with Kansas? As well documented in Frank's book, his native...
Paid articleLast Comes Love
Dinovella, Elizabeth
Books Last Comes Love Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage By Stephanie Coontz Viking. 423 pages. $25.95. By Elizabeth DiNovella Since antiquity,...
Paid articleRove 101
Ivins, Molly
Small Favors Molly Ivins Rove 101 The pure joy of the whole Karl Rove/ Valerie Plame affair is in watching the massive Republican spincontrol machine in operation. Here's Rove, who has famously...
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