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On the one-year anniversary of Katrina, we turn to ANDREI CODRESCU for comment. For two decades he’s been living in and writing about his adopted city. “Katrina was only a storm,” he said recently, “but what followed was so hideous that, one year later, we can only shake our [...]
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Anger in the Arab World: RASHID KHALIDI talks about the aftermath of Israel’s war in Lebanon. Rashid Khalidi is Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia; his new book, The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood, will be published in October. He wrote about [...]
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Tom Hamburger and Peter Wallsten of the LA Times lay out “The Republican Plan for Dominance in the 2lst Century” – how right-wing strategists are neutralizing the Democrats’ traditional advantages with Latinos, women, African-Americans and Jews — and even union members. Tom and Peter will be speaking and signing One [...]
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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq: THOMAS RICKS of the Washington Post has written a devastating story about the incompetence and folly of the Bush administration’s war. Michiko Kakutani (NY Times) called it “staggeringly vivid and persuasive.”
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Plus: Joe Lieberman is dead meat: [...]
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Over the weekend Israel bombed Qana, killing 56 civilians, 37 of them children. Israel officially apologized but claims Hezbollah tactics are responsible for civilian deaths in Lebanon. ADAM SHATZ, literary editor of The Nation, comments. Adam wrote about Israel and Lebanon for the LA Times op-ed page Tuesday. [...]