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February 8, 2006

17:05
Berhard-Henri Lévy writes that the American left is in a semi-comatose state, thanks to the striking ideological transformation wrought by its neoconservative battalion.

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11:00
Celia Viggo Wexler and Dawn Holian report on the Senate Commerce Committee's hearing on Net neutrality.

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February 7, 2006

16:01
Gary Younge writes that the question raised by the cartoons deemed offensive to Islam has never been whether or not to draw the line but where to draw it.

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February 2, 2006

12:40
Max Blumenthal writes that Christian right leaders like Ralph Reed are paying the price as evidence mounts of their complicity in a sordid GOP gambling-industry scheme.

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February 1, 2006

17:02
Richard Wolin reviews two new books on philosophers Emmanuel Levinas and Martin Heidegger.

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16:45
James Madison once warned that in times of war, the greatest danger to America is not foreign foes but Presidents and their minions, who would abuse their powers. John Nichols considers the fate of Cindy Sheehan, arrested in the Capitol prior to Bush's State of the Union speech for wearing a T-shirt bearing the number of US soldiers killed in Iraq.

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16:45
Jon Wiener questions Amos Oz on the political and diplomatic implications of Hamas's recent victory and its impact on opportunities for peace.

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16:45
Jeff Chester writes that telecommunications giants are making plans to transform the free and open Internet to a privately run service that would charge fees for virtually everything we do online. Can we stop them?

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16:45
Robert Scheer writes that as the Enron trial unfolds, Phil and Wendy Gramm, the company's political enablers, go unpunished and uncriticized.

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16:45
Jon Wiener writes that a UCLA alumni group paid students to expose left-leaning faculty, but a negative media reaction has cost the group many of its prominent conservative supporters.

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January 26, 2006

16:52
The Editors write that few Democrats have so far had the courage to challenge the Bush Administration's illegal surveillance of American citizens. But without a coherent call to action on this issue, our liberties will be dramatically impaired.

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16:52
Sam Graham-Felsen writes that since the 1970s Republican conservatives have been the dominant political force on American campuses. But groups like Campus Progress, better groomed and better organized than their predecessors, are pushing back.

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16:52
Gary Younge writes that socially conservative black churches may be ripe for exploitation by the Christian right on the issue of gay marriage. But that's only part of the story.

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16:52
Stuart Klawans reviews Why We Fight, Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World and Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story.

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16:52
Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria writes that Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío, all but unknown in English-speaking countries, had a global impact on literature, ushering Spanish poetry into the modern era.

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16:52
David Schiff; reviews Messiaen a biography of the composer and theorist who moved French music out of the cafes and back to the cathedrals.

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January 25, 2006

13:23
Robert Scheer writes that the sexually obsessed voyeurs of the Bush Administration are poking their noses into everyone's business, with help from Internet giants like Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo.

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13:23
Nicholas von Hoffman writes that the toxic food industry is fueling an epidemic of diabetes in America.

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13:23
Gore Vidal writes that we deserve a rest from the fundamentalist presidency of G.W. Bush, whose guiding principles are antithetical to democracy and will only accelerate our decline.

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13:23
Medea Benjamin writes that polls show large numbers of American women have grave doubts about the Iraq War, but they are not speaking out. A new campaign by CodePink and other groups is encouraging women to join a global protest March 8.

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