We’re hot as hell and we’re not going to take it any more COMMENTARY Senate inaction on global warming leads environmentalist, author and grassroots organizer Bill McKibben to have a Howard Beale moment. He proposes three steps to establish a politics of global warming.

The real story behind Time’s Afghan woman cover: American complicity COMMENTARY The repressive and misogynistic forces the picture depicts are the very ones that were bolstered by U.S. policy in the early 1980s, and again now. The head of Jobs for Afghans proposes an answer to 'warlordism' and its medieval attitude toward women.

Why the torture story needs to be told COMMENTARY Bill Minutaglio, in the Texas Observer, says the news media need to investigate the Bush administration’s “dark story of torture…not just to affix blame, but to help rebuild our international image and ultimately strengthen national security.”

What a broken Senate looks like from far away...and why it matters COMMENTARY Our correspondent in Australia has ideas on how to improve things a little. But he’s not optimistic that anyone on Capitol Hill will be interested.

| The Gambia: A dictator's anti-media war
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On the 16th anniversary of the military takeover in The Gambia, Alagi Yorro Jallow, a 2007 Nieman Fellow, writes about the government's ongoing repression of journalists in his country.

A role for the press here | Cut tax expenditures to stimulate the economy
COMMENTARY
Cutting the special subsidies in the tax code would go far toward eliminating the deficit and stimulating the economy. It’s a way of letting the market work without government interference. Sounds like Republicans might favor it, right?

| U.S. reverses decision, grants visa to Colombian Nieman Fellow
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Nieman curator Giles cites efforts of various groups in persuading the State Department to set aside attempts at discrediting Hollman Morris, an independent TV journalist.

George Wilson’s column | No surveys needed to repeal ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’
COMMENTARY
Harry Truman needed guts, not just opinion polls, to integrate the armed forces. That’s what’s needed now, writes George Wilson.

Buy his book | The essential, undistractable Engelhardt
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The editor of TomDispatch.com is out with a new book that offers a lucid unifying theory of what went wrong in post-9/11 America. In short, the country became addicted to war.

| Bob Giles on the U.S. refusal to allow entry to a Nieman Fellow
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In the 60 years since international journalists have been awarded Nieman fellowships, Hollman Morris of Colombia is the first to be denied entry to the United States by our government. Nieman curator Giles says that if the denial holds, it would an alarming, major recasting of the doctrine of press freedom – opening journalists to charges of terrorist activities because they established contacts with and reported on terrorist organizations.

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