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In a trap for three decades | The GOP’s Communist-style rigidity COMMENTARY Republican party pronouncements on the economy are stuck in a failed, wildly unrealistic ideology unlike anything in the history of the American capitalist system. For uncritical acceptance of beliefs, it is much like Stalinism, writes Henry Banta. 
The New Jim Crow | How the Drug War has subjugated poor people of color and nullified the Fourth Amendment COMMENTARY Michelle Alexander, author of 'The New Jim Crow', goes where mainstream journalists fear to tread. She explains how mass incarceration in the United States has emerged as a comprehensive and well-disguised system of racialized social control -- and how those who turn a blind eye to the problem share in the blame.
Avoidable clash | Muslim integration falling victim to media drive for conflict COMMENTARY Seven years ago, it was neonconservatism that led to a major clash between the U.S. and Islam. Will the 24-hour news cycle cause the next one?
Blind spots | Media judgment as a threat to U.S. national security COMMENTARY Juan Cole writes that the nearly nonexistent coverage of the catastrophic Pakistani deluge is another example of how the failure of our electronic media to inform the public about centrally important global developments is itself a security threat to the republic.
George Wilson’s column | Targeted assassinations abroad could lead to a police state at home COMMENTARY Retaliation is a chilling but real possibility, writes George Wilson, and it might bring about drastic losses of freedoms we now take for granted. Are we sowing the seeds for our own destruction as a democracy?
Letter from Melbourne | 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.
'Painful reminders' | 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.”
Bad cover | 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.
Steaming mad | 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.
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