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Can Brazil’s Quilombos Survive?

Quilombo Country documentary reveals the modern-day challenges faced by Brazil's runaway slave communities

Anne Kogan

Viewpoint

Let’s Pry Open Those Cold, Dead Hands

To defeat the gun lobby, gun-control activists need to get out of late-night local cable and embrace the Internet

Laura S. Washington

Akbar Ganji’s Open Letter

Brian Cook

Feature

Unionbusting Confidential

To keep out organized labor, you need the union-busting law firm Jackson Lewis

Art Levine

Feature

Holy Toyland

The mega toy retailer, Wal-Mart- is now selling Biblical toys like the talking Jesus

Stephen T. Asma

Senate Moves Wrong

Anna Schneider

Dispatch

Ehud Barak’s Second Coming

In Israel's current political atmosphere, the onetime dove returns dressed in a hawk's feathers

Ralph Seliger

Viewpoint

Burned by Flame Retardants

The EPA does almost nothing to regulate the PBDEs we Americans eat, absorb and breath every day

Terry J. Allen

Feature

Training Satellites on the United States

Homeland Security plans to share spy satellite data with domestic agencies

Lindsay Beyerstein

Dispatch

AFRICOM: Round One in a New Cold War?

Two dozen military bases in Africa will help the United States compete for influence with China in the otherwise forgotten continent

Christopher Moraff

Another Taser Tale

Erin Polgreen

The Militaristic Stepping Stool

Anna Schneider

Culture

Chain Stores, Picket Fences and Tanks

American-style sprawl is adversely affecting the outposts of our global empire

Adam Doster

Viewpoint

Twilight of the Market’s Idols

Not Larry Craig, but George Bush and his careless economic policies, have left the Republican party cornered in a bathroom stall

Susan J. Douglas

Viewpoint

Another War We Can’t Afford

The neo-cons may be coordinating with the American Enterprise Institute, the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, Commentary, Fox, and all the usual suspects to build enough public support to bomb Iran

Allen McDuffee

Feature

Obama’s in the Eye of the Beholder

Can the junior senator from Illinois be both a stalwart progressive and a post-ideological unifier?

David Moberg

Feature

Trending Toward Inanity

Mark Penn's new book, Microtrends, is so epically awful that it could take the entire polling industry down with it

Ezra Klein

Viewpoint

Crocker’s Kooky Economics

In his testimony to the House and Senate, even Ambassador Ryan Crocker's limited claims of economic success in Iraq were laughable

Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium