January 2006 Volume 30, Issue 01

January 2006

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Viewpoint

Hello, Youve Got Smallpox Terry J. Allen

My fellow Americans Susan J. Douglas

Ghosts in the Voting Machines Joel Bleifuss

Will the Dems Step Up in the New Year? David Sirota

What’s the 411 on 9/11? Salim Muwakkil

Tale of Two Wars Joel Bleifuss

Feature

Cult of Character Silja J.A. Talvi

Snap, Crackle Patents Christopher Hayes

The Republican Crack-Up David Moberg

Christmas in New Orleans Fatima Shaik

To Leave or Not to Leave Mark Levine

Evo Morales Has Plans for Bolivia America Vera-Zavala

Dispatch

Irans Anti-Gay Pogrom Doug Ireland

Cleaning Up Elections in Connecticut Hank Hoffman

Chávez’s Opposition Opts Out Steve Ellner

Culture

Postcards From the Front Lakshmi Chaudhry

The Northern Slave Trade Phyllis Eckhaus

Country’s Jingoistic Jingles Craig Aaron

Cult of Character

How the 'secular' Character Training Institute is working to build evangelist Bill Gothard's vision of a First-Century Kingdom of God--one city, one state, one school board, one police force and one mind at a time.

Silja J.A. Talvi

Snap, Crackle Patents

Can you patent the business method of selling cereal? One company gave it a shot.

Christopher Hayes

The Republican Crack-Up

Bush's bad year has created a political vacuum. Who will fill it?

David Moberg

Christmas in New Orleans

Fatima Shaik

To Leave or Not to Leave

Parsing the plans for "victory" in Iraq

Mark Levine

Evo Morales Has Plans for Bolivia

America Vera-Zavala

Postcards From the Front

Recent Iraq soldier memoirs display a 'whatever, dude' detachment

Lakshmi Chaudhry

Hello, Youve Got Smallpox

The Northern Slave Trade

The hidden history of slavery in New York calls myths of American morality into question

Phyllis Eckhaus

Irans Anti-Gay Pogrom

American gay rights groups are ignoring systematic persecution in the Islamic Republic

My fellow Americans

Evil-doers are now using nursing homes as sleeper cells, training our seniors to become suicide bombers.

Susan J. Douglas

Ghosts in the Voting Machines

Country’s Jingoistic Jingles

Cleaning Up Elections in Connecticut

Will the Dems Step Up in the New Year?

What’s the 411 on 9/11?

Chávez’s Opposition Opts Out

Tale of Two Wars

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