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To Sleep, Perchance to 'Sleep and Think'

Mon, 08/24/2009 - 14:30
Ange Mlinko Conlangs often succeed only in stripping language of its surprise.


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Beyond Exhaustion

Mon, 08/24/2009 - 14:30
Barry Schwabsky Does the art of Dan Graham and his disciples promise deceptive simplicity or formulaic thinking?


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A Music of Austerity

Mon, 08/24/2009 - 14:30
James Longenbach In his best poems, Wallace Stevens makes deprivation feel seductively like plenitude.


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Voting in Kabul

Mon, 08/24/2009 - 14:30


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Fixing Afghanistan

Mon, 08/24/2009 - 14:30
Robert Dreyfuss It's time to give up on a centralized state, and let Afghanistan be Afghanistan--namely, a diverse, decentralized collection of fiefdoms.


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In the Theater of Isak Dinesen

Mon, 08/24/2009 - 14:30
Joanna Scott A reconsideration of the fictive truths behind a storyteller's many masks.


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Will Obama Rebound?

Mon, 08/24/2009 - 13:50


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Sawadogo's Vision

Mon, 08/24/2009 - 13:39


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Single-Payer Politics

Mon, 08/24/2009 - 13:22
Leslie Savan A single-payer plan makes so much sense that even Joe Scarborough can't argue with it.


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Gun-Toting Town Hall Tactics

Sun, 08/23/2009 - 14:46
Dan Bischoff Americans who've been bringing guns to public meetings about healthcare reform are really just responding to a media-wide casting call for crazies.


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Washington Post Flops

Sun, 08/23/2009 - 14:45


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La Despedida

Sat, 08/22/2009 - 11:43


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America's Super Rich

Sat, 08/22/2009 - 11:42


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Around The Nation

Fri, 08/21/2009 - 18:19


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Slacker Friday

Fri, 08/21/2009 - 16:57


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Investigate Ridge's Revelations

Fri, 08/21/2009 - 16:24


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The Idiocy of 'Sex-Testing'

Fri, 08/21/2009 - 15:13
Dave Zirin & Sherry Wolf South African runner Caster Semenya shouldn't be the one humiliated by "gender testing"--it's the outdated views of athletic officials that are embarrassing.


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2004 Flashback: Vote for Bush or Die

Fri, 08/21/2009 - 15:05


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DeLay the Dancer

Fri, 08/21/2009 - 02:40


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A War Not Worth Fighting

Thu, 08/20/2009 - 16:27
John Nichols A new poll shows that most Americans do not approve of the war in Afghanistan. Isn't it time for Congress to check and balance Obama's wrongheaded escalation of this fundamentally-flawed occupation?


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