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Table of Contents
June 2004 (v15, no6)

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Cover illustration by Michelle Chang
design by Point Five Design



Features

Come Together

If these two can agree on a progressive strategy, so can you!

How Nancy Pelosi Took Control

The “San Francisco liberal” turns out to be a tough customer

The Seduction

The shocking story of how AARP backed the Medicare bill

Wise After All

The


Special Report

A Tale of Two Cities

In the past couple of decades, Los Angeles and Houston have both seen huge growth in their Latino populations -- and in Latino poverty. But that's where the similarities end.

Health and Wealth

Our appalling health inequality reflects and reinforces society's other gaps.

Our Unequal Democracy

Economic and political inequality reinforce each other and compromise democracy.

Race and Representation

In our new multiracial society, minorities need strategically effective coalitions.

Solve Inequality with Democracy

The agenda will change only when ordinary people take control of it.

The Narrowing of Civic Life

Professioanally run and donor-funded organizations are trampling America's real grass roots. What's the upshot? Our democracy suffers and elites dominate.

Unenlightened Self-Interest

The strange appeal of estate-tax repeal.


Columns

Drowned Out

How right-wing media abuses its liberal guests -- and why the Hannitys will lose in the end.

The Taxonomist

In praise of the Alternative Minimum Tax.


Culture & Books

All the President's Handouts

Review of Plan of Attack

For America

Review of Anti-Americanism and On Paradise Drive: How we Live Now (and Always Have) in the Future Tense

Freedom's New Fight

Review of Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity.

Hauteur Theory

Dogville director Lars Von Trier is taking it, unfairly, from all sides.

Moving the Earth

Review of Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment

Silence of the Flock

From liberal Catholics, a strange silence on Mel Gibson's Passion

What Do Mothers Want?

Review of The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined Women and Maternal Desire: On Children, Love, and the Inner Life.


Departments

Devil in the Details

Art imitates life for the “War President”; history appreciation from Mitt Romney; Thomas Jefferson, Republican; plus Tom Tomorrow

Prospects

The Meaning of Abu Ghraib


Dispatches

A Simple Plan

A Texas congressman you've never heard of does a grand thing

Mission Semi-Accomplished

The 527s struggle to promote Kerry without actually promoting him.

Waiting to Happen

Why some military reformers weren't shocked by Abu Ghraib

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