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Thirty-five-year-old Azine (not her real name) is still in shock at what happened to her in Western Darfur, Sudan, four months ago. One morning, soldiers entered her village, burned her house, and forced her to flee with her four children. She and her family now live in a refugee camp in Farchana, Chad, in a […]

Peter Singer is the author of Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry and the director of the Project on U.S. Policy Toward the Islamic World at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Prospect writing fellow Ayelish McGarvey spoke with him last week to discuss the rise of private military contractors in modern […]

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The near simultaneous release of Bill Clinton’s memoirs and some good news on the job front has afflicted the right with a case of cognitive dissonance. Clinton, as you’ll recall from the nineties and today’s commentary, was lucky rather than good. Presidents don’t really have all that much influence over short-term economic trends, which are […]

Now that millions of words have been devoted to assessing the mixed legacy of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, let’s take a few hundred to recall one of the attempts by liberals to respond and counter Reagan and his strategies. Since his anti-government philosophy is as alive as Reagan is dead, these responses are also still very […]

MILWAUKEE — For Ralph Nader campaign spokesman Kevin Zeese, the map explains it all. Hand drawn in black ballpoint pen, the rough state-by-state depiction of the United States is covered in hatch marks and polka dots. Florida, California, and New York are filled in with diagonal lines. The middle of the country is a blotchy […]

Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle made a revolutionary speech on the Senate floor last week. He didn’t call on the president to resign or tell a senator to “fuck yourself,” as Vice President Dick Cheney suggested to Patrick Leahy on June 22. Instead, Daschle said senators should rise above their partisan differences and work together. […]

“It is in our interest,” the politician said last week, “to bring the eight to 12 undocumented immigrants out of the shadows and become citizens of this great nation.” “We have to control our immigration,” said the other politician. “We have to limit the number of people who come to this country illegally … . […]

After four decades of tireless crusading for consumer’s rights and against corporate influence over government, Ralph Nader has developed an unblemished luster of integrity. However, as Nader forges ahead with his long-shot, independent presidential candidacy in an especially heated election season, he appears to be shedding the conviction that has formed the core of his […]

MILWAUKEE — Last night the Green Party of the United States held a raucous hour-and-a-half presidential candidate forum in which one of the two top contenders for the spot was absent, two candidates admitted that they grew up “without a flush toilet,” and self-proclaimed compromise candidate Kent Mesplay staked a claim to being the only […]