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The Business of Disaster: Where’s the Haiti-Bound Money Going?
“A sweeping exercise in nation-building on a scale and scope not seen in generations,” said UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon of the international donors conference on March 31 in …

Reclaiming Our Hope
How do we counter political demoralization among those who had such high hopes for the American political process just over a year ago? It helped to finally pass the …

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Ex-Bush Official Willing to Testify Bush, Cheney Knew Gitmo Prisoners Innocent
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld once declared that individuals captured by the US military in the aftermath of 9/11 and shipped off to the Guantanamo Bay prison facility …

Joe Conason | Infrastructure: Rebuilding an American Legacy
If there is any subject that enrages those who now call themselves conservatives, it is federal spending — and especially the stimulus program enacted by the Democratic administration and …

Froma Harrop | The Five Commandments of Tax Reform
The tax code needs fixing to be fairer and less complex. But let's set some rules for this debate. Here are the Five Commandments of Tax Reform: Thou shall …

US Military Slaughters Sheep in Apology for Afghanistan Deaths
Vice Adm. William McRaven traveled to the village of Khataba to offer personal apologies for the five Afghanistan deaths in a botched special forces raid there in February. The …

IDF Soldiers Target Peaceful Protests in the Buffer Zone
Nahal Oz, Gaza - Patchwork clouds of smoke moved to and fro in the wind above a group of Palestinian youth waving Palestinian flags, standing on top of a …

Abolition: The Only Path to Nuclear Security
In Prague, President Obama signed the modest START 1 Follow On Treaty, or “New START,” between the US and Russia. It helps to stabilize the relationship between the two …

Is Sotomayor Becoming a Defendant’s Rights Justice?
During Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings, Senate advocates and the Obama administration depicted her as a judicial moderate, balancing her liberal record on equal protection cases against …

The Forever Drug War: Inside the Mexican Drug Wars Quickly Consuming a Nation
[This report appears in the Spring 2010 issue of World Policy Journal and is posted here with the kind permission of the editors of that magazine.]