A gripping new account captures the October Revolution's great intellectual facing doom (and feeding bunnies)
By Andrew O'Hehir Oct 1, 2009
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You are about to be hit by another wave of disinformation about how Social Security is going broke and needs reforming (meaning, your benefits must be cut). It's not true.
By Michael Lind
May 12, 2009
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The succession of scandals among GOP lawmakers is shattering the remaining shards of the Republican "revolution."
By Sidney Blumenthal
October 19, 2006
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A prisoner of the neocons, the president hunkers down, awaiting the outcome of the Libby indictment.
By Sidney Blumenthal
November 3, 2005
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The best biography yet of Joseph Stalin traces his life from abused child to murderous dictator -- and forces us to ask whether he could have taken a different path.
By Andrew O'Hehir
May 5, 2005
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In commemoration of April Fools' Eve, we celebrate the Seven Blunderers of the World.
By Eugene Finerman
March 31, 2000
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In a lonely tower above the mean streets of Krasnoyarsk, a wanderer encounters the fervent heart of Russia's abiding faith.
By Jeffrey Tayler
December 1, 1999
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Long ago His Honor paid 10 bucks for a Bolshevik broadsheet. I wonder where it's hanging now.
By Jock O'Connell
November 18, 1999
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Are free-software hackers undermining capitalism and the free-market economy with their code giveaways?
By Andrew Leonard
September 10, 1999
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The strange story of Lenin's embalmers and a collection of cheeky epitaphs suggest that the Reaper may not be so grim after all.
By Jonathon Keats
July 2, 1999
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The recent eruption of anti-Americanism in China reflects a deep-seated historical identity as "victim" that is holding back its emergence as a major power.
By Orville Schell
June 8, 1999
Critic's Picks: The tragic twilight of Leon Trotsky
Let's cut Social Security to pay for banker bailouts!
Queer and loathing on Capitol Hill
Bush's bunker strategy
The human monster
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