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• Chicken wing: The West Wing will live on, and on, in syndication and on disc. But its real-time demise thankfully brings an end to a potent liberal allegory.
  by Klein, Ezra
• It takes a movement.(THE OUT YEARS)(Rosa Parks to be played by Montana governor Brian Schweitzer)
  by Schmitt, Mark
• Is the common good good? Five responses to "Party in Search of a Notion," Michael Tomasky's much-discussed essay on the future of the Democrats from our May issue.(EXCHANGE)
  by Walters, Ron
• Wacky in, wacky out.(Up Front)(Claude Allen replaced by Karl Zinsmeister as chief domestic policy adviser to the president for defrauding)(Brief article)
• Hard labor: change to win leaders had big plans last year when they left the AFL-CIO to do more organizing. The resolve is there--but so are all the usual impediments.(American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations)
  by Meyerson, Harold
• Body politics.(THE ABORTION WARS)
• Watching the detectives: other shoes begin to drop in the Duke Cunningham bribery scandal.(CAPITOL HILL)
  by Rozen, Laura
• Cash-and-parry: Bolton pushes toward a shutdown, but developing nations push back.(THE UNITED NATIONS)(John Bolton)
  by Goldberg, Mark Leon
• They've got a secret: a scholar learns that even 40-year-old papers are suddenly off limits.(Larry Berman writing about Lyndon B. Johnson )
  by Cocco, Marie
• Fairy-tale failure.(AIDS prevention, George W. Bush's abstinence policy)
  by Kaplan, Esther
• What's the matter with class?
  by Kuttner, Robert
• Is it good for the Jews? The recent controversy over the Israel lobby has focused on how it distorts U.S. foreign policy. Forgotten is whether it helps Israel (and the peace process).(American Israel Public Affairs Committee)(Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Ac
  by Levy, Daniel
• $1.27 trillion: the price is wrong: depending on which administration official you, um, believed, the Iraq War was going to cost anywhere from $200 million to zero. But it's going to fly over $1 trillion. Awaiting the arrival of a sane administration, we
  by Yglesias, Matthew
• The Tchotchkes of war.(Iraq War)
  by Kinzer, Stephen
• Solidarity man: can Tom Vilsack really get new democrats to back organized labor?(POLITICS)
  by Kuttner, Robert