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• Murder & migration: a U.S. trade deal with Colombia may just have been signed, but foreign investment projects have already cost Afro-Colombians their land and their lives.(PHOTO ESSAY)
  by Bacon, David
• How to create populists.(THE LAST WORD)
  by Reich, Robert B.
• From the secret files of Donald Rumsfeld.(PARODY)(on Iraqi War)(Brief article)
  by Frank, T.A.
• Shredding protocols.(CORRESPONDENCE)(Letter to the editor)
  by Linde, Janet; McKelvey, Tara
• Rejecting the right: on issue after issue, conservatives are increasingly isolated from their fellow Americans.(ANALYSIS)
  by Borosage, Robert
• Back to class.(The Charter School Dust-Up Examining the Evidence on Enrollment and Achievement)(The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial)(The Knowledge Deficit: Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children)(The Shame of the Nation:
  by Kahlenberg, Richard D.
• The question: how many u.s. troops will be in Iraq on January 1, 2008?(Up Front)(Brief article)
• An ACLU coup?(CORRESPONDENCE)(American Civil Liberties Union)(Viewpoint essay)
  by Johnson, Rick
• Arms dealers to the world: the defense industry wants fewer controls on its exports of armaments.(EXPORTS)
  by Plumer, Bradford
• Indictment or challenge?(Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid)(Book review)
  by Polakow-Suransky, Sasha
• DeLay vs. readers.(Up Front)(Tom DeLay starts his blog www.tomdelay.com)(Website list)
• The way out.(PROSPECTS)(Iraqi War)
  by Starr, Paul
• A gulf of good intentions: can New Orleans rebuild along green, sustainable, affordable lines? That will take serious resources--as well as better cooperation.(SPECIAL SECTION: EMERALD CITIES)
  by Lunney, Kellie
• The other war.(The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban )(Book review)
  by Lieven, Anatol
• American dreams.(Up Front)(James K. Glassman publishes The American)(Brief article)
• Help wanted--green: green development could be a big generator of good jobs--if America will seize the opportunity.(SPECIAL REPORT: EMERALD CITIES)(renewable energy sector )
  by Fitzgerald, Joan
• In Arabic in English in D.C.: up to a point, Al Jazeera English looks like your cable news. Past that point, it doesn't. Not that you can see it, anyway.(MEDIA)
  by McKelvey, Tara
• To putt is glorious.(Up Front)(Xiamen University makes golf a must for admissions)(Brief article)
• Not just for the gentry: can the "new urbanism" of green city neighborhoods, convenient to transportation and jobs, also provide affordable housing?(SPECIAL REPORT: EMERALD CITIES)(Los Angeles)
  by Dreier, Peter; Steckler, Beth
• The little pill that could: can RU-486 also treat cancer? Pro-choice advocates hope so.(WOMENS'S HEALTH)
  by Friedman, Ann
• Blaming the victims.(Up Front)(Iraq)(Brief article)
• The new environment for housing: with a few crusading advocates to lead the way, the market for green affordable housing shows promise.(SPECIAL REPORT: EMERALD CITIES)(Minnesota)
  by Brooke, Jill
• Doctoring health care, II: yo, democrats/Medicare is privatizing!(CAPITOL HILL)(Democratic Party (United States))
  by Berenson, Robert A.
• Message: prevail.(Up Front)(George W. Bush on Iraq Study Report)(Brief article)
• Healthy communities, healthy people.(SPECIAL REPORT: EMERALD CITIES)
  by Benjamin, Georges C.
• Doctoring health care, I: democrats, business, and labor look to 2008.(CAPITOL HILL)
  by Dreyfuss, Barbara T.
• United we fall.(Up Front)(Iraq Study Group)(Brief article)
• Sustainable cities: smart growth is newly fashionable. But what will it take to turn fashion into national policy?(SPECIAL REPORT: EMERALD CITIES)
  by Peirce, Neal
• The real judicial activists.(COMMENT)(supreme court justices)(Column)
  by Miles, Thomas J.; Sunstein, Cass R.
• Shock and aaaugh!(Up Front)(political conditions of United States)(Viewpoint essay)(Brief article)
  by Klein, Ezra
• Green common ground.(SPECIAL REPORT: EMERALD CITIES)( Frances Beinecke, Bart Harvey)(Interview)
  by Kuttner, Robert
• The overrated swing voter.(THE OUT YEARS)(Democratic Party (United States) wins)
  by Schmitt, Mark
• More such failures.(CORRESPONDENCE)(Letter to the editor)
  by Glasser, Paul