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Useful amateurs

How the smearing of Barack Obama got crowd-sourced

Democracy and Deference

by Mark Slouka,

I blame my parents, which is trite but traditional. Six years after stepping onto the troubled shore of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s America they had a son and promptly began to fill…

Specific Suggestion

by Garret Keizer,

General strike

Untitled

by Peter Turnley,

The kids are far right

by Wells Tower,

Hippie hunting, bunny bashing, and the new conservatism

Let’s Go, Country

by Daniel Alarcón,

The new Latin left comes to Peru

Untitled

by Peter Turnley,

Between Two Worlds

by Peter Turnley,

Photographs from Bolivia

Bird-dogging the Bush Vote

by Wells Tower,

Undercover with Florida's Republican shock troops

I’m backing Britain

Art by Diarmuid Kelley,

A democratic dawn

by André Philippus Brink,

Election day in South Africa

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Useful amateurs

Democracy and Deference

Specific Suggestion

Untitled

The kids are far right

Let’s Go, Country

Untitled

Between Two Worlds

Bird-dogging the Bush Vote

I’m backing Britain

A democratic dawn

August 1994

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