• Et Tu, Brüno?

  Richard Kim

  Sacha Baron Cohen's new film Brüno is mortifying, offensive and, at times, riotously funny. But is it homophobic? Are gays the new Kazakhs?

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  The Balance Begins to Tip Against Cheney

  John Nichols : Dick Cheney

  With new revelations about the former veep ordering the CIA to lie to Congress, Democrats finally start talking about an investigation that could hold him to account.

• Iran: A Compromise Deal?

  Babak Sarfaraz : Iran

  Supporters of the Green Wave increasingly see negotiations with the regime as the best way out of today's crisis.

• Obama Visits Africa's 'Oil Gulf'

  Emira Woods : Africa

  Ghanaians and other Africans are clamoring for a new direction in US Africa policy, one based in mutual interests and mutual respect.

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  New Evidence Surfaces in Post-Katrina Crimes

  A.C. Thompson : Law & Justice

  Television news reports are casting new light on the violence that flourished in New Orleans in the anarchic days after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

• Trumka Thinks Big

  David Moberg : Labor

  As he mounts his run for AFL-CIO president at a moment of opportunity and peril for American workers, Richard Trumka calls for no less than a new social compact.

• CIA's Panetta Owes Pelosi an Admission and an Apology

  John Nichols

  The CIA director should keep thing straight and simple and say: "The Speaker was right."

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  Off Dead Center

  Greg Grandin : US Foreign Policy

  William Appleman Williams and the tragedy of American diplomacy.

• Has Bratton's LAPD Really Reformed?

  Tom Hayden : Law & Justice

  The Alex Sanchez case raises troubling new questions about the war on gangs.

• Shades of Green

  Mark Hertsgaard : Environment

  Washington and Beijing should launch an efficiency revolution, the quickest path to large emissions cuts.

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  Slide Show: The Palin Saga

  : Sarah Palin

  A look back at The Nation's coverage of the Republican governor's shocking rise and possible premature fall in national politics.

• Max Baucus's Party?

  Greg Kaufmann : Democratic Party

  The Republicans may now be "the party of no," but it remains to be seen who exactly the Democrats are.

• McNamara's Evil Lives On

  Robert Scheer : Vietnam War

  It was the stark evil Robert McNamara perpetrated as secretary of defense that must indelibly frame our memory of him.

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