• Filibustering the Public

  The Editors : Health Care Policy

  Filibustering healthcare reform? This is not what democracy looks like.

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  The Afghan Speech Obama Should Give (But Won't)

  Tom Engelhardt : Afghanistan War

  What if the president actually decided to take an "off-ramp" from the Afghan War?

• Last Column About Sarah Palin--Ever

  Katha Pollitt : Sarah Palin

  We can't stop looking at our first female political train wreck.

• Tell The Nation: Recession Stories

  Our Readers : Labor

  In response to Lizzy Ratner's "Generation Recession," young readers from across the country wrote to The Nation to share how the recession has impacted them.

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  How to Save Journalism

  John Nichols & Robert W. McChesney : Media

  To save news media, stop blaming the Internet and start thinking about how subsidies could revive a public good.

• California Scheming

  Ben Ehrenreich : Higher Education

  In the latest push to privatize public education, regents at the University of California have raised tuition by 32 percent.

• Red Scare, Black Scare

  JoAnn Wypijewski : Sex & Sexuality

  The birthers, the anticommunist crazies, the "Obama as Witch Doctor" caricatures: they're all of a piece, welded to sex.

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  An Inconvenient Solution

  Bill McKibben : Global Warming & Climate Change

  In Our Choice, Al Gore explains what must be done. But is there the political will to do it?

• Still Doing God's Work on Wall Street

  Robert Scheer : U.S. Economy

  Is anyone ever going to be held accountable for the sweetheart deals that passed billions of taxpayer dollars through the AIG shell game to the banks that caused the meltdown?

• In the Shadow of Hoover

  William Greider : U.S. Economy

  Deficit spending is a cure for our troubles, not the cause. If Obama reduces the red ink, the Great Recession could be born again

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  Slide Show: Enemies of Health Reform

  : Health Care Policy

  The Nation spotlights the senators, amendments, activists and organizations most likely to derail healthcare reform efforts.

• Wing Nut Ex Machina

  Calvin Trillin : Humor

  The ace that the Democrats have in their deck.

• Light in the Middle of the Tunnel

  Alexander Cockburn : Barack Obama Administration

  The upcoming trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is the best news for the print press since Monica Lewinsky.

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