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Dancing to the New Music

E. Ethelbert Miller: DC's Split the Rock Poetry Festival offers a chance to wonder what will become of the poem in this age of rapid transformation.

Haiti's Excluded

Reed Lindsay: How the earthquake aid regime sidelines those it intends to help.
- How to Help Haiti

A Body on the Gears: On Mario Savio

Scott Saul:At Berkeley in 1964, Mario Savio embodied the need to speak and act in the face of doubt.
- Barry Schwabsky: On the Black Atlantic

The New Jim Crow

Michelle Alexander : Civil Rights & Liberties

How the war on drugs gave birth to a permanent American undercaste.
Money for Nothing

Eric Alterman : Labor

Networks are gutting news divisions while paying movie-star salaries to celebrity hosts.
Coalition of the Shilling

Nathan Hodge : Journalists & Journalism

Nonpartisan think tanks are supporting journalism--but who's supporting the think tanks?
Conservation Groups & Corporate Cash: An Exchange

Various Contributors & Johann Hari : Environmental Activism

Johann Hari's piece "The Wrong Kind of Green" takes mainstream environmental groups to task for selling out their principles, often in exchange for money from the worst polluters. We invited a range of green groups mentioned in the article to respond to Hari's arguments in this special online forum.
Banking for the People

John Nichols : Banks & Banking

Across the country, the notion of state-owned banks is catching on.
Labor War in the Mojave

Mike Davis : Unions

The multinational mining giant Rio Tinto has uprooted unions, slashed wages and abused employees all over the world. Now workers at its California facility are fighting a lockout.
Dimensions of the Abyss

Barry Schwabsky : Architecture & Design

The visual art of the Black Atlantic explores an ambivalence that exceeds double consciousness.
Chile Shaking

Marc Cooper : Chile

The most treacherous aftershock of Chile's devastating earthquake was the yawning divide between rich and poor.
Slide Show: Women's History, Across the Globe, in The Nation

: History Archive

In honor of Women's History Month, The Nation has compiled a collection of articles from the magazine's archive dating back to 1865. We present them with an accompanying slide show that features milestones in women's history and the courageous women behind them.
Dimensions of the Abyss

Barry Schwabsky : Architecture & Design

The visual art of the Black Atlantic explores an ambivalence that exceeds double consciousness.
Audacity

Edward Sorel & Richard Lingeman
The Wrong Kind of Green

Johann Hari : Environment

How conservation groups are bargaining away our future.
Noted.

The Editors : Political Analysis

John Nichols on replacing Rangel on House Ways and Means; Mark Ames on presidential politics in Ukraine.

» The Notion

Aren't We Cheneyed Out Yet?
Laura Flanders

Without Anti-gay Hysteria, Massa's a Dud for the GOP
Leslie Savan

Bernie Tells It Like It Is
Greg Kaufmann

Timetable for Health Bill Passage (w/o Public Option) Locks In | On or near the 18th, there will be House and Senate votes. There may be a White House bill signing, or two. And Obama is going to be central to the process.
John Nichols
101 Comments

» Altercation

Slacker Friday | On Evan Thomas, birthers, and the health care bill "stepping-stone" argument.
Eric Alterman

» And Another Thing

Nazia Quazi Update | Watch the video; write a letter; get involved!
Katha Pollitt
31 Comments

» Editor's Cut

Around The Nation | Nation editor Chris Hayes guest-hosts Maddow. Plus: 145 years of women's history and an exchange about the conservation movement's future.
Katrina vanden Heuvel

» Act Now!

Heidi Montag: Consumer Advocate | Hills' star spoofs self in calling for financial regulation.
Peter Rothberg
98 Comments

» The Dreyfuss Report

Hopeful Signs in Iraq? | Results are unknown, so far, and the threat of violence still simmers.
Robert Dreyfuss
97 Comments

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Audacity

Edward Sorel & Richard Lingeman
Noted.

: John Nichols on replacing Rangel on House Ways and Means; Mark Ames on presidential politics in Ukraine.
DEADLINE POET

Future Governor Races in New York; A Voter Speaks

Calvin Trillin : Grading on the curve.
Letters

Our Readers & Eric Alterman
Puzzle No. 308

Frank W. Lewis

Talking Healthcare and Consumer Protection

The Rachel Maddow Show

Guest-hosting the Rachel Maddow Show, Nation DC editor Christopher Hayes talks to Rep. Diana DeGette on healthcare and Demos director Heather McGhee on consumer protection. More »
The Wrong Kind of Green

Democracy Now

Nation writer Johann Hari discusses his recent article in which conservation groups have sided with big-time polluters instead of real science. More »
The Breakdown: How Does Incumbency Affect Elections?

Christopher Hayes

If incumbents are running scared, what does that mean for the phenomenon of the incumbency effect? More »
Lesson for Obama: Organizing 101

The Young Turks

Ari Melber explains why Obama has been so ineffectual at change while in office. More »

Could Immigration Split the Tea Party?

The Rachel Maddow Show

Guest-hosting the Rachel Maddow Show, Chris Hayes asks, will the Tea Party movement rethink their politics as anti-immigrant activists attempt to join the party? More »
Video: How to Get Our Democracy Back

VideoNation

Find out Professor Lawrence Lessig's solutions and ideas for how to fix Congress in this video companion to his cover story, "How to Get Democracy Back." More »
The Breakdown: How to Bust the Filibuster

Christopher Hayes

Could the Senate start getting things done, if only legislators didn't have to face filibuster threats? This week on The Breakdown: the history of the filibuster, and how to get rid of it. More »
Slide Show: You Know You're on a Nation Cruise When...

Comedienne Katie Halper, who joined The Nation's cruise this year, knows eleven ways to spot a Nation cruise from a nautical mile away. More »

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THE LIBERAL MEDIA

Money for Nothing

Eric Alterman
DEADLINE POET

Future Governor Races in New York; A Voter Speaks

Calvin Trillin
SUBJECT TO DEBATE

Global Women: Good News, Bad News

Katha Pollitt
BEAT THE DEVIL

Move Over, Axis of Evil

Alexander Cockburn
Chile's Socialist Rebar

Naomi Klein
DIARY OF A MAD LAW PROFESSOR

Convergences

Patricia J. Williams
A Radio Tour of Tea Party Nation

Gary Younge

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Beats and Beyond: Documenting the Poets of the 60�s New York, NY

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Books & The Arts

Reviews, essays, poems and more

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A Body on the Gears

Scott Saul : At Berkeley in 1964, Mario Savio embodied the need to speak and act in the face of doubt.
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Dimensions of the Abyss

Barry Schwabsky : The visual art of the Black Atlantic explores an ambivalence that exceeds double consciousness.
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Heroic Impatience

Diego Gambetta : The past was one single catastrophe to the Baader-Meinhof Gang, and acts of violence the only perceived exit.
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A Life's Sentence

Maureen Howard : In The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver turns a storybook into a dazzling manipulation of storytelling.
Back Talk: Martha C. Nussbaum

Christine Smallwood : A conversation with the author of From Disgust to Humanity about various forms of opposition to gay equality.
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Not Even Bing's

David Schiff : Terry Teachout's new biography of Louis Armstrong is stuck in the discophile groove.
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In Disobedient Rooms

China Miéville : Pre-emptive evolution, the voices of time, infodumps: the science fiction of J.G. Ballard offers not prescience but present-sense.
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Shelf Life

Barry Schwabsky : Charles Juliet's Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde; Matthew Spender's Arshile Gorky: Goats on the Roof: A Life in Letters and Documents; Zak Smith's We Did Porn: Memoir and Drawings.
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The Bubble and the Globe

Joshua Clover : Life in America is once more approaching John Ashbery, from one drifty moment to the next.
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The Renunciation Artist

William Deresiewicz : The axis of moral struggle, a stroke of salvation--these are the spiritual dimensions of Tolstoy's late fiction.