The Motherhood Manifesto
Joan Blades & Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner : Mothers in America are in serious need of a new deal to remedy a profound wage gap with other working women and men, and an outdated family support structure.
The Editors remember John Kenneth Galbraith, Ann Jones writes a letter from Afghanistan, four poets win the Discovery/The Nation '06 Prize.
Articles
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Women and Warlords
Ann Jones : A policy of "affirmative discrimination" helped put twenty women in the Afghan Parliament, but how can they confront the warlords and criminals who hold most of the power?
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Saudi Arabia, a Kingdom Divided
Alain Gresh : September 11 marked a turning point in the history of Saudi Arabia, raising new questions about political repression, religious extremism and the future of its youth.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Saber Rattling Over Iran
: The US and Iran are engaged in a reckless game of chicken that could end in disaster for the Persian Gulf region and the world.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
: Longtime Nation Associate John Kenneth Galbraith is best remembered not only as a New Dealer, old-line liberal or Keynesian economist but as a contrarian and independent thinker.
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May Day, May Day
Saurav Sarkar : Despite the loud and determined voice of immigrant communities for fair and just immigration reform, we have yet to see an acceptable proposal from Congress.
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Sloppy Seconds
Stuart Klawans : The plagiarism flap over Opal Mehta is essentially a story about clichés and stereotypes passing from one subliterary commercial product to another.
Reviews
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book
On Native Grounds
Daniel Lazare : Alan Taylor's Divided Ground examines how land-grabbing settlers destroyed Indian society and how postrevolutionary politicians speeded their demise.
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book
On the Corner
David Margolick : Times Square may be the most dynamic urban space of the twentieth century, but you wouldn't know it from reading Marshall Berman's On the Town.
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Love Letters
Ruth Baldwin : Richard Lingeman's Double Lives explores the richness of friendships between such literary lions as Hawthorne and Melville, Hemingway and Fitzgerald, and Kerourac, Ginsberg and Cassidy.
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poem
Discovery/The Nation '06 Prizewinners
Grace Schulman : Works by Nicky Beer, Sandy Tseng, Eric Leigh and Shara Lessley, winners of the Discovery/The Nation Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prize.
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film
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Stuart Klawans : Reviews of four stellar films: Three Times, Art School Confidential, Lady Vengeance and Army of Shadows.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
Cheney at the Pump
Calvin Trillin : Why should anyone be surprised that Dick Cheney's good oil boys are making out like bandits?
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BEAT THE DEVIL
J.K. Galbraith and the Forks in the Road
Alexander Cockburn : While John Kenneth Galbraith was good at pointing out the failures of the free enterprise system, he could never overcome the play-to-win mentality of American capitalism.
Web
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Emerging Writers
FEMA Braces for Another Storm
Bryan Farrell : With hurricane season approaching and another Bush crony at the helm of FEMA, a few restive lawmakers are seeking real reform for the storm-tossed agency. Whether they will succeed is another story.
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TruthDig
The Spook in Your Phone
Robert Scheer : Gen. Michael Hayden, nominated by President Bush to head the CIA, is the man responsible for the most extensive attack ever on the privacy of US citizens.
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Southpaw
Bonding With the Babe
Dave Zirin : Bashing Barry Bonds has become a national sport, as the flawed slugger nears matching Babe Ruth's record. But hasn't anyone considered the faults of the Babe?
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Forecast for Snow
Jay Rosen : Jay Rosen writes that when government refuses to explain itself, it's up to journalists to find the truth. As Tony Snow debuts as White House Press Secretary, will answers on Porter Goss be forthcoming--or will the pattern of press nullification continue?
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A Hunger for Justice
Denis O'Hearn : Twenty-five years ago, IRA prisoner Bobby Sands died after a sixty-six day hunger strike. Today political prisoners from Guantánamo to Iran, Turkey and Eastern Europe continue to use hunger to draw attention to their plights.
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People Power In Nepal
Kanak Mani Dixit : Kanak Mani Dixit writes that the removal of the contemptuous Nepali regime was a type of "people power" absent from Asia and the rest of world for many years, opening dialogue with the Maoist rebels and creating the conditions for peace.
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Making the Case for Impeachment
Michael Ratner : The idea of impeaching the President is not such an unlikely notion after all.
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The Moussaoui Paradox
Bruce Shapiro : Justice triumphed over blood vengeance Wednesday as jurors declined to sentence a marginal 9/11 conspirator to death, while one of the real culprits languishes in a secret prison, unlikely to ever come to trial.
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