Denial in the Corps
Kathy Dobie : A stressed-out Marine Corps sends its troops on repeated tours to Iraq and then tosses them out when they come back traumatized.
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The Editors on the State of the Union, Alexander Cockburn on the Democratic contenders, John Feffer on China
Articles
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The Choice
Christopher Hayes : Here's why Obama is the left's best chance to take back the country.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Bush's Last Hurrah
: What happens when the President gives a State of the Union address and nobody listens?
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Not So Superdelegates
Ari Berman : Unelected insiders may well hold the key to the 2008 Democratic nomination. How did things become so undemocratic?
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Noted.
: A "green" Hummer, bad karma from Firestone tires at the Super Bowl, MIA at the Oscars, remembering Milton Wolff.
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Exit Edwards, Stage Left
John Nichols : His candidacy is ended, but John Edwards should continue his campaign to make economic justice in America the Democrats' core message.
Reviews
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Lives on the Ground
Adina Hoffman : New memoirs from Israel and Palestine offer the chance not to escape the political conflict but to grasp the way it impacts daily life.
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New Old Things
Frances Richard : A new collection of short pieces by the prodigious and wide-ranging critic Luc Sante doubles as a history of Modernism's outlaws.
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The Big Yam
John Feffer : Chinese hearts, minds and pocketbooks get a lot of attention from the Eastern and Western consumer markets.
Columns
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BEAT THE DEVIL
Back to the New Frontier: A Short History of Change
Alexander Cockburn : Change may be the mantra, but continuity is the undertow.
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SUBJECT TO DEBATE
Ms.understanding
Katha Pollitt : The magazine walks into a trap labeled "political correctness," "left-wing anti-Semitism" and "multiculturalist Islam love."
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LOOKOUT
Disowned by the Ownership Society
Naomi Klein : Bush turns out to be the undertaker of the free market's false promises to ordinary Americans.
Web
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TruthDig
Bush's Budget Legacy
Robert Scheer : Curb your enthusiasm. No matter who wins, we can't reverse the damage of Bush's bloated military budget.
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Why Conservatives Won't Capture the Youth Vote (Video)
Campus Progress's Erica Williams explains why young people and conservatism don't mix
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The Where of It
Barry Schwabsky : The best location for Lawrence Weiner's conceptual art is in the viewer's own imagination.
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Will the Senate OK More Bush Spying?
Ari Melber : Democratic leaders are poised to validate Bush's illegal surveillance, giving up even more ground than their Republican colleagues did. Why?
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Exit Poll
Tom Engelhardt : American voters, stuck in the world that Bush and Cheney have crafted, are sensing doom--and they want out.
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Moral Compass
Gandhi's Teachings Are Alive
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson : Mohandas K. Gandhi, killed sixty years ago, was a moment in the conscience of mankind. But the flame of hope his life inspired shapes our lives still.
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The Huckabee Factor
Sarah Posner : With talk of a possible VP slot and a dedicated core of supporters, the former Arkansas governor's popularity shows the Christian right's not done yet.
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We Might Be Giants
Dave Zirin : A Patriots Super Bowl win was written in the stars. But every once in a while, the double-digit underdog can win.
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The Choice
Christopher Hayes & VideoNation : On the eve of Super Tuesday, The Nation's DC editor explains why he thinks Barack Obama is the better choice to build a real progressive majority.
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The Strangulation of Gaza
Saree Makdisi : The breach in the wall at Rafah dramatized the fact that an imprisoned population is at the point of starvation.
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Firestone's Super Bowl Fumble
Ruthie Ackerman : Few people watching the Firestone-sponsored Super Bowl halftime show are aware of the company's reputation in Liberia for harsh working conditions, child labor and environmental ruin.
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Election 2008: I Need More
None of the candidates rises to an acceptable level on issues of social justice, inequality and confronting war and poverty.
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Florida: Youth Vote Triples, Again; Edwards and Giuliani Drop Out
"After South Carolina's Primary I drove down to Florida to see if I could talk to some young voters about their interest in the primary."
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Minors in the Big House
After two failed decades of getting "tough on crime," advocates are pushing states to reconsider trying youth as adults.
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Fiction
Machinations
Gary Phillips : The night after the funeral of her friend and mentor, Congresswoman Kang learns that all is not what it seems..
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The Lessons of the Weather Underground
Former student radical Mark Rudd explains where he went wrong--and how young people today can learn from his mistakes.
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Complications at Conception
Colorado's ballot initiative, led by 20-year-old Kristi Burton, could do much more than overturn Roe v. Wade this fall.
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Howl
The Ron Paul Economy
Nicholas von Hoffman : OK, three-quarters of what he says is wacky. But his view of the Fed's contribution to rampant inflation is right on the money.
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