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.
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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Southpaw
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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