A Global Green Deal
Mark Hertsgaard : America must step up and lead an international campaign to curb emissions. Done properly, it will green the planet and our wallets.
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Gary Younge on populism, Amy Yee on Tibet activists, Christine Smallwood on Alva Noë
Articles
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Surfers vs. the Superferry
Jerry Mander & Koohan Paik : How grassroots activists in Hawaii threw a wrench into plans for an environmentally hazardous superferry.
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Tibetan Exiles: 'We Shall Overcome'
Amy Yee : Activists take inspiration from Rosa Parks, Gandhi and the Ruckus Society.
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Opening the Files on Bush's Secrets
Jon Wiener : Freedom of Information wish list: What did Treasury do with the TARP money? Who authorized torture? Plus, warrantless wiretap targets, FEMA's Katrina records and White House e-mail.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Obama's Call to Action
: Let's make sure Obama's investment in America's future isn't squandered in the mountains of Afghanistan.
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Obama ♥ Carrots
Christopher Hayes : The White House plan to keep homeowners out of foreclosure seems to have the stick-to-carrot ratio about right.
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Crisis of Faith
JoAnn Wypijewski : As the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court reviews defrocked priest Paul Shanley's conviction on child rape charges, "repressed memory" will be held up to scientific scrutiny.
Reviews
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Lab Test
William Deresiewicz : Does the profit motive distort and degrade the unpredictable path of scientific discovery?
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Back Talk: Alva Noë
Christine Smallwood : Philosopher Alva Noë talks about the brain, consciousness and animal rights.
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Photography's Ghosts
Frances Richard : Two new books explore the truths and artifice of photography.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
Pundits Say Washington Must Instill Confidence
Calvin Trillin : It's something money can't buy.
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THE LIBERAL MEDIA
War Is Over (If You Want It)
Eric Alterman : This just in: we won the Iraq War. And for the past eight years George W. Bush kept us safe.
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BENEATH THE RADAR
Precarious Populism
Gary Younge : The global depression is spawning social unrest, which the extreme right might try to hijack--a good reason for the left to be well organized and engaged.
Crossword
Web
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Jon Stewart Slams Rick Santelli, CNBC
The Daily Show : Here's an embarrassing 'greatest misses' collection of CNBC's pre-financial meltdown coverage.
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Help Homeowners to Level Playing Field
Brave New Films : Industry insiders reveal how predatory lending made it more profitable to run a mortgage shop than to sell drugs.
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Southpaw
Barry Bonds in Context
Dave Zirin : This is not about steroids, or an arrogant athlete getting his comeuppance--it's about the mess Bush made of the Justice Department.
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Robert Johnson on 'Zombie' Banks
Bill Moyers Journal : The celebrated economist discusses his fears and cautious hopes for the future of the international banking system.
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Will Obama Pay Your Doctor Bills?
GRIT TV : A year from now, will America have affordable healthcare? Monica Sanchez, Adam Thompson, and Dr. Walter Tsou on Obama's healthcare reform plan.
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TruthDig
AIG: Billions Dished Out in the Dark
Robert Scheer : Taxpayers now own 80 percent of virtually worthless AIG--for us, this bailout is all pain and no gain.
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Howl
The Second Great Depression
Nicholas von Hoffman : People are beginning to say that the Big One has arrived. But how will we know? And what will it take to emerge from it?
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Tom Geoghegan Talks to The Nation
VideoNation : The Nation's John Nichols speaks with Congressional candidate Tom Geoghegan in Chicago on the March 3 Democratic primary to fill Rahm Emanuel's seat.
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The GOP's Hip-Hop Makeover
Ari Melber : Michael Steele's getting funky, frantically remixing the GOP message, in hopes of reaching new generation of conservative voters. Is anybody listening?
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GOP's Obama Strategy: 'Fail to the Chief'
Countdown : The Nation's Chris Hayes deconstructs why Republicans like Rush Limbaugh are rooting for President Obama to fail.
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Why Is Barry Bonds Such a Target?
The Rachel Maddow Show : The Nation's Dave Zirin explains why Barry Bonds case is the most public example of the abuses of the Bush-era Justice Department.
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Sex Scandal: Repressed Memory on Trial
Brett Story : Nation columnnist JoAnn Wypijewski discusses the troubling conviction of Priest Paul Shanley, which has been appealed to the Massachusetts Supreme Court.
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V.G. Kiernan, 1913-2009
John Trumpbour : Remembering a historian of the left, an ideological warrior against empire, witness to India's anticolonial struggles and a persuasive critic of torture and government oppression.
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The Short of It
In the Money
Charles Taylor : An exhibit of New Yorker cartoons at the Morgan Library shows that, for the rich, America itself is enemy territory.
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What Can We Learn From Europe?
GRIT TV : Is the economic crisis in Europe any different from our own? Newsweek's Rana Foroohar, former Labour MP and Cabinet Minister Tony Benn plus others discuss the protests in Europe.
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Nation Editor vs. Karl Rove
ABC News : The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel debates the GOP guru.
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Partial Peace, Looming War
Tom Hayden : The peace movement claims victory with Obama's promise to pull US troops from Iraq by 2011. But elsewhere in a volatile world, a long war looms.
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Economically Fueled Upheaval
Michael T. Klare : As people lose confidence in the ability of markets and governments to solve the global crisis, the likeliness of violence increases.
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The Post's Stimulus Chimp
Les Payne : The uproar over the New York Post's racially insensitive cartoon has nothing to do with Al Sharpton and everything to do with the ugly history of stereotypes.
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Rethink Afghanistan: More Troops?
Brave New Films : A variety of Afghanis, journalists and academics weigh in on President Obama's decision to increase the troop deployment in the embattled country.
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Colbert Challenges Steele to Rap-Off
The Colbert Report : Nas's favorite faux newscaster offers to help the new Republican National Committee chairman take the GOP's message to the streets (and cul de sacs).
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Norm Coleman's Latest Election Scheme
Countdown : With the stimulus battle out of the way, The Nation's Chris Hayes argues Democrats now need to focus on seating Al Franken as the fifty-ninth vote in the Senate.
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Why We Detain the Innocent
Aziz Huq : Yet again the courts have ignored the Constitution and legal precedent, leaving seventeen innocent Guantánamo detainees in legal limbo.
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We Need a Department of Homegrown Security
Chip Ward : Drop the scary Bush lingo and start creating resilient communities than can effectively recover from disaster in this age of financial and climate chaos.
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Lessons in Democracy From Bangladesh
Jalal Alamgir : An instructive election in Bangladesh demonstrates that in Muslim countries around the world, the United States really needs to let democracy take its own course.
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Free Association: Students Sue the RIAA
Larisa Mann A Harvard student legal team takes on the RIAA's faulty file sharing prosecutions with a novel approach.
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An Educated Investment
Viany Orozco State legislators can help those most affected with stimulus money for education.
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