'Tell Her the Truth'
Tony Kushner & Alisa Solomon : On Caryl Churchill's Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza.
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The Editors on Timothy Geithner, Christine Smallwood on Michelle Goldberg, Susan Eaton on education reform.
Articles
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The Dirt on Clean Coal
Ari Berman : The coal industry presents itself as committed to sustainability--but is it?
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Mo(u)rning in El Salvador
Roberto Lovato : Shaking off the legacy of dictatorship, the people elect the FMLN's Mauricio Funes.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Geithnerism Must Go
: In the end, the treasury secretary's fate is less important than the fate of the economic principles he has championed.
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Experts of the World Unite
Christopher Hayes : Despite Obama's inaugural call for a New Era of Responsibility, the old cynicism threatens a comeback.
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Noted.
: Esther Kaplan on the SEIU and the California Nurses Association's "game changer"; Bruce Shapiro on the death penalty; praise and prizes for The Nation.
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Fair Elections Now!
Nick Nyhart & David Donnelly : The moment is ripe for major campaign-finance reform.
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A 'Stolen' Education
Susan Eaton : An inner-city mother jailed for sending her kids to a suburban school district? This belongs to a past we'd do best to leave behind.
Reviews
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The Wait
Elaine Blair : In The Queue, Vladimir Sorokin offers a biting and hilarious portrait of a central ritual of Soviet life.
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Back Talk: Michelle Goldberg
Christine Smallwood : Journalist Michelle Goldberg discusses the past fifty years of global reproductive issues.
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Green Acres
Greg Grandin : Percy Harrison Fawcett went to the Amazon looking for paradise. He never returned.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
On the Marketing of Yankee Grass
Calvin Trillin : Exactly what is fertilizing this super sod?
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THE LIBERAL MEDIA
Is Jon Stewart Our Ed Murrow? Maybe...
Eric Alterman : It's a sad comment on the state of the media that we have come to rely on funnymen to tell us the truth about our country.
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BENEATH THE RADAR
Bonus Outrage: Class Struggle or Class Envy?
Gary Younge : Imagine, if you will, a white-collar CEO version of the TV show Cops. Roll cameras. Send up the chopper.
Web
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'We Can't Remake Afghanistan'
Russ Hoyle : Andrew Bacevich, author of The Limits of Power, weighs in on how President Obama failed to consider the containment option in Afghanistan.
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I Love Bill Moyers, but He's Wrong About Socialism
Joanne Landy : Finally there is an audience willing to listen, albeit warily, to a challenge to capitalism.
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Socialists, Out and Proud
Dave Zirin : It's time to come out of our political closets and say openly that another world is not only possible but necessary.
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Is Another Economic Order Possible?
GRIT TV : Dean Baker, Ann Lee and Greg Denier on the G-20 Summit, the labor movement, and the possibility of a new economic order.
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Colbert Rips Beck: Career Built on 9/11
The Colbert Report : Stephen Colbert counters Glenn Beck's absurd 9/12 project with his own plan to reclaim America from 'them'.
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TruthDig
In for a Penny, In for $2.98 Trillion
Robert Scheer : The money involved in the auto bailout is chump change compared with what Wall Street got, and it is far better spent.
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Higher Education Takes a Hit
Gabriel Arana : As university budgets dwindle, adjunct professors around the country are looking to unionize in a desperate effort to protect their jobs.
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US Envoy Writes of Israeli Threats
Barbara Crossette : In a forthcoming memoir, John Gunther Dean writes about not only pressure from pro-Israeli officials in Washington but attempts on his life for reaching out to the Palestinians.
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Carmageddon '09: Obama's Lemon Aid
The Daily Show : When Detroit gives the American public lemons we give them billions of dollars.
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Blue Gold: Have the Next Resource Wars Begun?
Tara Lohan : How we decide to manage water will determine whether our future is peaceful or perilous.
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Hightower vs. McCain on Afghanistan
Brave New Films : Jim Hightower debates John McCain (sort of) over the unasked questions with regards to Afghanistan.
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The Short of It
Bridging It
K. Leander Williams : With the help of a collector, Sonny Rollins has taken the curating of his career in a new direction.
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Tell The Nation: Americans Ask the Hard Questions
Our Readers : Dispatches from Nation readers who are making the most of difficult times.
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Popular Power Not Wall Street Power
GRIT TV : Robert Johnson, former Chief Economist of the Senate Banking Committee, on why the Obama economic recovery plan is misguided.
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William Grieder on 'A New Way Forward'
Bill Moyers Journal : The Nation's William Greider discusses where he believes the new voice against Wall Street interests will come from.
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The Great Afghan Bailout
Tom Engelhardt : As with AIG, the American people could end up 'owning' 80 percent of the Afghanistan-Pakistan project without ever 'nationalizing' it.
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AIG Bonus Outrage: What's the Fallout?
MSNBC : The Nation's Ari Melber joins Washington Times columnist Amanda Carpenter to weigh in on who has the most to lose in the ongoing AIG controversy.
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Taking Up the Task
Michael Albert : Our goal should be a classless economy that eliminates the division between the coordinator class and the working class.
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'Drop the Rock': Repeal Unfair Drug Laws
Brett Story : The change in leadership at the New York state level seems poised to make a dramatic change to the state's Rockefeller Drug Laws.
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Trust Your Guts
William Greider : Wall Street reforms may further consolidate power and ratify a corporate state that combines the worst aspects of socialism and capitalism.
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Three Mile Island, the NRC and Obama
Christian Parenti : Thirty years after the Three Mile Island partial meltdown, the real nuclear power threat is the relicensing of old plants.
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The President's Never-Ending Virtual Town Hall
Ari Melber : President Obama cracked the White House door for citizens on Thursday, and some of their questions were still bubbling up long after the first virtual town hall ended.
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Breaking Down the Weekly Media Spin
GRIT TV : The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel, Robert George of the New York Post and Danny Schechter the news dissector look at the reporting of the past week.
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Don't Go There Mr. President!
Tom Hayden : Sending 17,000 or 21,000 more US troops to Afghanistan will not protect Americans against Al Qaeda attacks
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Global Labor's G-20 Agenda
Max Fraser : As financial leaders assemble in London, the international labor movement offers a vision for a new global economy.
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Militant Minorities
Dan La Botz : The task of socialists today is to build and support such militant minorities so that tomorrow we can set larger groups into motion.
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