The Jobs Solution
Leo Hindery Jr. & Donald W. Riegle Jr. : Our economic recovery depends on a massive national plan aimed at full employment.
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The Editors on Obama's trip abroad, Stuart Klawans on the Spring blockbusters, Calvin Trillin on Sarah Palin
Articles
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Guantánamo at Home
Jeanne Theoharis : Terror suspects are held in US prisons on dubious evidence under inhumane conditions.
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When Culture Trumps Law
Emma Sokoloff-Rubin : On paper Brazil's abortion ban has a rape exception, but in reality victims are denied choice.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Obama Abroad
: If ever there was a time for bold US leadership, this is it.
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Noted.
: Sarah Arnold on the Rockefeller drug laws; Ari Melber on Obama's citizen Q&A; Manning Marable on the life of Dr. John Hope Franklin; John Nichols on Arlen Specter's stab in the back.
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Pulp Nonfiction
Christopher Hayes : A tax loophole could let the ten largest paper companies rake in a whopping $8 billion. Where's the outrage?
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Bush Torture on Trial?
David Cole : The pressure has increased dramatically for Obama to investigate former Bush administration officials for authorizing torture.
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Tennessee's Dirty Data
Kelly Hearn : New evidence shows that water contamination may have been downplayed after December's massive coal ash spill in Tennessee.
Reviews
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Warlord Politics
Andrew Rice : The fighting in Congo started as a modern crusade. Five million deaths later, it's clearly about something else.
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Disquieting and Enraptured
Barry Schwabsky : Pierre Bonnard's late still lifes, on view at the Met, are lessons in unknowing.
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Lonely Blue Boys
Stuart Klawans : Zack Snyder's Watchmen, Tony Gilroy's Duplicity, Greg Mottola's Adventureland.
Columns
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BEAT THE DEVIL
'Worse Than Death'
Alexander Cockburn : Now that New Mexico has ditched the death penalty, not much will change--except for the worse.
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SUBJECT TO DEBATE
Mad About Michelle
Katha Pollitt : Yesterday's fist-bumping radical is today's mom in chief.
Crossword
Web
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Joe Lieberman's Love of Lasers
The Daily Show : Jon Stewart wonders what upside down world sees a defense spending increase as a deep cut.
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Krugman: Optimism Is Not Enough
The Rachel Maddow Show : Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman discusses the outlook for the US economy and the reforms necessary to prevent the next financial crisis.
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Why Vermont's Marriage Equality Matters
Michael Corcoran : The legalization of same-sex marriage in Vermont could be a signal of where the freedom-to-marry movement is heading.
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Race and the Obama Administration
Danny Glover : The upcoming UN-sponsored Durban Review Conference tests America's willingness to offer global leadership to combat bigotry and injustice.
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Youth in Action: May Boeve, Climate Change Activist
Leanne Shear : "You Voted, Now What?" For Boeve, becoming an activist begins with small things--like setting up a lemonade stand.
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Baracknophobia Strikes Again
The Daily Show : Jon Stewart reviews the commentary of the right wingnuts who are speaking 'crazy to power' and explains the difference between tyranny and losing.
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Obama's Budget: Will It Bring Change?
GRIT TV : While the Obamas were in Europe the House and Senate approved the president's $3 trillion budget. But the battle isn't over. What will be cut and what will remain?
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Meltdown: Resistance and the Recession
VideoNation : Labor activist and Nation contributor Bill Fletcher, Jr. reclaims socialism and presses for a politicized grassroots movement to pressure economic changes.
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TruthDig
Summers: Living Large and in Charge
Robert Scheer : Larry Summers earned $8 million from Wall Street last year. Doesn't anyone in Congress care about the conflict?
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Fujimori: Guilty as Charged
Peter Kornbluh : Peru's disgraced former president becomes the first democratically elected head of state to be extradited, tried and convicted of human rights crimes.
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Fighting Foreclosure in South Africa
The Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign : South African activists recount their experiences in this ongoing Tell The Nation series.
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How to Save the US Auto Industry
The Daily Show : In five easy steps, The Daily Show's resident problem-solver John Hodgman lays out a plan to save American carmakers.
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The UN vs. Israel: The Gaza Fallout
Barbara Crossette : A UN investigation of Israel's attacks on Gaza may put the US in the middle of a tense dispute between the international body and Israel.
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Jeff Madrick: Grading Obama's Recovery
VideoNation : Nation contributor Jeff Madrick looks beyond the failure of banks to guarantee loans to decades of wage stagnation and decline as a factor in the economic meltdown.
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GOP Becomes the Party of No(minees)
The Rachel Maddow Show : The Nation's DC editor Christopher Hayes discusses the Republican's reckless abuse of the Senate confirmation process.
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Liberals Divided on Obama's War
GRIT TV : Unified in their opposition to the war in Iraq, liberal and antiwar groups are finding little common ground when it comes to Obama's escalation in Afghanistan.
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Southpaw
Shed No Tears for the Spartans
Dave Zirin : The vanquished Spartans of Michigan State have left a lot of people accustomed to limping through this recession walking tall.
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A Responsible Afghan Strategy
Lawrence J. Korb & Sean E. Duggan : If the United States ever wishes to leave Afghanistan, it requires a sustained engagement using all elements of national power--military, economic and diplomatic.
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Young Activists Take Bankers to Account
Kristina Rizga : Online activists spark a populist movement to fix America's economy.
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Global Crime Wave?
Michael T. Klare : In this global economic meltdown, with fifty million people potentially losing their jobs by the end of this year, one beneficiary will likely by crime syndicates.
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Barbara Ehrenreich: Is Capitalism Dead?
VideoNation : Nation contributor Barbara Ehrenreich discusses the changing definition of socialism and its new relevance to the current economic meltdown.
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President Obama's Tough Love
Saturday Night Live : American classic BarcaLounger gets some bad news as Obama expands his tough love from Detroit to other industries.
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North Korea Rocket Stirs Hawks
Katrina vanden Heuvel : North Korea's rocket launch has set the hawks circling, threatening Obama's non-proliferation agenda before it's off the ground. Chuck Hagel is pushing back.
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Old Europe, New Again
Jordan Stancil : The European economic model, berated for years by US neoliberals, made a big comeback at the G-20 summit this week.
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Why You Should Never Touch the Queen
The Daily Show : The cable news coverage of Michele Obama's casual interaction with Queen Elizabeth understated the danger posed by Britain's dreaded monarch.
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Did Colin Powell Authorize Torture?
The Rachel Maddow Show : Former Secretary of State Colin Powell seems to be suffering from an all-too-familiar case of Bush-era memory loss
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Beyond Gossip, Good and Evil
Elizabeth Mendez Berry Young love is supposed to hurt a bit emotionally, but increasingly, it bruises.
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Students Storm the Hill
Laura Dean Youth leaders march on Washington to lobby for affordable education and the DREAM Act.
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Goldman Vet Sparks Conflict On Hill
American News Project : The Nation's Christopher Hayes talks about Gary Gensler's delayed nomination to lead the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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There Is an Alternative
Hilary Wainwright : We now have an opening to generalize from myriad experiments driven by socialist values.
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