Has the 'Journal' Lost Its Soul?
Scott Sherman : Rupert Murdoch has not wrecked the Wall Street Journal, as many had predicted. But a key question remains: is the new regime committed to unbiased reporting, or will it politicize the news?
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Chesa Boudin on Evo Morales, Greg Grandin on Obama, Calvin Trillin on torture.
Articles
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Mining Bolivia's Past
Chesa Boudin : The movement that elected Evo Morales--and that pressures him now--has deep roots.
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The Cost of Doing Business
Richard Pollak : Until the shipping community abandons its pinch-penny cynicism, piracy off the coast of Somalia is certain to grow.
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Misreading the Somali Threat
Karen Rothmyer : The Obama administration is sending mixed signals on how to deal with pirates.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Accountability for Torture
John Nichols : Congress must act to remove from positions of trust those who sanctioned torture and dial down the imperial presidency that has evolved on its watch.
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Noted.
: Jane Harman's wiretap, Chávez and Obama, justice in Guatemala, a remembrance of Walter Schneir
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Notes on Change
Christopher Hayes : Three months into the Obama era, the euphoria of the election has begun to dissipate.
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Bush's Lingering Blacklist
David Cole : If we are to pursue our security without abandoning our ideals, laws on groups financing terror need drastic reform.
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Obama & Latin America
Greg Grandin : At the Summit of the Americas, Obama went far toward repairing the damage done by two decades of disastrous economic policy.
Reviews
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When the Whip Comes Down
William Deresiewicz : With Don't Cry, a disabling self-consciousness has crept into Mary Gaitskill's fiction.
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Back Talk: Peter Singer
Christine Smallwood : A conversation with the author of The Life You Can Save about charitable giving and the utility monster argument.
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Only Words
George Scialabba : Two new histories examine contemporary liberalism's entrails and peer into its future.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
On Bush Administration Memos Supporting 'Enhanced Interrogation Techniques'
Calvin Trillin : It's all in how you define it.
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THE LIBERAL MEDIA
The Newspaper Biz: 'More Poison, Please'?
Eric Alterman : We have no more hope today of saving the newspaper business than we do the telegraph business. But we can save the news.
Crossword
Web
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Grading Obama
GRIT TV : New Yorker editor and staff writer Hendrik Hertzberg, novelist Walter Mosley, Faye Wattleton and Miles Rappaport on Obama's first 100 days and the next 900.
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TruthDig
The Clinton Bubble
Robert Scheer : Obama's allowing the same Clinton-era policy makers who set us up for financial crisis make economic policy. What happened to the socially conscious guy we voted for?
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Farewell, the American Century
Andrew J. Bacevich : In order to solve our problems Americans must begin to see ourselves as we really are.
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Planet Earth: Too Big to Fail
Philip Radford : The Obama administration is giving mixed signals on global warming: claiming the right to regulate greenhouse gases but also expecting Congress to rewrite climate change regulations.
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Howl
As Good as Their Word
Nicholas von Hoffman : Bank of America's Ken Lewis has done his bit to reinforce the idea that the CEOs who got us into this mess are a pack of liars.
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GOP: Blame Dems for Torture Too
Countdown : The Nation's Chris Hayes points out the absurdity of the double-sided GOP response to the release of Bush-era torture memos.
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The Nation Cruise 2009
VideoNation : Every year, The Nation cruise brings together supporters of the magazine with its writers, contributors and heros.
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100 Days of Cable News at Its Worst
Media Matters for America : This video features a dirty dozen collection of media moments from Obama's first 100 days, now you can vote for the worst.
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Katrina vanden Heuvel: Obama @ 100
VideoNation : The Nation's editor and publisher discusses the successes and blemishes on Obama's record over the course of his first 100 days.
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Egypt After Mubarak
Stephen Glain : The prospect of a dynastic succession could make for a messy transfer of power in the political epicenter of the Arab world.
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Killing Civilians: How Safe Do You Actually Want to Be?
Tom Engelhardt : Why dead Afghan civilians aren't collateral damage but the heart of the matter.
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Howl
Are Banks Struggling, or Scamming?
Nicholas von Hoffman : After all the help that's been given to banks or extorted from the public, we have the feeling financial institutions are not doing much with the money.
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Rethink Afghanistan Debate Part III
Brave New Films : The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel explores the similarities between the wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan in the last of a three-part debate.
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The Left Forum--Or, Why City Hall Doesn't Listen
Norman Birnbaum : Whoever now governs the country (a point on which there was no agreement) is likely to remain resolutely indifferent to the message of Left Forum 2009.
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The Challenge of Global Governance
George A. Papandreou : "Rescue socialism" won't work if it fails to go beyond quick-fix measures.
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