The Case for Kenosha
John Nichols : Bailouts may protect the automakers. But what about the autoworkers?
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Nick Stillman on the language of baseball, Calvin Trillin on Manny Ramirez, D.D. Guttenplan on I.F. Stone
Articles
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Time for Another Reuther Plan
Nelson Lichtenstein : Autoworkers should meet this crisis as they have in the past: boldly and visibly.
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Who's Afraid of Industrial Policy?
Max Fraser : We shouldn't pass up a chance to enlist the auto industry in a green transition.
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The Secret History of Izzy
D.D. Guttenplan : I.F. Stone was not only a great reporter; he was a radical, an irritant to power.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Coming Up Thorns
: Premature optimism about the economy could swiftly undermine the president's credibility. Stand by, taxpayers: there may be more rescues ahead.
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The More Things Change
Jeff Faux : Wall Street's pervasive influence on Obama's change agenda props up banks, while the real economy continues to suffer.
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Noted.
: The paper industry's tax loophole; healthcare reform protesters under arrest; apartheid victims' day in court; a Hillman award for The Nation.
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Lax Little Islands
David Cay Johnston : Obama and Congress must get tougher on offshore tax cheats--prosecuting them as criminals and requiring full payment, with penalties and interest.
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Ten Things You Can Do to Fight World Hunger
Eat less meat, conserve energy, buy fair-trade products, support sustainable agriculture, advocate for food security as a human right...
Reviews
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A Million Little Pictures
Barry Schwabsky : Do images understand us, the Pictures generation asked, more than we understand them?
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Last Man Standing
Akiva Gottlieb : A callous vigilante and sentimental old fogy, Clint Eastwood has become indivisible from his myth.
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Dirt Dogs and Jinegar
Nick Stillman : The richness of baseball's old, weird vernacular is pure, pointless creativity.
Columns
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BEAT THE DEVIL
Who Needs Yesterday's Papers?
Alexander Cockburn : Weep not for the death of the old Fourth Estate: at almost every critical hour, in every decade, it failed us.
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Unnatural Born Killer
Katha Pollitt : A Wesleyan student is stalked and killed by a man with a gun and a mind full of hate.
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KBR Got Bonuses for Work that Killed Soldiers
Jeremy Scahill : Former Halliburton subsidy KBR was paid $83 million in bonuses for work that electrocuted US soldiers, former employees testified today.
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New Orleans Public Schools: Still Under Water?
David Parker Jr. Four years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans public schools struggle to serve students and the educational waters are still muddy.
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Will the GOP Be Able to Make a Comeback?
The Today Show : The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel outlines the values Republicans should embrace to return from the wilderness.
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Torturer in Chief: Pelosi Over Cheney?
GRIT TV : The question of torture has been drowned out by the Washington media-driven drama of what Nancy Pelosi knew and when.
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Our Loss is BlackRock's Gain
Robert Scheer : The unregulated hedge fund calls the shots in the government's trillion-dollar bailout program--snapping up bad loans some of its execs originally marketed.
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Did McChrystal Violate Geneva Conventions?
Tom Hayden : Obama's pick to be the top US commander in Afghanistan directed a screening center in Iraq in 2003 that held terror suspects in secret facilities to which the Red Cross did not have access.
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The Torture Memos and Historical Amnesia
Noam Chomsky : Historical amnesia is a dangerous phenomenon, not only because it undermines moral and intellectual integrity but also because it lays the groundwork for crimes that still lie ahead.
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Starbucks: A History of Union Busting
Brave New Films : What do Starbucks and Wal-Mart have in common? Both have long track records of harassing their workers when it comes to joining unions.
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Barack Obama Is Cliff Huxtable
The Daily Show : Barack Obama and Cliff Huxtable are both married to hot lawyers and have unrealistically cute daughters.
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The Trials of Ehren Watada
Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith : The government drops efforts to prosecute an officer who refused to fight in Iraq. But the Army continues its campaign against him.
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Why Can't We Fire the Boss?
GRIT TV : Namoi Klein and Avi Lewis talk about how direct action worker campaigns have fared here in the United States and around the world.
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What Was I Fighting For?
Rick Reyes : I witnessed firsthand the ineffectiveness of US military strategy in Afghanistan. We need a clear mission, an exit strategy and a commitment to diplomacy.
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The Most Important Number on Earth
OntheEarthProduction : Bill McKibben, Noam Chomsky and Terry Tempest Williams discuss the urgent need reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide to 350 parts per million.
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Bush to Cheney: Be More Like Biden
Saturday Night Live : Dick Cheney gets a presidential reprimand for being on TV more than the ShamWow guy.
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In India Election, Moderation Rules
Barbara Crossette : Defying expectations and boosting hopes for stability, Indian voters rejected extremism and caste divisions, to give a decisive victory to Congress Party moderates.
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The Cure for Layoffs: Fire the Boss
Avi Lewis & Naomi Klein : Workers in the United States and Europe are beginning to ask the same question as their Latin American counterparts: why do we have to get fired?
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Guatemala's Dirty War
Kelly Lee & Michael Gould-Wartofsky : Millions of recently declassified police documents detail a thirty-six-year reign of state terror.
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President Obama v. Candidate Obama
The Daily Show : Jon Stewart points out the hypocrisy of withholding the torture photos and the firing openly gay Arabic translator Lt. Dan Choi.
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The Fabrications of Jay S. Bybee
Martin Garbus : The author of the infamous memo has been invited to testify before a Senate committee. This is the beginning of the unraveling.
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Inside the Obama-Notre Dame Debate
James Carroll : Will Roman Catholicism be swept into the rising tide of religious fundamentalism?
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Slide Show: The Nation at War
From the Civil War and D-Day to Iraq and Afghanistan, images and articles from our history archive of military conflicts and efforts to make peace.
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