Exacting Change
Robert L. Borosage & Katrina vanden Heuvel : Obama's signature economic reforms are under siege. Without a grassroots challenge to business as usual, we won't get the change we were promised, much less the change we need.
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Joshua Freeman on Chicago garment workers, Teo Ballve on Plan Colombia, David Margolick on the New York Times
Articles
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Torture and Truth
Jonathan Schell : The war, as we learned from the photos of Abu Ghraib, produced torture. Before that happened, torture had produced war.
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The Selling of School Reform
Dana Goldstein : Charter and merit pay advocates make up in lobbying what they lack in community support.
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The Dark Side of Plan Colombia
Teo Ballvé : Is Plan Colombia subsidizing narco-traffickers to cultivate biofuels on stolen lands?
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All the Letters Fit to Print
David Margolick : A longstanding rivalry between old friends shows what it takes to get into the New York Times.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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The Real Sotomayor
: Conservatives should think twice before using Sonia Sotomayor's Latina identity against her.
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Tiananmen at Twenty
Jeffrey Wasserstrom : China has changed enormously since the 1989 massacre, but the Communist Party continues to deny what happened. Americans, too, continue to misremember a complex event.
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Noted.
: Meltdown in Motown: A Nation forum in Detroit gauges the city's pain and looks for solutions.
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Social Unionism Lives
Joshua Freeman : Garment workers at a suburban Chicago factory fight to save their jobs and prove that social unionism is still relevant.
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Return of the Fabulous
JoAnn Wypijewski : In the end, the vote was silly or sad, but for eighteen weeks on American Idol, Adam Lambert was Everyman and Everygayman, skating the edge of ecstasy and terror.
Reviews
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book
Vice
Stephen Holmes : Assessing the stealth, subterfuge and delusion of the Cheney vice presidency.
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film
Live Long and Prosper
Stuart Klawans : J.J. Abrams's Star Trek, Ron Howard's Angels & Demons, Olivier Assayas's Summer Hours
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
Colin Powell and Rush Limbaugh Battle for the Soul of the Republican Party
Calvin Trillin : Fellowship of the ring.
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BEAT THE DEVIL
Derail the 'Hate Crimes' Bandwagon!
Alexander Cockburn : Our laws are rapidly collapsing into symbolism.
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SUBJECT TO DEBATE
Amber Waves of Blame
Katha Pollitt : There is a generational struggle going on in feminism today, but it isn't over sex; it's over power.
Crossword
Web
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Will Afghanistan Be Obama's Vietnam?
VideoNation : The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel weighs in on the danger Afghanistan poses to Obama's progressive agenda.
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Buchanan's Bigotry Finds Home on TV
Media Matters for America : Pat Buchanan launches into paranoid racist rants in response to the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court.
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The Crisis of Conservatism
MSNBC : The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel debates Joe Scarborough on the tenets of conservatism and the legacy of Ronald Reagan.
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Is Pawlenty Plotting a 2012 Presidential Run?
The Rachel Maddow Show : The Nation's Chris Hayes discusses the possible effects of Tim Pawlenty's decision to forgo a third term as governor of Minnesota.
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GM: What Will Restructuring Mean?
GRIT TV : Rep. Dennis Kucinich, New York Times reporter Steven Greenhouse, UAW veteran Al Benchich and others on the dismantling of GM.
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TruthDig
Reagan Didn't Do It
Robert Scheer : It would be nice to blame the Gipper for the economic meltdown, but the facts don't support it. The real villains are closer at hand.
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Missing Word, Missing World: Graduating the Rest of Us, '09
Tom Engelhardt : Graduates of the Bush years, initiates of the Obama era, here's a commencement address that's suitably obscure and yet somehow ringing.
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Jon Stewart Slams Sotomayor Coverage
The Daily Show : Politicians and pundits cannot seem to look past Supreme Court Justice-nominee Sonia Sotomayor's Hispanic heritage.
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The Killer Complicity of Fox News
Countdown : Has Bill O'Reilly finally gone too far? MSNBC's Keith Olbermann links the murder of Dr. George Tiller to Fox News.
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Domestic Terror and The Death of Dr. Tiller
GRIT TV : A look at the media's response to Dr. George Tiller's murder and what pro-choice organizations need to do moving forward.
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George Tiller: Casualty of the Culture Wars?
Eyal Press : It's too early to say whether the murder of a Kansas abortion provider will trigger another wave of a type of violence last seen in the 1990s. It is not too early to be struck by the parallels.
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Galeano: Stories of Almost Everyone
GRIT TV : Why are so many people so scared? Maybe it's because of our rulers' enormous 'fear machine.' So says Eduardo Galeano, in this rare interview.
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A Killing in Kansas
John Nichols : Prochoice groups declared Monday a national day of mourning following the murder of Dr. George Tiller, a provider of late-term abortions who was long a target of antiabortion zealots.
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Southpaw
Sotomayor is a Sporting Judge
Dave Zirin : To gauge her judicial temperament, take a close look at Sonia Sotomayor's rulings in sports. Left-wing in theory, right-wing in practice--no wonder she clicked so smoothly with the Obama administration.
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Mr. Abbas Goes to Washington
Ali Abunimah : Though President Obama met with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas on May 28, there's little evidence that the United States is encouraging real progress toward a two-state solution.
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Slide Show: Blockbuster Movies
In the spirit of the summer movie season, a look back at The Nation's coverage of classic popcorn epics.
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