How to Grow Democracy
Five leading figures of this country's food movement reflect on how food democracy can be achieved, here and now.
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Anna Lappé on cafeteria consciousness, Michael Pollan on the wisdom of Wendell Berry and Alexander Cockburn on Obama's last chance
Articles
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Why Cooking Matters
Dan Barber : The campaign for food democracy needs to start with boning knives and cast iron skillets.
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A Healthy Constitution
Alice Waters : School lunch reform is the best way to teach democratic values.
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An American Right to Food
Dave Murphy : People are beginning to understand the connection between our stomachs and our common destiny.
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Detroit's 'Quiet Revolution'
Grace Lee Boggs : How we came to see vacant lots not as blight but as opportunities to grow our own food.
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Food is Freedom
LaDonna Redmond : To engage a broader audience, food-justice activists need to change their language.
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Ending Africa's Hunger
Raj Patel, Eric Holt-Gimenez & Annie Shattuck : Bill Gates's fortune is funding a new Green Revolution. But is that what Africans need?
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Cafeteria Consciousness
Anna Lappé : Concerned about global warming, students are pushing for change--in their dining halls.
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Green Shoots in New Orleans
Dayo Olopade : A frustrating quest for food security has led some residents to grow their own.
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Wendell Berry's Wisdom
Michael Pollan : Today's conversation about food was started by dot-connecting writers like Berry in the 1970s.
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Mississippi Growing
Habiba Alcindor : An African-American community with New Deal roots finds some hope in a farmers' market.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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By Any Means Necessary
: The window is open for President Obama and a Democratic Congress to finally reform our healthcare system. Success means a bill with a strong public option, not a watered-down "bipartisan" measure.
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Vigilantes: Free to Roam?
Esther Kaplan : Our investigation into the shootings of African-Americans in the days after Hurricane Katrina seems to have gotten the feds' attention; but in New Orleans, the wheels of justice have rusted.
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By the Numbers
David Cay Johnston : Rising healthcare costs are killing wage increases.
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Food Without Fear
John Nichols : Bad peanuts and killer spinach: that's the food story of 2009. But in the coming months we may see a huge turning point in the fight for safety.
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Ten Things You Can Do to Start a Community Garden
Band together to gain control of your own food.
Reviews
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Aracataca and Sucre
William Deresiewicz : Will narrowed on a single object and fixed in the face of adversity--such is the recurring story of Gabriel García Márquez's work and life.
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Cornucopia Blues
Brent Cunningham : How will the good-food revolution move beyond its evangelical phase?
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
Cheney Offers Sharp Defense of C.I.A. Interrogation Tactics
Calvin Trillin : Again, Dick says that torture's good.
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BEAT THE DEVIL
Obama's Last Chance
Alexander Cockburn : We crave drama, but we're not getting it, except in the form of racist rallies
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SUBJECT TO DEBATE
The Female Gourmet
Katha Pollitt : A movie about women's struggle to express their gifts through work? Delicious.
Crossword
Web
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President Obama: 'The Time for Action Is Now'
C-SPAN : President Obama invokes history and offers a robust vision of progressive governance (if not the public option) in his major address to Congress on healthcare.
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Obama's Health Speech and the Big Sleazy
The Rachel Maddow Show : The Nation's Chris Hayes looks back on the impact of right-wing 'death panel' attacks of August and sounds an optimistic note about the future.
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Obama Shows His Progressive Spine
Katrina vanden Heuvel : The president's healthcare speech was not a full-fledged antidote to decades of Reaganism. But it was an eloquent call for a new progressive role for government. We must build on it.
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The Nightmare of Christianity
Max Blumenthal : Matthew Murray, a disturbed young gunman behind the the shootings in Colorado Springs, chose to end his nightmare and rebel against Christian-right self-help gurus and cult-like doctrines.
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Slide Show: Race in the Obama Era
A look at The Nation's coverage of the racial progress and tension in America during the first few months of the Obama presidency.
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Another Mysterious Electrocution Death in Iraq
Jeremy Scahill : The death of a Triple Canopy contractor in Iraq bears a striking resemblance to an earlier electrocution ruled to be a "negligent homicide."
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Why Would States Withold Stimulus?
GRIT TV : Christopher Flavelle of Pro Publica and others on why states are ignoring the stimulus welfare fund and what this could mean for the future of the program.
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Who Will Obama's Health Speech Target?
MSNBC : Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, talks about Obama, healthcare reform and the coming anniversary of the economic collapse.
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Remember the Real Villain--Wall Street
John Cavanagh & Sarah Anderson : In confusing times like these, it's important to keep the story straight.
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The War on President Obama's Czars
Countdown : The Nation's Chris Hayes weighs in on steady growth of "bizarre mythology" about Obama and the ongoing witchunt aimed at his administration.
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TruthDig
A 9/11 Reality Check
Robert Scheer : What if eight years ago the World Trade Center had been leveled by a small nuclear bomb that took out most of lower Manhattan as well?
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Robert Reich Explains the Public Option
YouTube : Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor under President Clinton, explains how the public healthcare option would work.
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Afghanistan by the Numbers
Tom Engelhardt : How to measure "success" in Afghanistan, the metrics for a war gone to hell.
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Working Without Laws
Annette Bernhardt, Ruth Milkman & Nik Theodore : Employment and labor law violations are still persistent in America. There is hope for change with the new administration.
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Can a Hip-Hop Morality Clause Work?
Tolu Olorunda It's the idea of one legendary black MC, who's dedicated two decades to the fight against rap-related violence.
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Zelaya Speaks
Tom Hayden : In an exclusive Nation interview, the deposed Honduran president assesses the significance of his recent meeting with Secretary of State Clinton.
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Outsourcing the War in Afghanistan
MSNBC : The Nation's Jeremy Scahill describes the blurring of lines between the military and companies like Blackwater, who are engaging in armed combat in the current wars.
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Zelaya's Coup
Tom Hayden : In an exclusive Nation interview, the ousted Honduran president calls the new State Department aid cutoff a "direct blow" against the regime that exiled him.
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Slide Show: Farming Revival in Mississippi
Habiba Alcindor : A photo essay of Mileston, Mississippi, and the people involved in its Farmers' Market program.
Cover and issue design by Steven Brower, cover and issue illustrations by Tim Robinson
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