Gorbachev on 1989
Katrina vanden Heuvel & Stephen F. Cohen : A wide-ranging Nation interview with the former Soviet president.
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Alexander Cockburn on the right to remain naked, Dave Zirin on the big league blues, and an exchange on saving sex-trafficking victims.
Articles
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The Generation That Failed
Slavenka Drakulic : Yugoslavs were unprepared for the surge of nationalism that followed Tito's communist rule.
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Latvia's Tiger Economy Loses Its Bite
Kristina Rizga : The economic meltdown has Latvians reconsidering decades of neoliberal policies.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Break Up the Banks
: To reform the financial sector, we must break up "too big to fail" conglomerates and reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act.
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Deficit Hawk Hysteria
William Greider : The time to pay down the deficit will come only after the economy recovers.
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Noted.
: States sound off for instant runoff voting; activists unite for the International Day of Climate Action; and we remember an American radical who fought the "good fight" against fascism in Spain.
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Big League Blues
Dave Zirin : The NFL is only the highest-profile example of the economic crisis pervading the world of sports.
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Ten Things You Can Do to Reduce Incarceration
Come out of the closet about your drug use; hire a formerly incarcerated person; vote for politicians who are smart on crime.
Reviews
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Empire Falls
Ronald Grigor Suny : The story of communism's rise and fall in Eastern Europe is a tale of two revolutions.
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The Last Yugoslav
Richard Byrne : When Yugoslavia disintegrated, so too did the film career of Dusan Makavejev.
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The End of the Story?
Lars T. Lih : Archie Brown's account of the high politics of communism's collapse is Kremlinology without the guesswork.
Columns
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'U.S. Will Order Pay Cuts at Firms With Bailout Aid'
Calvin Trillin : The Wall Street types consider this unfair--they say they earned their money fair and square.
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BEAT THE DEVIL
The Right to Remain Naked?
Alexander Cockburn : Obsessions over sex have little to do with sexual behavior and everything to do with policing.
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Working Women: Strength in Numbers
Katha Pollitt : First feminism was dead because it was a "failure"; now it's dead because it was such a success.
Crossword
Web
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Obama and Organizing: One Year Later
GRIT TV : Nation contributor Elizabeth Mendez Berry discusses how the Obama administration has tried to harness its grassroots efforts post-election.
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The Swine Flu Vaccine Screw-up
Barbara Ehrenreich : Thanks to Big Pharma, your child may not get a flu shot as soon as they should.
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Enrollment Abuse Allegations Plague University of Phoenix
Sharona Coutts : Phoenix has allegedly broken the law by tying recruiters' pay to enrollment numbers, creating pressure to sign up unqualified students.
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Problems for the Public Option
Lindsay Beyerstein : The final House health reform bill has a public option all right, but not the robust version progressives were hoping for.
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Obama: One Year Later, What's Changed?
GRIT TV : Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel and others discuss what's changed, what's stayed the same and what we still hope to see happen under Obama.
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Promises Kept and Broken, One Year Later
Ari Melber : There are the things the president is doing that he said he would do. These actions can draw plenty of criticism, but not genuine shock. Then there are the things he is not doing which he said he would do.
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Slide Show: The Nation's 2009 Elections
The Nation uncovers interesting trends, rifts and potential problems progressives will need to confront in future elections.
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Keeping Afghanistan Safe from Democracy
Robert Scheer : The most idiotic thing being said about America's involvement in Afghanistan is that the best way to protect the 68,000 US troops there now is by putting an additional 40,000 in harm's way.
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Linguistic Currency
Ange Mlinko : In an information economy, tiny asymmetries in language comprehension translate into vast profits--and large-scale collapses.
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Keeping Focus on Fighting Genital Mutilation
Barbara Crossette : Is the campaign to fight female genital mutilation meeting new resistance not only in traditional societies but among Western anthropologists?
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Limbaugh: Old News or Future of the GOP?
The Joy Behar Show : Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel and Arianna Huffington discuss Rush Limbaugh's inaccurate and gratuitous Sunday morning appearance on Fox.
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Republican Party Rejects the Middle
The Rachel Maddow Show : The Nation's Christopher Hayes believes one New York congressional race marks a takeover of the GOP by far-right radicals like the tea party protesters.
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GOP Shuns Palin; Will Obama Help Dems?
The Rachel Maddow Show : Nation blogger Melissa Harris-Lacewell on the GOP's love/hate relationship with Sarah Palin, and Democratic dynamics since Obama's victory in 2008.
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On Israel's 'Domination and Its Intoxications'
Amira Hass : Accepting the International Women's Media Foundation lifetime achievement award, Amira Hass decries the "official language" that allows her fellow Israelis to avoid reality.
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Afghanistan: Too Big to Fail?
Tom Engelhardt : Why do America's leaders always opt for "more" in counterinsurgency disasters rather than cutting their losses?
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Marriage in Maine in Dead Heat
Daniel Chandler : On November 3, Mainers will decide whether to keep a law that made Maine the fifth state to legalize same-sex marriage. Polls predict a nail-biting finish.
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A Letter to Ahmadinejad
Shon Meckfessel : Nation writer Shane Bauer and his friends have been detained by Iran for almost 100 days. A fourth member of their party appeals directly to Iran's president for their release.
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Honduras: Solution or Stall?
Greg Grandin : Roberto Micheletti has agreed to a plan to end the country's political impasse. But the coup government is already looking for loopholes.
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The Heart of Wall Street
Greg Kaufmann : It's undeniable that pay czar Kenneth Feinberg has had an impact on compensation at bailed-out firms. But it's equally clear that the casino culture that created this mess remains untouched.
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Where's the Birth Control?
Sharon Lerner : Another complication in healthcare reform legislation has emerged: so far, it fails to require insurers to cover basic preventive services for women, including contraception.
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Why Obama's Iran Policy Will Fail
Dilip Hiro : Why Russia and China will sink Washington's Iran policy.
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The Antidote to Going Rogue
Robert Greenwald : A collection of Sarah Palin bloopers to complement Going Rouge, the collection of essays about Palin featuring Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel.
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A New Generation Rises at J Street
Britt Harwood : The new progressive Jewish organization J Street has benefited from the blogosphere's interest. But will exposure turn into political mobilization?
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Slide Show: Latvian Economy Loses Its Bite
As Latvia experiences one of the deepest recessions in Europe, writer Kristina Rizga and photographer Akim Aginsky report on the people caught in the financial storm.
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