How the US Funds the Taliban
Aram Roston : With Pentagon cash, contractors bribe insurgents not to attack supply lines for US troops
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Alexander Cockburn on Obama's election anniversary, Calvin Trillin on Lieberman's public option position, Ed Morales on Puerto Rico's economic crisis
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The Fifty-Year War
Jonathan Schell : We learned so much, at such cost, in Vietnam. Why must we learn it all again in Afghanistan?
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The Money Man's Best Friend
William Greider : Blue Dog Democrats are undermining prospects for financial-industry regulation and reform.
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Healthcare History
: The House's healthcare reform bill is a first draft of history; as with most first drafts, it has its share of flaws.
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The Perils of Palinism
Richard Kim & Betsy Reed : With enemies like Sarah Palin, who needs friends?
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Noted.
: "Tobin Tax" on the table; Palestinian Authority in peril; predictable Islamophobia after the Fort Hood shootings.
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Outrageous Fortuño
Ed Morales : The combination of a four-year recession, a $3.2 billion deficit and a toxic Republican-style governor has turned Puerto Rico into a political powder keg.
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The Misunderstood Robber Baron
Steve Fraser : T.J. Stiles's The First Tycoon is a gilded portrait of the robber baron Cornelius Vanderbilt.
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Back Talk: Amy Bach
Christine Smallwood : A conversation with the author of Ordinary Injustice about why the right to trial is no protection against a shoddy legal system.
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Evicted From His Own Head
Elaine Blair : In the stories of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, the landscape of the Russian revolution is hostile territory, and terrifying in its scope.
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Senator Joe Lieberman and the Public Option
Calvin Trillin : He'll work to make a filibuster stick.
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BEAT THE DEVIL
A Year of Obama
Alexander Cockburn : Since the president took office, his administration has yielded one surrender after another.
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Whose Team Is It, Anyway?
Katha Pollitt : Prochoicers have been taking one for the team for too long now. Enough already.
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Copenhagen: Seattle Grows Up
Naomi Klein : In Copenhagen, activists won't just say no--they will aggressively advance solutions that reduce emissions and narrow inequity.
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Green Jobs for Recovery
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins : Clean-energy sectors, which hold the promise of being major engines of job growth, are creating opportunities for those communities hit hardest by the recession: low-income communities and communities of color.
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Women Ski Jumpers Grounded
Dave Zirin : A Canadian judge allows the International Olympic Committee to trump Canadian equal rights law and keep women ski jumpers out of the Vancouver Olympics.
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Charitable Capitalism
William Greider : Goldman and the other big dogs of Wall Street are afflicted with the stink of greed, having harvested swollen fortunes from the calamity they caused for the rest of the country.
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Unemployment and the Afghan Debate
GRIT TV : The Nation's John Nichols discuss the correlation between the low unemployment numbers and our foreign policy.
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Will the Real Obama Please Stand Up?
Robert Scheer : What's up with Barack Obama? Finally someone has a good idea about how to deal with Wall Street and the White House condemns it.
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Getting Tough on Exploitation
Amy Traub : Vigorously enforcing labor law and stopping the crackdown on the nation's undocumented immigrants can boost the American economy.
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Solution to Unemployment: Pay People to Work Shorter Hours
Dean Baker : There is an easy way to get unemployed workers back to work: pay them to work shorter hours.
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Going Rouge: An American Nightmare
MSNBC : Nation editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel weighs in on Sarah Palin's book tour and our magazine's book countering it.
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The World's Women Stuck in the UN's Blind Spot
Barbara Crossette : "Mainstreaming" a focus on women into all of the United Nations' work never happened. So will an agency for women ever get off the ground?
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Sex, Lies and Sarah Palin
GRIT TV : The Nation's Richard Kim joins a conversation on Sarah Palin's recent media blitz and the impact it could have on our country's politics.
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The Palin Effect
Max Blumenthal : Why Sarah Palin can't be stopped from going nuclear inside the Republican Party.
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Honduran Crisis Outfoxes US Attempts at Negotiation
Tom Hayden : A small delegation from the Honduran resistance movement visiting the US last week drew attention to the human rights abuses of the coup government.
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What's Next for Lou Dobbs?
Saturday Night Live : Dobbs proclaims that the Latin takeover of news is upon us, as he is outraged to reveal that 99 percent of Telemundo programming is in Spanish.
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Financial Crisis Inquiry Kicks into High Gear
Greg Kaufmann : Americans want to know what went wrong during last year's economic meltdown. The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission will find the answers.
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Welcome Home, War!
Alfred W. McCoy : Will the Afghan and Iraq wars lead to a surveillance state here in the US?
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Why Is the US Paying Off the Taliban?
MSNBC : The Nation's Jeremy Scahill appears on MSNBC to discuss his colleague Aram Roston's new investigation into how the US funds the Taliban.
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Justicia Poetica
Roberto Lovato : The victory over Lou Dobbs demonstrates that the immigrant community is mobilized like never before.
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Journalism in 10: Nick Penniman on the Future of Media
VideoNation : Nick Penniman, executive director of the Huffington Post Investigative Fund talks about the impending chaotic media landscape.
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Outrage Over US Funding the Taliban
The Ed Show : Brave New Films founder Robert Greenwald praises Aram Roston's shocking new Nation piece on how the US funds the Taliban.
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No Country for Yes Men
Shakthi Jothianandan : Notorious political pranksters the Yes Men have made a career out of impersonating henchmen from major companies, including Exxon, Dow Chemical and McDonald's--and getting away with it.
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New Report Reveals US Funds the Taliban
Democracy Now : Nation contributor Aram Roston on how the US government is financing the very same insurgent forces in Afghanistan that American and NATO soldiers are fighting.
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Slide Show: Enemies of Health Reform
The Nation spotlights the senators, amendments, activists and organizations most likely to derail healthcare reform efforts.
Cover art by Peter Kuper, design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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