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House Passes Health Reform, But Without Reproductive Rights | Pelosi secures necessary votes, but only after allowing anti-choice Dems to bar access to abortion in new programs.
John Nichols
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» Editor's Cut
Around The Nation | Obama, one year on. Plus: Jeremy Scahill takes your
questions, and a new video series from The Nation.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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» The Notion
Injustice in Illinois | Prosecutors in Illinois should be more concerned with an innocent man behind bars than journalism students' grades.
Ari Berman
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» The Dreyfuss Report
Obama Fails in Middle East | Clinton delivers the ultimate diss to Abbas.
Robert Dreyfuss
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» Act Now!
Equality Across America | This week, young LBGT activists are staging a National Week of Initiative.
Peter Rothberg
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» Altercation
Slacker Thursday | Dying laptops, recapping the election, the Dow, and the Yankees with the World Series.
Eric Alterman
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"The Human and Fiscal Price We All Pay." Panel members: David Soares, Albany County district attorney; Robert Gangi, executive director of the Correctional Association of New York; a community activist directly affected by the Rockefeller Drug Laws; and State Assemblyman Jeffrion Aubry, chairman of the Committee on Corrections. Moderator: Gloria Browne-Marshall, author of Race, Law and American Society 1607-Present. Organizers from Drop the Rock will speak. Co-sponsored by the New York Society for Ethical Culture and the Women's City Club of New York. At the New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street at Central Park West. Free. For information, contact Caitlin Dunklee, Drop the Rock coordinator, 212-254-5700, ext. 339.
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Join award-winning journalist and author of All the Shah's Men Stephen Kinzer and other experts in the last stop in Mr. Kinzer's nationwide tour discussing the present difficulties existing between the United States and Iran and warning of the consequences of military action against Iran. Mr. Kinzer and the panelists will discuss recent and historical events and how they inform the current situation. A vision for future cooperation and reconciliation between the two countries will be outlined and discussed. The event will be at the University of California, Washington Center, 1608 Rhode Island Ave, NW. Free.
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More than 1,000 of the nation's leading social justice advocates--policymakers, funders, activists, academics and business leaders--will join together in New Orleans to help chart a new path toward a country where everyone has the opportunity to participate and prosper. The conference, hosted by PolicyLink, will feature national figures like Tavis Smiley, Salon's Joan Walsh, Sojourners' Jim Wallis and SEIU's Gerry Hudson and countless state and local advocates. Please join us to make a real, sustained change! At the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel. More information available online.
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