The Most Important Financial Journalist of Her Generation
Dean Starkman : Long before most in the business press rose to the challenge, Gretchen Morgenson was reporting that the financial sector had gone rogue.
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Barbara Crossette on Ban Ki Moon, Sasha Abramsky on the war on drugs, Robert Perkinson on prisons
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The War Against the 'War on Drugs'
Sasha Abramsky : Economic necessity and shifting mores are changing the nation's approach to incarceration.
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The Virginity Movement, Rebranded
Jessica Valenti : It might sound milder, and appear hipper, but it traffics in the same old sexism.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Turmoil in Tehran
: The world is watching as the next chapter in the future of Iran unfolds.
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The Compensation Hustle
Christopher Hayes : How will Washington recalibrate the share of gains captured by shareholders, executives and workers in a post-crash economy?
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Noted.
: John Nichols on antiwar Democrats, Corbin Hiar on Greenland and global warming, The Nation Associates on Ning
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Ban's Way
Barbara Crossette : UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is halfway through his first term. Whether he gets a second term depends on his ability to get results.
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Healthcare Pushback
William Greider : Taxing benefits may raise money for Obama's healthcare reform, but it would betray union members who gave up wage increases in order to get decent coverage.
Reviews
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A World Apart?
Bernard Avishai : A shrewd history of why US presidents have failed to make Israel accept a plan for regional peace.
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Seed Projects
Marcela Valdes : Does Alejandro Zambra's Bonsai mark the end of an era in Chilean literature?
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The Prison Dilemma
Robert Perkinson : Anne-Marie Cusac examines the punitive turn in the criminal justice system.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
The Private Thoughts of a TV Anchor as He Observes the Iranian Election
Calvin Trillin : What's in a name?
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THE LIBERAL MEDIA
The Triumph of Williams's Tragedy
Eric Alterman : Still relevant, fifty years later: William Appleman Williams's Tragedy of American Diplomacy.
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Lovelorn SC Governor Admits to Just About Everything
John Nichols : Mark Sanford today took the apology press conference to a whole new level, removing yet another name from the ever-shortening list of 2012 GOP presidential contenders.
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Gov. Sanford Admits to Argentina Affair
MSNBC : South Carolina governor and 2012 GOP hopeful Mark Sanford admits to an extra-marital affair, but won't say if he'll resign.
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Bankrupt GM Begins Slashing Jobs
American News Project : The government has poured money into GM to help keep the company afloat, but the company is still slashing jobs.
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Foreclosure Fiasco
Robert Scheer : The Bush-Obama strategy of throwing trillions at the banks to solve the mortgage crisis is a huge bust. Will the president be able to extricate us from this mess?
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The Talking Helix
Patricia J. Williams : DNA research increasingly allows us to collapse time and discover criminal guilt or innocence. That's why the Supreme Court's recent ruling against a prisoner's right to post-conviction DNA testing is so baffling.
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Touring Empire's Ruins: From Detroit to the Amazon
Greg Grandin : The empire ends with a pullout. Not from Iraq, but from Detroit.
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Icons of the New Iran
Barbara Crossette : Neda Agha-Soltan has become a powerful and tragic icon of the new Iran--and an emblem of just how much women have lost in the thirty years of Islamic rule.
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GOP Struggles to Smear Obama on Iran
The Rachel Maddow Show : The Nation's Chris Hayes analyzes the Republican response to the popular protests in Iran.
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MoveOn Resumes Antiwar Stance
Tom Hayden : After months of silence on peace issues, MoveOn is mobilizing its members to demand an exit strategy for Afghanistan.
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GOP Game Plan: Obstruct Obama
The Ed Show : The Nation's editor and publisher, Katrina vanden Heuvel, explores the ways in which Republicans are becoming the 'party of no.'
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Obama's False Financial Reform
William Greider : What's missing in the President's call for reform are concrete rules that address a dysfunctional banking system. Slow down the rush to weak solutions.
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Rush Limbaugh on Sotomayor: A New Low?
Countdown : Nation blogger Melissa Harris-Lacewell reflects on Rush Limbaugh's sexist and racist smears on Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
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Bush Is Back and Bashing Obama
Countdown : The Nation's Chris Hayes discusses the re-emergence of George W. Bush and his criticisms of President Obama.
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Do Americans Have a Right to Healthcare?
VideoNation : The Nation's Chris Hayes and National Review's Reihan Salam to debate whether Americans have a 'right' to healthcare.
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Obama's Transparency Problem
Ari Melber : The president gets mixed grades on his promises of transparency: good to the public and the press, not so good to the other two branches.
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The Civilian Casualties of War
Brave New Films : The footage you are about to see is poignant, heart-wrenching and often a direct result of a US foreign policy that revolves around war.
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Obama's Iran Response Should be Bolder
John Nichols : This president does not need to make threats to champion democracy.
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Ex-Bush Loyalists: Where Are They Now?
Nick Turse : A look at just a few of these fortunate folks indicates that not everybody was harmed by the Bush era.
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Slide Show: Iran on the Edge
Images that capture history in the making from Iran's recent election and its fallout.
Cover design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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