American Jews Rethink Israel
Adam Horowitz & Philip Weiss : The Jewish push for peace is surging through the grassroots, but leaders and policy-makers are still turning a deaf ear.
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The Editors on Obama's Nobel, Alexander Cockburn on the method behind the Nobel Prize madness, Calvin Trillin on the Nobel Committee's explanation
Articles
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Confessions of an AIPAC Veteran
Helena Cobban : Tom Dine, for thirteen years head of AIPAC, now works for a two-state solution and on improving US-Syrian relations.
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Kilcullen's Long War
Tom Hayden : An influential Pentagon strategist advocates a fifty-year counterinsurgency campaign.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Obama's Nobel
: Did the president deserve to win the Nobel Peace Prize? No, of course not. But he still has a chance to earn it.
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The ACORN Standard
Jeremy Scahill : A growing number of lawmakers are starting to ask: if ACORN's federal funding should be under intense scrutiny, why aren't the billions of dollars going to out-of-control contractors being regulated?
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Noted.
: GOP obstruction of Obama appointees continues to succeed; an immigration-policing program draws substantial heat; The Nation's Gary Younge receives Britain's prestigious James Cameron Memorial Award.
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Left Turn in Jersey
John Nichols : By embracing the left instead of running to the center, New Jersey's Democratic Governor Jon Corzine has revitalized his once-troubled re-election campaign.
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New Rules for Schools
Amy Bach : The most effective way to fight violence in schools is not the widespread "zero tolerance" model. Thankfully, Clayton County, Georgia, may have the perfect solution.
Reviews
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Honey and Salt
William Deresiewicz : Technology has made us capable of exterminating ourselves. In The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood wonders what might save us.
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Changing the Metaphor
Richard White : For Jackson Lears, the United States remains in thrall to a bogus spiritual quest born of a refusal to face the tragedy of the Civil War.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
Three Possible Explanations From the Nobel Committee
Calvin Trillin : They have some justifying to do.
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BEAT THE DEVIL
A Gift From the Ramparts of Capital...
Alexander Cockburn : People shouldn't take Peace Prizes too seriously except under those rare circumstances when a prize committee somewhere gets it right.
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SUBJECT TO DEBATE
German Party Politics: Color Them Blurry
Katha Pollitt : Leftist parties in Germany offer a range of choices but no cohesive challenge to the right.
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LOOKOUT
Obama's Bad Influence
Naomi Klein : Just because the United States is trying to be a global team player again doesn't mean the game gets better rules.
Crossword
Web
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Why the Health Insurance Excise Tax Is a Bad Idea
Steve Early & Rand Wilson : Max Baucus's scheme to tax the benefits of workers slightly better off--so revenue can be raised for private insurance subsidies--is a lose-lose proposition.
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Pelosi Pushes Public Option
Lindsay Beyerstein : A Congressional Budget Office report suggesting that a robust public option would actually cut the deficit seems to have lit a fire under Speaker Pelosi.
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More OutrAIGe
Greg Kaufmann : Nightmare on Wall Street continues--come March 2010, AIG plans on upping the bonuses for its Financial Products division to nearly $200 million, bringing the total to $426 million since December 2008.
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Can We Turn Pain to Power in the Congo?
GRIT TV : More than 5 million have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and violence against women is so common that it's been called femicide-genocide. What can we here in the US do about it?
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TruthDig
Zooming In on the Year's Biggest Hoax
Robert Scheer : If we could get one of the banking lobbyists to float a duct-taped flying saucer balloon, Wolf Blitzer might cover the real hoax.
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A Witness to Total War
Daniel Eagan : When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, the only neutral filmmaker in the country was Julien Bryan. His round-the-clock footage of Warsaw's destruction, assembled in Siege, is now again on view.
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Lessons From the Long War and a Blowback World
Tom Engelhardt : Will today's US-armed ally be tomorrow's enemy?
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'War on Terror' II
Julian Sanchez : Obama makes reassuring noises about constraining executive power and protecting civil liberties, but then adopts whatever appalling policy Bush put in place.
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The Return of 'The Rock' Obama
Saturday Night Live : President Obama gets really tough with Senators McConnell, Baucus and Snowe in this Incredible Hulk-inspired sketch.
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Happy Days?
Katrina vanden Heuvel : Happy days are here again--if you're Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase.
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A Female Economics Laureate: Why Only Now?
Sarah Stodola : The first female winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics serves as both a landmark and an alarming reflection of the limited role of women in the physical sciences.
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Nice Work If You Can Get It
William Greider : Some public servants collect their reward after leaving government. Gene Sperling, adviser to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, earned his before.
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Slide Show: Gay Rights Now
As we round out 2009, The Nation highlights the successes, failures and possibilities of the gay rights movement.
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Children of the Occupation
Andrea D'Cruz : Hundreds of Palestinian children are imprisoned in Israeli jails every year. Their story, overlooked in recent media reports, tells the true cost of the occupation.
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