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Buchanan Breaks Ranks (Presidential Election 2000, Religion, Parties, Politics, Society)

In Washington, a city in which (to borrow a phrase from Virginia Woolf) all is gossip, corruption and chatter, the end-of-summer buzz has been about Pat Buchanan and whether he'll bolt the Republic

Doug Ireland and Micah L. Sifry
It's Time for Realism (Drug War and Drug Policy, Society)

Follow these links for the other articles in this forum: reponses by Peter Kornbluh, Mike Gray and Elliott Currie--and Massing's concluding thoughts.

Michael Massing
Life of a Scandal (Drug War and Drug Policy, Society)

In mid-October 1996, two months after the publication of Gary Webb's series "Dark Alliance" in the San Jose Mercury News, an extraordinary town meeting took place in Compton, California, o

Peter Kornbluh
Perils of Prohibition (Drug War and Drug Policy, Society)

Follow these links for the other articles in this forum: the original article by Michael Massing, and reponses by Peter Kornbluh and Elliott Currie--and Massing's concluding thoughts.

Mike Gray
Yes, Treatment, But... (Drug War and Drug Policy, Society)

Follow these links for the other articles in this forum: the original article by Michael Massing, and reponses by Peter Kornbluh andMike Gray--and Massing's concluding thoughts.

Elliott Currie
Response (Drug War and Drug Policy, Society)

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Michael Massing
An Old City Seeks a New Model (Healthcare Policy, Drug War and Drug Policy, Society)

In early December 1984, an undercover police officer named Marcellus Ward met with a pair of heroin dealers above a candy store in southwest Baltimore.

Joshua Wolf Shenk
Does Europe Do It Better? (Drug War and Drug Policy, Regions and Countries, Society)

Listen to a debate among drug policy advocates and you're likely to hear impassioned claims about the brilliant success (or dismal failure) of more "liberal" approaches in certain European countr

Robert J. MacCoun and Peter Reuter
George Soros's Long Strange Trip (Drug War and Drug Policy, Society)

Research assistance: David Levinson Wilk.

Russ Baker
Marijuana Made Easy (Health and Disease, Drug War and Drug Policy, Society)

For more than half a century, the US government has maintained a hard line on marijuana, denying that the plant has any medical value at all.

Cynthia Cotts

Blogs

Help Protect Incarcerated Queer Youth
Peter Rothberg

Tell your state legislators that the horrific violence against queer youth in prison must be addressed.

July 12, 2010
This Week At TheNation.com: Reflections on Lebron, plus two new videos and an event in New York
Katrina vanden Heuvel

Reflections on Lebron. Plus: See me in New York on Tuesday. 

 

July 10, 2010
Obama and DOMA: Will the President Do the Right Thing?
John Nichols

A court ruling rejects the Defense of Marriage Act as an affront to the Constitution. Now the question is whether the president and his justice department will defend a bad law.

July 9, 2010
Slacker Friday
Eric Alterman

A recap of the week in politics and media, with Palin, Weigel and beetles.

July 9, 2010
Courting King Lebron James
Nation in the News

LeBron James's relocation to Miami is bad for everyone besides ESPN, Dave Zirin tells Chris Hayes on The Rachel Maddow Show.

July 9, 2010
Lebron James vs. Dan Gilbert: Who Really Killed Cleveland?
The Notion

Who's the bad sport—Lebron James or Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert, CEO of the subprime lender Quicken Loans?

July 9, 2010
DAYBOOK for Friday: Goodbye DOMA and Lebron, Hello Stewart and Coulter
Greg Mitchell
July 9, 2010
Texas Fails High School
StudentNation

Without accurate reports and transparent outcomes, the urgent need to implement high school reforms could pass without notice.

July 9, 2010
Obama, At Length
Eric Alterman

On the EPA, Clint Eastwood and German soccer.

July 8, 2010
Facing Up to Violence Against LGBT Youth Behind Bars
Nation in the News

Daniel Redman appears on The Nation on Grit TV to describe how the juvenile justice system sends queer youth to prison in disproportionate numbers, fails to protect them from violence and discrimination while they're inside and condones attempts to turn them straight.

July 8, 2010
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