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Corrections to the articles "A Letter to the American Left," by Bernard-Henri Lévy and "Exile on K Street," by Jeremy Scahill that were published in the February 20, 2006 issue are presented.

Corrections to articles in previous issues including "Subject to Debate" by Katha Pollitt in the January 16, 2006, Pollitt's column in the January 30, 2006 issue and ¿The New Face of the Campus Left,¿ by Sam Graham-Felsen in the February 13, 2006 issue are presented.

The article looks at the views of Palestinian historian Nur Masalha regarding the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Masalha wrote the book "Expulsion of the Palestinians." Masalha criticized Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his hate speech against Israel. Masalha claims that the Palestinians and the Israelis will eventually have to live together in peace. Masalha also condemns the violence of Israelis against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.

Presents news briefs. Report that an honorary degree was given to historian Howard Zinn from Spelman College; Reference to the book "A People's History of the United States," by Zinn; Report that "The Nation" has won one of the American Bar Association's annual Silver Gavel magazine awards for the issue "Brown at 50," May 3, 2004.

Presents comments related to world politics as of March 21, 2005. Description of the Bankruptcy Reform bill in the U.S. and its potential impact on consumers; Critique of the social and environmental impact of Plan Colombia, an aid program intended to fight illegal drugs and terrorism in Colombia; Criticism for the Fox News Channel for refusing to air a commercial for "The Nation"; Features of an interview with hip-hop historian Jeff Chang.

Presents corrections to articles previously published in "The Nation." "In Radical Matrimony," by Baz Dreisinger, in the March 7, 2005 issue; "Now He Has the Power," by John Nichols, in the March 7, 2005 issue; "The Liberal Media," by Eric Alterman, in the March 14, 2005 issue.

Presents a correction to the article "Cartoon Wars," by Richard Goldstein, which appeared in the February 21, 2005 issue of "The Nation."

Corrects two errors in "The Nation." Assertion that Simon Rosenberg is not a registered lobbyist as suggested in David Sirota's article "Debunking 'Centrism" in the Jan. 3 issue; Misquote in Micah L. Sifty's "The Rise of Open-Source Politics," in the Nov. 22 issue, that was attributed to Christopher Locke.

States 1859 is the date Darwin's "The Origin of Species" was published, which was erroneously printed as 1857 in the Jan. 10/17 article "Stanton's Wisdom," by Vivian Gornick.

The article focuses on the influence of former statesman Henry Kissinger over the United States Council on Foreign Relations. In 2003, Kenneth Maxwell, a historian of Latin America, published a review of Peter Kornbluh's "The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability" in the November/December 2003 issue of "Foreign Affairs," the influential journal of the Council on Foreign Relations. Maxwell's essay enraged two former statesmen with deep connections to the council--Henry Kissinger and his longtime associate William Rogers. On May 13 Maxwell resigned from the council. What triggered Maxwell's resignation was a smoldering exchange with Rogers in "Foreign Affairs"--an exchange, Maxwell insists, that was abruptly curtailed after Kissinger applied direct and indirect pressure on the editor of the journal, James Hoge. Now, after months of silence about that suppressed debate, Maxwell has emerged with a 13,000-word essay about the affair, "The Case of the Missing Letter in Foreign Affairs."