Political Analysis

2009

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  You don't have to go to Copenhagen to join the activists racing against the ticking environmental bomb.

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  "Tobin Tax" on the table; Palestinian Authority in peril; predictable Islamophobia after the Fort Hood shootings.

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  States sound off for instant runoff voting; activists unite for the International Day of Climate Action; and we remember an American radical who fought the "good fight" against fascism in Spain.

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  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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  On healthcare, Representative Grayson lands a punch; momentum against "don't ask, don't tell"; Obama goes weak on press freedom; Greece votes socialist as Europe trends right.

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  Activism against Afghanistan escalation, the death of Texas liberal Don Yarborough, a bailout for students

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  Panic and silence greet the release of the UN Human Rights Council report on Gaza; the FCC backs net neutrality.

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  Norwegians vote for "social-democratic paradise;" Rep. Joe Wilson's lie turns lucrative; why are all the taxpayers at the 9/12 march white?

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  Help for healthcare heroes; torture at the top.

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  A tribute to Sidney Zion; Obama's former doctor enters the healthcare debate; Henry Louis Gates Jr. wows the crowd.

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  Prison-based gerrymandering; a college journalist's big scoop about Bill Clinton; our day in court

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• Debate: Is the US a Socialist Nation?

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  The Nation's Chris Hayes and National Review's Reihan Salam debate whether the US is now a socialist nation...and whether that is a good thing.

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  JoAnn Wypijewski : Marriage & Divorce

  The latest political sex scandal isn't a scandal at all but a circumstance as old and common as time.

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  The Nation and the NAACP; democracy derailed in Honduras; Sotomayor and Ricci

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  Sebastian Jones on healthcare reform, Nisa Qazi on refugees in Pakistan, John Nichols on NOW's Kim Gandy

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  John Nichols on antiwar Democrats, Corbin Hiar on Greenland and global warming, The Nation Associates on Ning