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Hetero Hetero

Heteronyms in wordplay and in clues

Aug 16, 2012 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

Three Reasons the Internet Backlash Worked Against Progressive Car Insurance Three Reasons the Internet Backlash Worked Against Progressive Car Insurance

An insurance giant battles the Internet.

Aug 16, 2012 / Ari Melber

How the Supreme Court Came to Embrace Strip Searches for Trivial Offenses How the Supreme Court Came to Embrace Strip Searches for Trivial Offenses

The Fourth Amendment was designed to guard against arbitrary governmental authority. That shield has been shattered, leaving our liberty and personal integrity subject to the whi...

Aug 16, 2012 / Herman Schwartz

WATCH: Video Chat on Voting Rights with Brentin Mock, Aura Bogado and Ari Berman WATCH: Video Chat on Voting Rights with Brentin Mock, Aura Bogado and Ari Berman

Replay our live video chat on voting rights with Nation reporters Brentin Mock, Aura Bogado and Ari Berman here.

Aug 16, 2012 / The Nation

How Not to Reconstruct Iraq, Afghanistan—or America How Not to Reconstruct Iraq, Afghanistan—or America

A guide to disaster at home and abroad.

Aug 16, 2012 / Peter Van Buren

Paul Ryan Doesn’t Follow Ayn Rand on Civil Liberties Paul Ryan Doesn’t Follow Ayn Rand on Civil Liberties

For all his talk of being guided by the libertarian philosopher, his record is weak on individual freedom. 

Aug 15, 2012 / Ben Adler

The GOP’s Will to Fantasy The GOP’s Will to Fantasy

Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan as running mate is another development in a long-term party trend: the triumph of ideology over reality.

Aug 15, 2012 / Jonathan Schell

Chilean Students Occupy High Schools Chilean Students Occupy High Schools

Chilean student activists have taken control of at least seven schools in the country’s capital, following street protests that saw 75 arrested and three city buses burned.

Aug 15, 2012 / StudentNation / Angus Johnston

Occupy Wall Street: Year One Occupy Wall Street: Year One

On September 15, the movement will re-assemble where it was born for three days of education, celebration and renewed resistance to economic injustice with permitted convergences ...

Aug 15, 2012 / Peter Rothberg

Partisan Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Wrongly Upheld by Court

Partisan Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Wrongly Upheld by Court Partisan Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Wrongly Upheld by Court

A Pennsylvania Republican judge refuses to block the state's unjust, unnecessary and discriminatory voter ID law.

Aug 15, 2012 / Ari Berman

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