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All-White Basketball League: Bringing Segregation Back All-White Basketball League: Bringing Segregation Back

If not for the incessant backlash against NBA players, the all-white All-American Basketball Alliance would never have gotten off the ground.

Feb 2, 2010 / Column / Dave Zirin and David J. Leonard

No Defense for This Budget No Defense for This Budget

Deficit hysteria has reached new levels yet where is the attention to anout of control defense budget that is now the largest since World War II? While the Obama Admistration's th...

Feb 2, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Transparency Can Curb Corporate Impact on Elections Transparency Can Curb Corporate Impact on Elections

In the face of a Supreme Court decision that eliminates crucial checks on corporate political spending nationwide, we must demand greater accountability and transparency around h...

Feb 2, 2010 / Bill de Blasio

Hijinks or Undercover Ops? Hijinks or Undercover Ops?

If four politically-motivated young men with left-wing (or Muslim), rather than right-wing ties, broke into the office of a senior Senate Homeland Security Committee member and gai...

Feb 2, 2010 / Laura Flanders

End Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell End Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

We must immediately end the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy and allow gay men and lesbians to serve openly in the armed forces. We must do this because the existing policy...

Feb 2, 2010 / Melissa Harris-Perry

Talking to the Taliban, Again Talking to the Taliban, Again

Is there any chance that the logjam on negotiating an end to the war in Afghanistan is loosening up? So far the United States seems to be taking a hands-off attitude.

Feb 2, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss

General Petraeus, PhD, at the University General Petraeus, PhD, at the University

Gen. David Petraeus pays a visit to Georgetown, where he takes questions but doesn't always answer them.

Feb 1, 2010 / Feature / Norman Birnbaum

Groundhog’s Day Budgeting: Again, Obama Underfunds Job Growth Groundhog’s Day Budgeting: Again, Obama Underfunds Job Growth

The 2009 stimulus bill that was supposed to spur job creation at a sufficient rate to prevent double-digit unemployment might have done so if it had been approved at the level and ...

Feb 1, 2010 / John Nichols

Journalism in 10: The Future of News and Media Journalism in 10: The Future of News and Media

What does the future of journalism look like? What's next for media? The Nation asks a range of journalists and media makers to tell us what they predict.

Feb 1, 2010 / Various Contributors

Howard Zinn speaks into a microphone at the 2009 Sundance Music Festival on January 22, 2009 in Park City, Utah.

Remembering Howard Zinn Remembering Howard Zinn

Friends of The Nation and of Howard Zinn offer recollections of the man, his work, and his impact on thinkers and activists.

Feb 1, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Various Contributors

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