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May 27, 2009 / Eric Alterman, D.D. Guttenplan, Our Readers, Karen Rothmyer, and Michelle Orange
Colin Powell and Rush Limbaugh Battle for the Soul of the Republican Party Colin Powell and Rush Limbaugh Battle for the Soul of the Republican Party
Fellowship of the ring.
May 27, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin
i am enCentering the amen New i am enCentering the amen New
for Peter Gizzi crush tamarind and the brown thirst of Quivira the hollow sound of the silence of travail the tipp iron toe of aventura coronado . x -plore for the first time like in imagen childhood the time of the world of the mesa. but this one is "real" the opponents are vivid & feather'd & red not one of these is yr father here the world that we thought of as round after all becomes arid & flat in its trail full of deep stony echoes & the steep sound of phonemes as if God is a well where there is no language of water. no meaning of silver of mineral flood that we know in our langurous rivers . but here is only the archer wind . is this why we are hearin feathers? . the future sits across from us squat & vivid on a burn -ing horse. not a cross. w/its arrows there are no orchards here. no wine no other kind of time for these sorrows
May 27, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Kamau Brathwaite
The Case for Nuclear Abolition The Case for Nuclear Abolition
The Nation's Jonathan Schell has spent the better part of a enormously productive career making the case for the abolition of nuclear weapons. The new president seems more open ...
May 27, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
What’s Next For The LGBT Equality Movement? What’s Next For The LGBT Equality Movement?
The Nation's Richard Kim joins a panel discussion on the impact of Prop 8 in California being upheld and more.
May 27, 2009 / GRITtv
Judge Sotomayor’s Diabetes: Not a Weakness But a Strength Judge Sotomayor’s Diabetes: Not a Weakness But a Strength
There is little doubt that Federal Appeals Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor, when and if she is confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice, will be a role model. As the first Latina on the...
May 27, 2009 / John Nichols
Prussia on the Mediterranean? Prussia on the Mediterranean?
It is an assumption almost universally acknowledged among the liberal American intelligentsia that while the Israeli occupation is repressive and abhorrent, Israel itself is an ope...
May 27, 2009 / Roane Carey
California Budget Blues California Budget Blues
If Citigroup is too big to fail, isn't the state of California? How the national economy can snap back to health if the federal government refuses to help?
May 27, 2009 / Column / Robert Scheer
Remembering Amos Elon Remembering Amos Elon
The world of letters lost an inimitable voice on Monday, when the journalist and historian Amos Elon died in Italy, at the age of eighty-two. For decades, Elon's stylish essays gr...
May 27, 2009 / Eyal Press
Celebrating Sotomayor and Mourning Prop 8 Celebrating Sotomayor and Mourning Prop 8
Tuesday was an emotional day for the left. In the morning President Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court. It was welcome news for those ...
May 27, 2009 / Melissa Harris-Perry