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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

The Silence of MoveOn The Silence of MoveOn

MoveOn, once the most powerful grassroots peace organization, has rendered its members voiceless on the expanding wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan. And that silence sends a message...

May 26, 2009 / Feature / Tom Hayden

The Nation/Campus Progress Youth Journalism Conference The Nation/Campus Progress Youth Journalism Conference

A roster of terrific journalists will be on hand on July 9 in DC.

May 26, 2009 / StudentNation / The Nation

Steve Earle’s Labor of Love Steve Earle’s Labor of Love

The music on Townes, Steve Earle's tribute to Townes Van Zandt, is simple and literally homespun. There is sinew to this music, and blood in the words.

May 26, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Charles P. Pierce

Chop Shops Chop Shops

Over a decade ago, in his novel The Ax, Donald E. Westlake captured the ruthlessness and anomie of economic Darwinism.

May 26, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Charles Taylor

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