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ActivismDecember 17, 2013
Remembering Delbert Tibbs
After his release from death row for a crime he did not commit, Tibbs found a sense of purpose and community as an anti-death-penalty activist.
Mark Sorkin
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EnvironmentSeptember 21, 2011
The House GOP TRAIN Wreck
House Republicans are launching a frontal assault on environmental regulations.
Mark Sorkin
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EnvironmentDecember 16, 2009
Lessons of Darkness: On Peter Maass
For Peter Maass, oil is not a drug so much as a Pandora’s box. Tap a well and base instincts spew.
Mark Sorkin
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FictionApril 9, 2008
Man Out of Time
In Hari Kunzru’s captivating new novel My Revolutions, a former anti-Vietnam terrorist is dredged up after half a lifetime underground.
Mark Sorkin
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PoliticsSeptember 17, 2007
The March on Jena
Thousands of civil rights activists are heading to Louisiana this week to protest a case of gross injustice–and the system that supports racial inequality across America.
Mark Sorkin
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Non-fictionMay 31, 2007
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Teenage presents a lively but scattershot portrait of youth in the modern era.
Mark Sorkin
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Jails and PrisonsJune 25, 2006
Generation Lockdown
California’s juvenile justice system is broken everywhere you look. An ambitious plan for reform could bring much-needed improvements, but does it go far enough?
Mark Sorkin
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March 30, 2006
Poll Vault
In Conned, Nation reporter Sasha Abramsky sets out to highlight a growing population of disenfranchised Americans.
Mark Sorkin
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Reproductive RightsMarch 9, 2006
Unborn in the USA
In his captivating new book Absolute Convictions, Eyal Press explores the links between his hometown’s post-Vietnam decline and its emergence as a battlefield in the national crusade against abortion.
Mark Sorkin
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Racism and DiscriminationOctober 4, 2005
Bill Bennett’s Abortion Fantasies
What’s really shocking about Bill Bennett’s public fantasies of reducing crime by aborting black babies is the ease with which conservative critics cast lawlessness in racial terms.
Mark Sorkin