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Feature
Green Energy: A Special Issue
How we can break our addiction to oil. With contributions from Michael T. Klare, Christian Parenti, Mark Hertsgaard and Christine MacDonald.
The Editors
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Clean, Green, Safe and Smart
Why the United States needs a new national energy policy.
Michael T. Klare
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The Big Green Buy
How Obama can use the government’s purchasing power to spark the clean-energy revolution.
Christian Parenti
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Kicking the Oil Habit
Louisiana can’t go cold turkey: it can only wean itself off oil through an orderly transition.
Mark Hertsgaard
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The Spill’s Silver Lining?
The BP disaster could be the catalyst for an invigorated environmental movement.
Christine MacDonald
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How to Survive the Crisis (Organize!)
At the US Social Forum, activists discuss how to meet basic needs—and take on the system.
Ben Ehrenreich
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The Trouble With Amazon
It’s big, cheap and convenient. But does the online bookseller really serve readers’ interests?
Colin Robinson
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Editorial
Deficits of Mass Destruction
The Iraq War was never really about weapons of mass destruction, and the fight against the deficit is not actually about fiscal responsibility. It’s a shell game for gutting the welfare state and redistributing wealth upward.
Chris Hayes
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Tea Partyers in Wonderland
Who really wins out when the government’s spending? Often, it’s the rich.
Barbara Koeppel
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Noted.
Liliana Segura on the Oscar Grant verdict, John Nichols on real financial reform and Paul Buhle on Harvey Pekar
The Editors
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Ten Things to Foster Socially Responsible Corporations
Multinational corporations can be a force for good in the global economy. Here’s how.
The Nation
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Column
Grisly Mamas
Conservative housewives have the same desire for power and respect that liberal women do. No wonder women comprise half of the Tea Party movement.
Katha Pollitt
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Katrina Is Not a Metaphor
When we reduce the devastating hurricane to fiction—even really good fiction—we risk making it little more than a trope.
Melissa Harris-Perry
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Books & the Arts
The Trouble With Amazon
It’s big, cheap and convenient. But does the online bookseller really serve readers’ interests?
Colin Robinson
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Restless Confederates
Two new books argue that the South’s slaveholding republic faced a crisis of legitimacy from the outset.
Eric Foner
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A Forest of Fathers
Did liberal principles or sectarian impulses mobilize Lebanon’s "Cedar Revolution" to protest against the Syrian regime?
Elias Muhanna
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