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Feature
Audacity on Trial
Talking union still amounts to a punishable offense in parts of the Old South.
JoAnn Wypijewski
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Dead Reckoning
A world effort to force an end to the US death penalty is gaining strength.
Bruce Shapiro
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What I Voted For
Nader's campaign made a lot of people angry, but his cause is worth the fight.
Tim Robbins
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Big Brother’s Corporate Cousin
High-tech workplace surveillance is the hallmark of a new digital Taylorism.
Christian Parenti
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Is This the New Face of the Democratic Party?
Representative Nancy Pelosi is poised to become Congress's most powerful woman.
John Nichols
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The Student-Labor Union
Only hours into the United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) national conference in Chicago--before half of the participants had even arrived--students were walking the picket line in s
Nicholas Woomer
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Race Matters
At the end of this summer, an event will take place that could change the way the world thinks about one of its most vexing problems--racism.
Alan Jenkins
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Editorial
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Nation Notes
George Fuchs, The Nation's controller since 1995, died recently, far too young. We knew George for his quick check-writing, his help with our taxes, his ironic sense of humor, his love of the New York Giants, his seriocomic administration of The Nation's annual football pool and his inimitable taste in novelty ties, of which he possessed an impressive collection. His favorite was a Dilbert pattern with blue checks. Unforgettable. And so was George.
The Editors
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The Leader of the Last Remaining Superpower Asserts Minimal Qualifications
To those who say he cannot do it,
Who claim his head is filled with suet,
He says that he is plenty able
To deal with issues on the table.
Though he may have no depths to plumb,
He says for sure he isn't dumb.
It's almost more than we could hope:
The President is not a dope.Calvin Trillin
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The Persecution of Wen Ho Lee, Redux
Over the last two years, various government and congressional officials adroitly exploited leaks to the media to defame Wen Ho Lee, a Los Alamos nuclear scientist.
Robert Scheer
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Pity Bush, Gamely Shedding Treaties Like Dandruff
It is time to rally around our President and forego the constant drumbeat of criticism that has been his lot on the world stage ever since he discovered that foreign policy involves issues beyond
Robert Scheer
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