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Editorial
This Thanksgiving, Republicans Embrace the Politics of Pain
GOP leaders are going to the mat for the wealthy while abandoning those who lost their jobs because of Wall Street’s recklessness.
The Editors
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Time for a Wealth Tax
Instead of cutting benefits for the poor, how about taxing the total household wealth of the rich?
Leon Friedman
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Ten Things You Should Know About Slow
As the holiday rush approaches, take yourself out of the fast lane.
The Nation
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Column
On Condoms, Hope From the Pope
The pope has said both men and women can use condoms to protect themselves from HIV. Can he now say that women can use them to protect themselves from the dangers of pregnancy?
Katha Pollitt
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The Misunderestimation of Sarah Palin
As American life becomes more and more like reality television, could product placement of a candidate become the surest route to the presidency?
Melissa Harris-Perry
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Books & the Arts
Risk the Game: On William James
For William James, all our certitudes depend on the pretense that there are no radical mysteries underlying them.
Marilynne Robinson
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Suitors: On Julia Holmes
Julia Holmes’s Meeks is a novel full of a jittery sadness and an uncontrollable kind of joy.
Aaron Thier
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The Whole Human Mess: On Saul Bellow
Drollery, mordancy, tenderness and soul talk: Saul Bellow's letters are a Saul Bellow novel!
William Deresiewicz
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The Dirty Halo: On Sarah Bernhardt
Robert Gottlieb’s vigorous biography of Sarah Bernhardt shows the actress in all her workaholic, passionate and unsentimental force.
Jana Prikryl
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The Thin Artifact: On Photography and Suffering
Susie Linfield’s The Cruel Radiance is a demanding and flawed attempt to regard the pain of others through photographs.
Frances Richard
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Burning Down the House: On Ed Koch
Ed Koch rebuilt New York City by demolishing its long-running experiments in urban liberalism.
Samuel Zipp
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Letters
The Whole Human Mess: On Saul Bellow
Drollery, mordancy, tenderness and soul talk: Saul Bellow's letters are a Saul Bellow novel!
William Deresiewicz
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