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Feature
Rebalancing Drug Policy
A special Nation forum, with contributions from Ethan Nadelmann, Marc Mauer, Bruce Western, Tracy Velázquez, David Cole and Laura Carlsen.
Various Contributors
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Beyond the Fair Sentencing Act
Congress’s vote to scale back mandatory sentences for federal crack cocaine offenses was a watershed in the long campaign for better drug policy.
Marc Mauer
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The Verdict on Drug Courts
Drug courts have helped some addicts recover. But they may be delaying expansion of treatment programs that will best reduce harms from addiction.
Tracy Velázquez
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Restoring Lost Liberties
The drug war has been waged not only on traffickers and users but on liberty and equality.
David Cole
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A New Model for Mexico
The problem with the drug war in Mexico is not that it’s unfunded. It’s unwinnable.
Laura Carlsen
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Altered State: California’s Pot Economy
Despite the defeat of Proposition 19, growers in California are expanding a profitable system for cultivating pot.
Sasha Abramsky
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Budding Prospects: Youth Activists Push Marijuana Reform
Fueled by serious funds, young advocates of legalization are poised for big gains.
Aaron Houston
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Obama’s Drug War
The administration is promoting failed law enforcement programs as economic stimulus.
Michelle Alexander
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As Juárez Falls
The killing in Juárez bears less resemblance to warfare between cartels than to criminal anarchy.
Ed Vulliamy
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Editorial
First, They Came for WikiLeaks. Then…
WikiLeaks has embraced the ethics that guide traditional news outlets’ disclosure of secrets. It should be afforded the same protections.
The Editors
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Tax Cuts Forever?
Republicans have spent their postelection victory lap fearmongering over the deficit. But now they’ve insisted all Bush tax cuts be extended, at great price to the national debt.
Chris Hayes
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Noted.
Liza Featherstone on the class action gender discrimination suit against Wal-Mart; John Nichols on net neutrality
Various Contributors
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WikiLeaking Covert Wars
The latest WikiLeaks dump has corroborated, in part, what sources recently told The Nation about covert military actions in over seventy-five countries.
Jeremy Scahill
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GOP Monkey-Wrench Gang
If Obama is looking for a reason to scale back his foreign policy ambitions, the GOP takeover of the House is the perfect excuse.
Bob Dreyfuss
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Column
Lessons From WikiLeaks
The Internet is critically vulnerable to capricious government shutdown.
Alexander Cockburn
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Books & the Arts
The Great Squid Hunt: On Matt Taibbi
In Griftopia Matt Taibbi argues that America has been corrupted by the merger of crime and policy, of stealing and government.
Chris Lehmann
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Take the Back Seat: On Chinese Consumerism
Can the world sustain a country the size of China with an appetite for the good things in life on par with America’s?
Richard McGregor
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Kilito’s Way: On Abdelfattah Kilito
In The Clash of Images Abdelfattah Kilito creates a touching portrait of a young man coming of age in French-occupied Morocco.
Laila Lalami
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