February 13, 2012 Issue
Cover art by: Cover photo by Eduardo Luzzatti Buyé, design by Milton Glaser Incorporated
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Feature
An Iraq Vet’s Journey From Wall Street to OWS
Zuccotti Park was not my first occupation. But it showed me the need to live up to our values.
Derek McGee
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Looking Back at the UFW, a Union With Two Souls
A Q&A with Frank Bardacke, whose new book Trampling Out the Vintage complicates the legend and legacy of Cesar Chavez.
Gabriel Thompson
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‘The Elders’ Take a Stand Against Child Marriage
These ten leaders are using their wealth of knowledge to attack a root cause of social dysfunction.
Barbara Crossette
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New Hope for New Haven, Connecticut
A progressive labor slate has won a historic legislative victory, overturning the traditional Democratic machine.
Paul Bass
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Editorial
Obama Takes a Populist Stand in His State of the Union
But Washington won’t follow through unless the grassroots insurgency of Wisconsin and Occupy grows.
The Editors
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What If ‘Citizens United’ Actually United the Citizens?
A week full of progressive victories—SOPA, Keystone and Wisconsin recall efforts—bring great reminders about the long game of organizing.
Ilyse Hogue
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Noted.
George Zornick on Keystone pipeline politics, Liliana Segura on Alabama’s death row “mailroom mix-up,” Daniel Denvir on Pennsylvania’s fracking fights, Dave Zirin on Muhammad Ali at 70
Various Contributors
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Wisconsin Rises Up Against Walker
What does democracy look like? Try a grassroots campaign organized by ordinary citizens to recall their union-busting governor.
John Nichols
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Our Student Prize-winners
Congratulations to the winners of The Nation‘s sixth annual Student Writing Contest.
The Nation
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Column
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Of Semites and ‘Anti-Semites’
In today’s media climate, it’s much easier to smear critics of the push for war on Iran as “anti-Semites” than to deal honestly with the facts.
Eric Alterman
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Beware Celebrations of Republican Disarray
The populism of the right is coalescing around the race-bating extremism of Newt Gingrich—and Citizens United is greasing the wheels.
Melissa Harris-Perry
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Books & the Arts
Looking Back at the UFW, a Union With Two Souls
A Q&A with Frank Bardacke, whose new book Trampling Out the Vintage complicates the legend and legacy of Cesar Chavez.
Gabriel Thompson
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A Spoonful of Sugar: On the Affordable Care Act
Obama and America’s hundred-year struggle over healthcare reform.
Bernard Avishai
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The Foundation Business: On Olivier Zunz
There’s more to American nonprofits than the success of wealthy donors and their large foundations.
Pablo Eisenberg
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Letters
Letters
The dole, relief, welfare, safety net…; spying on Eleanor Roosevelt; pipeline whack-a-mole
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