February 14, 2011 Issue
Cover art by: Cover photo by Mike Segar/Reuters, design by Milton Glaser Incorporated
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Feature
Boom Town and Bust City: A Tale of Two New Yorks
Wall Street is rolling in cash again, but the rest of the city is still stuck in the Great Recession.
Lizzy Ratner
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Stockton Goes Bust
In California’s Central Valley, the collapse of the housing bubble is causing acute misery.
Sasha Abramsky
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Goldstone’s Legacy for Israel
The Goldstone Report is a fair-minded and disturbing document—which is precisely why the Israeli strategy since its publication has been to talk about everything except what’s in it.
Naomi Klein
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The Return of the Culture Wars
As before, hypocrites are lining their coffers by pandering to ignorance and xenophobia.
Doug Harvey
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Editorial
Winning the Future?
Was Obama’s appeal to US competitiveness just about beating the Chinese and Indians—or doing right by Americans?
The Editors
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GOP Fires at the Pentagon
Among Republicans, a civil war has broken out over defense spending.
Bob Dreyfuss
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Noted.
John Nichols on Keith Olbermann, JoAnn Wypejewski on photographer Milton Rogovin
Various Contributors
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‘Nation’ Notes
We have a new cover design, by Milton Glaser and his team, and a new poetry editor, Jordan Davis.
The Editors
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Column
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Politics and the Pleasure Principle
Faced with bitter circumstances, we gain a lot in remembering to have fun.
Melissa Harris-Perry
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Books & the Arts
The Return of the Culture Wars
As before, hypocrites are lining their coffers by pandering to ignorance and xenophobia.
Doug Harvey
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The Weasel’s Tooth: On W.B. Yeats
W.B. Yeats’s poems on Ireland contemplate failures: not of poetry but of public life in all its forms.
Stephen Burt
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Shelf Life
Merrill Gilfillan’s The Bark of the Dog and The Warbler Road; Tony Judt’s The Memory Chalet.
John Palattella
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The Ballad of John and J.D.: On John Lennon and J.D. Salinger
Mark David Chapman was carrying a copy of The Catcher in the Rye when he shot John Lennon. The murder was a collision of cultures.
Charles Taylor
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Letters
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Crossword