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February 8, 2010 Issue
Sasha Abramsky on solutions for California, Calvin Trillin on Robertson and Limbaugh, and a poem by Amina Saïd.
Cover art by: Cover: military bases where the United States has leasing rights or, in the case of Guantánamo, Puerto Rico and Honduras, a long-term presence. Research & original design by Grace Livingstone, map design by Lloyd Miller, cover design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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Editorial
The first casualty of the president's political debacle will likely be Timothy Geithner, the severely over-confident treasury secretary well-known as a lapdog of Wall Street.
William Greider
Like the terrorist, the sex offender is a new category of human being.
JoAnn Wypijewski
In this moment of death and destruction, we should not turn away.
Amy Wilentz
For much of Haiti's existence, foreign powers have used debt not just to control but to plunder it.
The Editors
What the wake-up call is really telling us.
The Editors
Column
The state of the union is just miserable, no matter how President Obama sugarcoats it.
Robert Scheer
The Supreme Court will soon tell the NFL whether it can knock out competition by cutting deals as a single entity.
Dave Zirin and Jeremiah Tittle
How far have women come if a country like Canada permits a father to imprison his daughter in the cage of Saudi laws?
Katha Pollitt
Feature
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was summoned to testify before the House yesterday to answer two questions: why did he sign off on AIG paying full value on insurance for bad as...
Greg Kaufmann
As part of an attempt to frame the surge as an important move towards negotiations with the Taliban, NATO countries are set to contribute 7,000 soldiers for the Afghanistan war.
Tom Hayden
We asked our readers to submit their own high and low points of President Obama's first year.
The Nation
In the past two days, both Defense Secretary Robert Gates and a Pakistani senior minister have confirmed that Blackwater is operating in Pakistan.
Jeremy Scahill
Among the dead in Haiti are the UN workers who were trying to make the nation a better place.
Dan Bischoff
Confident in the long-term impact of his policy decisions, Obama rarely gets flustered by short-term shifts in political fortune.
Sasha Abramsky
As GM shutters a plant, an Ohio city in decline struggles to imagine a future.
Christopher Phelps
A growing number of Californians are organizing to develop solutions.
Sasha Abramsky
Savage budget cuts and political dysfunction are tearing California's social infrastructure apart.
Sasha Abramsky
The Pentagon has a new Monroe Doctrine.
Greg Grandin
Books & the Arts
Like the terrorist, the sex offender is a new category of human being.
JoAnn Wypijewski
The first decade of filmmaking belonged to one woman alone: Alice Guy Blaché.
Jana Prikryl
If love has been exhausted as a literary theme, has it vanished from our experience of life as well?
Miriam Markowitz
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