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Feature
Conyers Responds to Vigilante Revelations
Rep. John Conyers expressed concern and a California activist group called for investigations of vigilante violence in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
A.C. Thompson
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Reading in an Age of Depression
An editor ponders the publishing industry meltdown–and the precarious future of books.
Tom Engelhardt
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The Prophet
Howard Dean’s fifty-state strategy remade the Democratic Party. What comes next?
Ari Berman
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Body of Evidence
Did New Orleans police play a role in the grisly death of Henry Glover?
A.C. Thompson
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Katrina’s Hidden Race War
White vigilante justice tore through New Orleans after the storm. But no official investigation has shed light on the violence.
A.C. Thompson
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Editorial
Obama’s Hawk
When Obama needs a hammer, National Security Adviser James Jones will provide one.
Bob Dreyfuss
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Throwing Good Money…
Instead of facilitating mergers, we should be reregulating the banking industry and enforcing real transparency.
Nomi Prins
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Noted.
An award for Nation reporter Mohamad Bazzi, a detention forNation board member Richard Falk.
The Editors
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Katrina’s Untold Story
Hysteria over looters in the storm-ravaged city had grave unintended consequences. Justice must be done.
The Editors
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Dumping on Detroit
GOP lawmakers are taking aim at autoworkers but letting overpaid CEOs off the hook.
The Editors
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Column
The Fed Makes Money
Banks have stopped lending money, so the Federal Reserve is printing more. That’s the wrong way to resolve our economic crisis.
Nicholas von Hoffman
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A Woman Against the System
Extinguishing race as a meaningful category demands we get rid of the racism that gives it meaning.
Gary Younge
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‘Tis the Season to Be Generous
Ten great groups that help people who are worse off than you are.
Katha Pollitt
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‘A Giant Ponzi Scheme’
What separates Madoff’s Ponzi scheme from the follies of the bailed-out banks, and how is Blagojevich’s pay-to-play any different from standard political fundraising?
Alexander Cockburn
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The People in Charge
The people in charge of the bailout attempts
Now constantly change how the effort is skewed.
They’re titans of Wall Street and finance and such.Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
Reading in an Age of Depression
An editor ponders the publishing industry meltdown–and the precarious future of books.
Tom Engelhardt
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Partisans of Oblivion: A Situationist Novel
Michèle Bernstein’s Situationist novel explores a Paris hovering between Old World and New Wave.
Joshua Clover
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Between the Dead and the Living: Jack Spicer’s Second Life
A new collection of poems by Jack Spicer returns one of the great American visionaries to print.
Barry Schwabsky
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Ives’s Ears: Charles Ives Reconsidered
In songs, symphonies and sonatas, Charles Ives furnished America’s musical past with a future.
David Schiff
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Death at One’s Elbow: Derek Raymond’s Factory Novels
Margaret Thatcher is never named in Derek Raymond’s Factory novels, but her shadow falls over them.
Charles Taylor
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Letters
Russia Coverage: The ‘New York Times’ Responds
Standards Editor Craig Whitney issued this response to questions posed by The Nation about its coverage of the Russia-Georgia conflict in South Ossetia.
The Nation
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