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Feature
Who Will Pay to Fix Louisiana?
Devastation wrought by the BP spill is in headlines daily. But decades of oil drilling in Louisiana have done far more indelible damage.
Oliver Houck
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A Hole in the World
The BP disaster reveals the risks in imagining that we have complete command over nature.
Naomi Klein
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US Hikers Were Seized in Iraq: WikiLeaks Document Corroborates Nation Report
A military report released by WikiLeaks confirms: Iranian forces crossed the border to arrest the American hikers.
Babak Sarfaraz
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Editorial
US Funds the Taliban, II
A Congressional investigation confirms what The Nation reported: US taxpayer funds are paying off Afghan warlords.
Aram Roston
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New Energy in DC?
As he pushes climate and energy legislation, will Obama keep up the tough talk?
The Editors
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Noted.
Robert Dreyfuss on McChrystal’s firing, John Nichols on McCaskill’s push for transparency and David Cole on the Supreme Court ruling on material support to terrorist organizations
The Editors
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Bloody Sunday’s Architects
Lord Saville’s Bloody Sunday report clarifies who shot whom. But the darker truth about the role of Britain’s secret service is unexplained.
Peter Pringle
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Column
A Disaster That Could Change Everything
Will the BP spill prove to be Judgment Day for the decades of growing corporate rule over government?
Alexander Cockburn
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Books & the Arts
As Big as Mount Ararat
Orhan Pamuk may be the face that Turkish literature turns to the West, but the novelist Yashar Kemal is its conscience and heart.
Marc Edward Hoffman
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Bierced
Ours is an age of the unexpected, the extraordinary—the uncanny. What better time to resurrect the stories of Ambrose Bierce?
Victor LaValle
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Cornered
Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s 12th & Delaware; Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger’s Restrepo; Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me; Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right
Stuart Klawans
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