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Feature
Sri Lanka Wins a War and Diminishes Democracy
In its 62 years of independence, Sri Lanka has never had a better chance than it has now to stamp out the last fires of ethnic hatred, violence and mindless chauvinisms that have left over 80,000 people dead in civil wars across the country.
Barbara Crossette
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How Sustainable Is ‘Socially Responsible’ Mining?
In the ten years since the mining industry has gone “responsible,” have things really improved for local communities–or has the industry’s PR just gotten better?
Matt Kennard
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Nation Contributors on Love: 144 Years of Romance and Skepticism
Over fourteen decades, The Nation has criticized, supported, debated, satirized and glorified what Valentine’s Day stands for: love, sex and marriage.
Various Contributors
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The New Deal in Reverse
How could Barack Obama have ended up, one year later, where Franklin Delano Roosevelt began?
Steve Fraser
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The Hero of the Orange Revolution Poisons Ukraine
No politician has ever suffered a more humiliating rejection than the former leader of Ukraine’s Orange Revolution and its current sitting president, Viktor Yushchenko.
Mark Ames
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The Cleveland Model
Thoroughly green and worker-owned, co-ops are a vibrant response to economic distress.
Gar Alperovitz, Thad Williamson and Ted Howard
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‘We Won’t Bow Down’
The joy and community found in Mardi Gras offer an antidote to defeatism and despair.
Rebecca Solnit
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The Media-Lobbying Complex
The talking heads of cable news are leading double lives as paid lobbyists for corporations.
Sebastian Jones
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Editorial
Torture Lawyers on Trial?
Spain is leading the charge to criminally investigate US government officials over torture.
David Cole
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A 2010 Elections Primer
Seven ways to frame the 2010 fight for Congress and the statehouses.
John Nichols
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Tea Party Hypocrisy
Tea partyers’ enthusiasm may be genuine, but let’s not forget: this is a right-wing reactionary movement.
The Editors
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Noted.
D.D. Guttenplan on the end of Thatcherism, John Nichols on Al Franken’s response to the proposed Comcast/NBC merger.
The Editors
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Column
It’s Greek to Goldman Sachs
“What is this Goldman Sachs and why has it caused us so much grief?” is a question they must be asking in even the most remote of Greek villages, as they are throughout much of this economically troubled world.
Robert Scheer
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Exchange: Katha Pollitt and Alexander Cockburn on the Hispanic Crime Rate
How groundbreaking is research showing that Hispanics have a crime rate comparable to white Americans? Katha Pollitt and Alexander Cockburn debate.
Alexander Cockburn and Katha Pollitt
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Dropping in on the Tea Party
A tour of Tea Party Nation reveals an all-white movement moving further right from their Bush-era social agendas and into a growing anti-establishment populism.
Gary Younge
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Zinn-ophobia at NPR
NPR’s attempt to appease its critics by featuring comment from conservative pundits went a step too far when it let radical right-wing advocate David Horowitz contribute to Howard Zinn’s obituary.
Eric Alterman
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‘Goldman Chief’s $9 Million Bonus Seen by Some as Show of Restraint’
Blankfein’s bonus: too petite?
Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
Nation Contributors on Love: 144 Years of Romance and Skepticism
Over fourteen decades, The Nation has criticized, supported, debated, satirized and glorified what Valentine’s Day stands for: love, sex and marriage.
Various Contributors
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Zinn-ophobia at NPR
NPR’s attempt to appease its critics by featuring comment from conservative pundits went a step too far when it let radical right-wing advocate David Horowitz contribute to Howard Zinn’s obituary.
Eric Alterman
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Not Even Bing’s: On Louis Armstrong
Terry Teachout’s new biography of Louis Armstrong is stuck in the discophile groove.
David Schiff
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The Renunciation Artist: On Leo Tolstoy
The axis of moral struggle, a stroke of salvation–these are the spiritual dimensions of Tolstoy’s late fiction.
William Deresiewicz
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