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March 1, 2010 Issue

David Schiff on Terry Teachout’s new Louis Armstrong biography, William Greider on John Logue, and Gar Alperowitz, Ted Howard and Than…

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Editorial

Torture Lawyers on Trial?

Spain is leading the charge to criminally investigate US government officials over torture.

David Cole

A 2010 Elections Primer

Seven ways to frame the 2010 fight for Congress and the statehouses.

John Nichols

Tea Party Hypocrisy

Tea partyers' enthusiasm may be genuine, but let's not forget: this is a right-wing reactionary movement.

The Editors

Noted.

D.D. Guttenplan on the end of Thatcherism, John Nichols on Al Franken's response to the proposed Comcast/NBC merger.

The Editors

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 thi...

Robert Scheer

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

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

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 ...

Eric Alterman

Haiti: A Creditor, Not a Debtor

It is we in the West who owe it reparations.

Naomi Klein

‘Goldman Chief’s $9 Million Bonus Seen by Some as Show of Restraint’

Calvin Trillin

Letters

Our Readers and the Obama Promise
Jeffersonville, Pa.

Our Readers

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 hav...

Barbara Crossette

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

Gaza: Treading on Shards

The people of Gaza know they have been abandoned.

Sara Roy

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

The New Deal in Reverse

How could Barack Obama have ended up, one year later, where Franklin Delano Roosevelt began?

Steve Fraser

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