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May 22, 2006 Issue

The Editors remember John Kenneth Galbraith, Ann Jones writes a letter from Afghanistan, four poets win the Discovery/The Nation ’06 P…

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Editorial

Sloppy Seconds

The plagiarism flap over Opal Mehta is essentially a story about clichés and stereotypes passing from one subliterary commercial product to another.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Longtime Nation Associate John Kenneth Galbraith is best remembered not only as a New Dealer, old-line liberal or Keynesian economist but as a contrarian and independent thinker.

The Moussaoui Paradox

Justice triumphed over blood vengeance Wednesday as jurors declined to sentence a marginal 9/11 conspirator to death, while one of the real culprits languishes in a secret prison, ...

May Day, May Day

Despite the loud and determined voice of immigrant communities for fair and just immigration reform, we have yet to see an acceptable proposal from Congress.

Column

The Spook in Your Phone

Gen. Michael Hayden, nominated by President Bush to head the CIA, is the man responsible for the most extensive attack ever on the privacy of US citizens.

Bonding With the Babe

Bashing Barry Bonds has become a national sport, as the flawed slugger nears matching Babe Ruth's record. But hasn't anyone considered the faults of the Babe?

Letters

Feature

FEMA Braces for Another Storm

With hurricane season approaching and another Bush crony at the helm of FEMA, a few restive lawmakers are seeking real reform for the storm-tossed agency. Whether they will succeed...

Forecast for Snow

When government refuses to explain itself, it's up to journalists to discover the truth. As Tony Snow debuts as White House Press Secretary, will answers on Porter Goss be forthcom...

A Hunger for Justice

Twenty-five years ago, IRA prisoner Bobby Sands died after a sixty-six day hunger strike. Today political prisoners from Guantánamo to Iran, Turkey and Eastern Europe con...

People Power In Nepal

The removal of the contemptuous Nepali regime was a type of "people power" absent from Asia and the rest of world for many years, opening dialogue with the Maoist rebels and creati...

Women and Warlords

A policy of "affirmative discrimination" helped put twenty women in the Afghan Parliament, but how can they confront the warlords and criminals who hold most of the power?

Books & the Arts

Bonding With the Babe

Bashing Barry Bonds has become a national sport, as the flawed slugger nears matching Babe Ruth's record. But hasn't anyone considered the faults of the Babe?

Love Letters

Richard Lingeman's Double Lives explores the richness of friendships between such literary lions as Hawthorne and Melville, Hemingway and Fitzgerald, and Kerourac, Ginsberg ...

On the Corner

Times Square may be the most dynamic urban space of the twentieth century, but you wouldn't know it from reading Marshall Berman's On the Town.

On Native Grounds

Alan Taylor's Divided Ground examines how land-grabbing settlers destroyed Indian society and how postrevolutionary politicians speeded their demise.

Sloppy Seconds

The plagiarism flap over Opal Mehta is essentially a story about clichés and stereotypes passing from one subliterary commercial product to another.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Longtime Nation Associate John Kenneth Galbraith is best remembered not only as a New Dealer, old-line liberal or Keynesian economist but as a contrarian and independent thinker.

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