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ROC vs. the NRA

Hit hard by the recession, America’s restaurant workers are fighting for a fair deal.

Spencer Woodman

Retaking Rio

With the Olympics coming to town, the state seeks to reclaim the favelas.

Christian Parenti

Aiding the Insurgency

A celebrated US program designed to employ Iraqis is called a “sham” that fed the resistance.

Luke Mogelson

Shakeup in the UK

Nick Clegg has taken the Liberal Democrats into government with the Tories, serving as deputy prime minister to David Cameron, a politician he has called "the con man of British politics." Where did it all go wrong?

Maria Margaronis and D.D. Guttenplan

Judging Elena Kagan

Obama’s Supreme Court nominee should be "borked."

The Editors

Pakistan’s Challenge

America’s Pakistan problem is getting worse, not better, on President Obama’s watch.

Mosharraf Zaidi

Noted.

Spring laurels for The Nation, plus Peter Weiss on Rhonda Copeland, and John Nichols on David Obey.

The Nation

America’s Radical Roots

American radicalism has drawn its inspiration from the nation’s revolutionary founding claims. Yet to refer to someone as radical is to risk offense.

Timothy Patrick McCarthy and John McMillian

Britain Braces for the Shocks to Come

The Tories want to make budget cuts fast and deep.

Gary Younge

Believing in Justice, Blaming the Victim

Those who most strongly believe that the world is fair are most likely to reconcile their distress about unearned suffering by blaming the victims.

Melissa Harris-Perry

What Ever Happened to Welfare Mothers?

If the boom years failed to lift poor mothers into the middle class, how are they faring now that the middle class is becoming the new poor?

Katha Pollitt

The Sad Tale of Gordon Brown, Starting With
 the First Debate

The man doesn’t smile.

Calvin Trillin

Aug. 5

Eléna Rivera

In Our Orbit: What Was Lost

Kai Bird’s Crossing Mandelbaum Gate is a meditation on the collective failure of Israelis and Palestinians to reconcile their histories of loss and victimhood.

Frederick Deknatel

The Enhancement of the Senses

In The Age of Wonder, Richard Holmes lucidly charts how the Romantics were as transfixed by the failures of science as they were by its bright accomplishments.

Paula Findlen

Mind the Enlightenment

Jonathan Israel’s epic defense of "Radical Enlightenment" has the dogmatic ring of a profession of faith.

Samuel Moyn

Letters to the Editor

Letters published in the May 31, 2010, issue of The Nation.

Our Readers

Puzzle No. 2199

This puzzle originally appeared in the May 28, 1988, issue.

Frank W. Lewis