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Feature
Protecting the Rights of Millionaires
By equating money with free speech, is the Supreme Court defending the right of the rich to steal elections?
Laura MacCleery
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Did Race Win the Race for Hillary?
Does living in mixed communities make people less or more vulnerable to campaigning that plays on ethnic and racial divisions?
Gaiutra Bahadur
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Youth Protests Outshine Olympic Torch
Tibetan-led youth groups are proving the power of grassroots organizing with their highly effective Beijing Olympics protests.
Cora Currier
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Ceremonies of the Strange
In this week's episode of our political novella, Congresswoman Kang finds the trail to the truth is more crooked than straight.
Gary Phillips
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Rehabilitation, Resurrected
This year nearly 700,000 inmates in US prisons will be granted their freedom. And in a rare act of bipartisanship, a new law provides millions to rehabilitate them.
David Cole
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Journalists Slam ABC Debate Tactics
In an open letter to ABC News, a group of journalists and media analysts condemns the network's poor handling of the latest Clinton/Obama faceoff.
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Leaving Cheyenne Mountain
Post-cold war America is looking a lot like the former Soviet Union.
William J. Astore
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Pennsylvania’s ‘Obamicans’
Democratic activism and Obama's campaign have turned Doylestown, Pennsylvania, from solid red to purple--maybe even blue.
Ari Berman
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Bowling for Pennsylvania
Can Barack Obama get racially mixed communities in Pennsylvania's small towns to bowl together?
Gaiutra Bahadur
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The Liberation of Reverend Wright
The media's portrayal of Obama's former pastor as racist reflects an ignorance about the black church and its rhetorical traditions.
S. Eudora Smith
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Editorial
Dreaming Obama in North Carolina
Conversations with historian John Hope Franklin and civil rights heroes about race, memory and the possibility of change.
Tom Hayden
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Why Hillary Makes My Wife Scream
By trying to inflict maximum damage on Obama, she's threatening the Democratic Party's chances for the White House. Progressives need to intervene.
Tom Hayden
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Tough Love for Israel
Another Middle East peace conference? Statesmen instead should have the moral and political courage to end the massive hoax the peace process has become.
Henry Siegman
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Nation Note
With this issue The Nation debuts a new feature: "Back Talk," Q&A's with literary, cultural and otherwise notable figures.
the Editors
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Noted.
Frederika Randall on Berlusconi's return, John Nichols on fast-tracking Colombia, Jayati Vora on Patrick Cockburn's Muqtada, Christopher Hayes on the new Israel lobby.
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Seeking Superdelegates
Online activists are shining much-needed light on superdelegates, revealing who they are and how they'll vote--and asking why we need them.
Ari Melber
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KBR’s Rape Problem
Three women contractors raped in Iraq testify before a Senate committee: why has the Justice Department failed to prosecute crimes like these?
Karen Houppert
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Olympic Flame Out
Boycotts of the Beijing Olympics are easy. What's harder is moving China towards meaningful progress on human rights.
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Column
The Intemperate Candidate
Hillary Clinton's intemperate remarks about "obliterating" Iran cloud her primary win with questions about her judgment.
Robert Scheer
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Can the Golden State Warriors Save Oakland?
The Warriors will miss this year's NBA playoffs, but they can still be winners by reaching out to at-risk youth in Oakland.
Dave Zirin
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Bitter Fruit in Pennsylvania
If Obama's remarks on poor white voters were gauche, the responses they elicited have been galling.
Gary Younge
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Books & the Arts
Dreaming Obama in North Carolina
Conversations with historian John Hope Franklin and civil rights heroes about race, memory and the possibility of change.
Tom Hayden
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The Light Stuff
The Kindle e-reader lightens your load, but can you curl up with it in bed?
Melanie Rehak
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Back Talk: Nicholson Baker
In the debut of a new biweekly series, the author of Human Smoke discusses pacifism and World War II.
Christine Smallwood
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Her Good Thing
The versatile vocalist Mable John, now a novelist and minister, has come a long way since the 1960s soul era that made her (almost) famous.
Nathaniel Friedman
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Every Photo an Archive
Peppered with moving, thought-provoking elements, the photographic exhibition "Archive Fever" is fascinating but essentially incoherent.
Susie Linfield
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Arms and the Right
Two books dissect the contentious, confusing debate over gun control and the frequently misinterpreted Second Amendment.
Daniel Lazare
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Letters