The Hidden Cost of DNA Banking The Hidden Cost of DNA Banking
"Bio-prospecting" is unreflective--and unregulated.
Apr 16, 2010 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Bad Law, Smart Politics in Constitutional Challenges to Healthcare Reform Bad Law, Smart Politics in Constitutional Challenges to Healthcare Reform
Legal experts say constitutional challenges to the healthcare reform legislation don't have a leg to stand on. But as politics, these suits could be a roaring success.
Apr 16, 2010 / Aziz Huq
Slide Show: The Nation Celebrates Earth Day Slide Show: The Nation Celebrates Earth Day
In 2004, journalist Ross Gelbspan wrote Boiling Point, urging journalists and politicians to face the reality of the climate crisis by taking immediate action. In his Nation articl…
Apr 14, 2010 / Photo Essay / The Nation
Letters Letters
Letter published in the May 3, 2010, issue of The Nation.
Apr 14, 2010 / Our Readers, D.D. Guttenplan, and Maria Margaronis
Gaming Your Brain For Violence Gaming Your Brain For Violence
What effect does training soldiers to "dehumanize" the enemy have on us? And are video games giving us in some part the same training?
Apr 9, 2010 / Laura Flanders
Minority Opinions on the iPad Minority Opinions on the iPad
The iPad -- It's very strange. It started arriving in stores April 1 and the reviewers are already calling it a game changer but one aspect of the new device is causing conster...
Apr 1, 2010 / Laura Flanders
Nowhere to Hyde Nowhere to Hyde
The healthcare reform debate exposed the weakness of the prochoice movement. What now?
Apr 1, 2010 / Feature / Sharon Lerner
Socialism? Not Quite, Say the Socialists Socialism? Not Quite, Say the Socialists
"I know they call Obama's plan 'socialist.' But if the point is to make sure everyone has health care and that costs are kept down, Socialists really could have come up with s...
Mar 27, 2010 / John Nichols
The Breakdown: An Unconstitutional Mandate? The Breakdown: An Unconstitutional Mandate?
Fourteen states have filed suit challenging the healthcare overhaul, particularly the individual mandate, as unconstitutional. Christopher Hayes asks Columbia law professor Gillian...
Mar 26, 2010 / Chris Hayes
The Moderate Republican: An Endangered Species The Moderate Republican: An Endangered Species
Republicans sure know how to make Barack Obama look good. What are they going to do now, threaten to repeal a law that forces insurance companies to cover the sick?
Mar 24, 2010 / Robert Scheer