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Nation Conversations: Andy Worthington on the Guantánamo Files Nation Conversations: Andy Worthington on the Guantánamo Files

The release of previously classified reports on the US military's Guantánamo detainees has resuscitated stories of horror and suffering that have been largely forgotten in r...

Apr 28, 2011 / Audio / The Nation

Britain’s Atavistic Royalism

Britain’s Atavistic Royalism Britain’s Atavistic Royalism

Will and Kate may look and dress like us, but their modernity is illusory. They, and the entire British polity, are tied to a 300-year-old law that puts sectarianism at the heart o...

Apr 28, 2011 / Brian Morton

Three Printers Refuse LGBT Student Publication, Citing F-Word, Images of Cross-Dressing

Three Printers Refuse LGBT Student Publication, Citing F-Word, Images of Cross-Dressing Three Printers Refuse LGBT Student Publication, Citing F-Word, Images of Cross-Dressing

Three printing companies have refused to publish the spring edition of an LGBT magazine at Kent State University, citing concerns over its images and language.

Apr 28, 2011 / StudentNation / David Spett

Tony Kushner’s Intelligent Homosexuals Tony Kushner’s Intelligent Homosexuals

Without turning into sentimental left-wing pageantry, Kushner’s new play illuminates radicalism and makes art of sectarian dreams and failures.

Apr 27, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Margaret Spillane

Let’s Admit the Truth About American Royals Let’s Admit the Truth About American Royals

According to polls, only about 6 percent of Americans are following with any close attention the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.  But that's not stop...

Apr 27, 2011 / The Notion / Laura Flanders

The Shame of John Paul II: How the Sex Abuse Scandal Stained His Papacy

The Shame of John Paul II: How the Sex Abuse Scandal Stained His Papacy The Shame of John Paul II: How the Sex Abuse Scandal Stained His Papacy

The pope failed to take decisive action in response to clear evidence of a criminal underground in the priesthood.

Apr 27, 2011 / Feature / Jason Berry

Islam’s Nonviolent Tradition

Islam’s Nonviolent Tradition Islam’s Nonviolent Tradition

History is replete with peaceful role models like the “Frontier Gandhi” of colonial India.

Apr 27, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Michael Shank

Same Old New Atheism: On Sam Harris

Same Old New Atheism: On Sam Harris Same Old New Atheism: On Sam Harris

Scientists, Sam Harris writes, are the saints of circumspection. If that’s true, then with his writing on religion and morality Harris breaks the mold.

Apr 27, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Jackson Lears

For Birthers, Obama’s Not Black Enough

For Birthers, Obama’s Not Black Enough For Birthers, Obama’s Not Black Enough

As a black man, Obama's confident knowledge of his lineage is precisely the thing that makes his American identity dubious.

Apr 27, 2011 / Column / Melissa Harris-Perry

How Can Progressives Reclaim Their Political Clout? How Can Progressives Reclaim Their Political Clout?

On a panel with Howard Dean and Jacob Hacker, Katrina vanden Heuvel suggests that liberals, progressives and the left will need to form alliances with people with whom they would n...

Apr 27, 2011 / Video / Yale University

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