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Obama Stalls for Time With Healthcare Summit Obama Stalls for Time With Healthcare Summit

Obama's healthcare summit is a delay tactic--it's what happens after, when someone steps up to steer the bill, that counts.

Feb 10, 2010 / Feature / Lindsay Beyerstein

Anne Frank’s Diary Too Explicit for School Anne Frank’s Diary Too Explicit for School

Va. school system's censoring of Anne Frank's Diary raises questions of when, if ever, it's appropriate to restrict books in schools.

Feb 10, 2010 / StudentNation / Morgan Ashenfelter

Pledge to Save Journalism Pledge to Save Journalism

All that guff you're hearing about the importance of public service reporting that's insulated from the influence of corporate advertisers? It's not guff -- as ABC TV affiliates in...

Feb 10, 2010 / Laura Flanders

RNC’s Steele Decides It Is O.K. to Play the Race Card RNC’s Steele Decides It Is O.K. to Play the Race Card

Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele used to be able to muster a lot of disdain for political players who suggested that criticism of them might be racially motiva...

Feb 10, 2010 / John Nichols

When Snow Melts: Vancouver’s Olympic Crackdown When Snow Melts: Vancouver’s Olympic Crackdown

News Flash: Winter Olympic officials in tropical Vancouver have been forced to import snow - on the public dime - to make sure that the 2010 games proceed as planned. This use of t...

Feb 9, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Dave Zirin

Trials and Terror Trials and Terror

Four Republicans continue to misrepresent the rights of the accused "underwear" bomber--despite having been briefed on those rights on Christmas Day.

Feb 9, 2010 / Countdown

Do Terrorists Deserve Due Process? Do Terrorists Deserve Due Process?

Hayes debates Scarborough over the constitutional rights of terrorists.

Feb 9, 2010 / MSNBC

Tell ‘The Nation’: Voices of the Uninsured Tell ‘The Nation’: Voices of the Uninsured

Uninsured Americans have arguably the highest stake in the outcome of the healthcare debate--so why are they absent from the national conversation over its fate?

Feb 9, 2010 / Feature / Various Contributors

Lifting the Veil on US Troops in Pakistan Lifting the Veil on US Troops in Pakistan

"The deaths of three American soldiers in a Taliban suicide attack on Wednesday lifted the veil on United States military assistance to Pakistan." So began a Feb 4th pie...

Feb 9, 2010 / Laura Flanders

Slide Show: You Know You’re on a Nation Cruise When… Slide Show: You Know You’re on a Nation Cruise When…

Comedienne Katie Halper, who joined The Nation's cruise this year, knows eleven ways to spot a Nation cruise from a nautical mile away.

Feb 8, 2010 / Photo Essay / The Nation

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