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This Week: The Future of the War on Terror. PLUS: A New Associate Editor This Week: The Future of the War on Terror. PLUS: A New Associate Editor

This week, the Nation brings you in-depth coverage of Osama bin Laden's death and what's next for the 'War on Terror.' And I argue for a saner budget blueprint modeled af...

May 6, 2011 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Greg Mitchell: How WikiLeaks Fuels the Traditional Media’s Headlines Greg Mitchell: How WikiLeaks Fuels the Traditional Media’s Headlines

Do newspapers, news programs, magazines and all the other old media need WikiLeaks?

May 6, 2011 / Video / The Nation

IUDs to Prevent HIV in Kenya?

IUDs to Prevent HIV in Kenya? IUDs to Prevent HIV in Kenya?

An American nonprofit is offering HIV-positive Kenyan women $40 to use IUDs as long-term birth control—and women are taking them up on it. Is this the right way to prevent th...

May 6, 2011 / Anna Clark

The Breakdown: What Will the ‘War on Terror’ Look Like After Osama bin Laden?

The Breakdown: What Will the ‘War on Terror’ Look Like After Osama bin Laden? The Breakdown: What Will the ‘War on Terror’ Look Like After Osama bin Laden?

In the wake of the killing of Osama bin Laden, will the US alter its strategy in the 'War on Terror'? Jeremy Scahill joins Chris Hayes to explain how the death of the Al Qaeda lead...

May 6, 2011 / Audio / Chris Hayes

Want to Hear Calls to ‘Bring the Troops Home’? Listen to GOP Presidential Debate Want to Hear Calls to ‘Bring the Troops Home’? Listen to GOP Presidential Debate

The first Republican presidential debate featured clear calls from two candidates to respond to the death of Osama bin Laden by exiting Afghanistan.

May 6, 2011 / Blog / John Nichols

Tony Kushner Denied CUNY Honor: His Letter to the Trustees Tony Kushner Denied CUNY Honor: His Letter to the Trustees

Tony Kushner's full letter to the Board of Trustees of the City University of New York—plus, how you can take action on Kushner's behalf.

May 6, 2011 / The Nation

Open Season on Teachers in Honduras Open Season on Teachers in Honduras

Mass firings, wholesale privatization, teargas—this is what the coup has come to.

May 5, 2011 / Dana Frank

Tony Kushner Denied Honors Over Palestine Tony Kushner Denied Honors Over Palestine

This week, the news hit that Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner, perhaps best known for his Angels in America, was being blocked from receiving an honorary degree from ...

May 5, 2011 / The Notion / Laura Flanders

Torturism, the New Birtherism Torturism, the New Birtherism

Whether or not torture procured any clues leading to bin Laden’s death, Trump's birther base can obsess over it, magnifying every rumor out of all proportion.

May 5, 2011 / The Notion / Leslie Savan

Congressional Caucus Chairs Tell Obama: ‘Now is the Time (to Exit) Afghanistan’ Congressional Caucus Chairs Tell Obama: ‘Now is the Time (to Exit) Afghanistan’

With Osama gone, chairs Congressional Progressive Caucus join chairs emeritus of the Congressional Black Caucus and Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus say bring the troops...

May 5, 2011 / Blog / John Nichols

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