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Feature
Naoto Kan and the End of ‘Japan Inc.’
Criticism of the government’s response to the catastrophe has obscured major political changes.
Tim Shorrock
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The Dangerous US Game in Yemen
If President Saleh falls, the US will have lost a pliant partner in its “global war on terror.”
Jeremy Scahill
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Jim Messina, Obama’s Enforcer
The president’s re-election campaign manager has alienated grassroots constituencies.
Ari Berman
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Editorial
Put the Banksters on Trial
In the foreclosure scandal, the crooks are still calling the shots.
William Greider
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Noted.
Roane Carey on The Nation’s victory against warrantless wiretapping, John Nichols on Wisconsin’s William Cronon and Riddhi Shah on India and Pakistan’s “cricket diplomacy.”
Various Contributors
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Elizabeth Taylor: What Becomes a Legend Most
Remembering the icon, a pro at sex and survival.
JoAnn Wypijewski
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Back at You, Glenn Beck
Overnight, Glenn Beck transformed me into an all-powerful agent of “economic terrorism”—when all I did was call for Americans to reject bad financial deals.
Stephen Lerner
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Column
Women Under the Budget Knife
Despite all the talk of shared sacrifice, the drastic slashes to public sector jobs and social programs will hurt women the most.
Katha Pollitt
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Are We All Black Americans Now?
More and more Americans are learning what it feels like to be unsafe and unprotected. In other words, they’re learning what it’s like to be black.
Melissa Harris-Perry
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Books & the Arts
Elizabeth Taylor: What Becomes a Legend Most
Remembering the icon, a pro at sex and survival.
JoAnn Wypijewski
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Naoto Kan and the End of ‘Japan Inc.’
Criticism of the government’s response to the catastrophe has obscured major political changes.
Tim Shorrock
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When Nothing Happens: On David Bezmozgis
The Free World is a novel about lives suspended at a moment when everything is uncertain. It is about frustration. Unfortunately, it too is frustrating.
Aaron Thier
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Turkey’s Transformation: On Islam, Nationalism and Modernity
Carter Vaughn Finley’s timely new history contends that Turkey’s development has been misunderstood as an upward march from Islamic empire to secular republic.
Marc Edward Hoffman
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Readjustments: On ‘Win Win,’ ‘The Adjustment Bureau’ and ‘My Perestroika’
Is it a good thing that film—not the audiovisual materials that exist everywhere but movies, projected in public spaces— has stopped being central to American life?
Stuart Klawans
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Letters
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Crossword
Puzzle No. 1626
From the April 3, 1976, issue. Be sure to vote in our contest to pick the new Nation puzzlemeister! And don’t give up too quickly, but the solutions to the contestants’ puzzles are now available!
Frank W. Lewis