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Feature
Obama Trapped Behind Wall of Mideast Containment
Why the Obama administration’s efforts to achieve a Middle East peace between the Israelis and Palestinians are inextricably linked to its efforts to bring Iran to heel.
Ira Chernus
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Russian Journalists Still Under Threat
Three years after the assassination of Russian journalist Anna Politikovskaya, impunity reigns.
Adam Federman
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An ACORN Amendment for Pfizer
Representative Betty McCollum’s “ACORN Act” would prevent the government from doing business with corporations that have been found guilty of felonies.
Jeremy Scahill
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Do They Take Us for Shmucks?
The best arguments for the creation of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency come from the politicians and lobbyists who oppose it.
Greg Kaufmann
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US-UN Ties Still Strained
Barely a week after Barack Obama plunged into the UN for three unprecedented days, our reconciliation with the organization is already showing fault lines.
Barbara Crossette
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Iran and the Pipelineistan Opera
The story under the Iranian nuclear story: how Iranian natural gas will reach Europe.
Pepe Escobar
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Dick Gephardt’s Spectacular Sellout
As a politician, he was a champion of progressive reform. Now he lobbies for its enemies.
Sebastian Jones
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The Coalfield Uprising
Appalachian activists are gaining ground in a campaign to ban mountaintop removal mining.
Jeff Biggers
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An Open Letter to President Obama
Mr. President, don’t derail your presidency by bungling Afghanistan.
William R. Polk
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Editorial
Copenhagen: Obama Better Go Back
If Obama can go to Copenhagen to support Chicago’s Olympic bid, he can go back for the UN climate change summit.
Naomi Klein
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Noted.
Activism against Afghanistan escalation, the death of Texas liberal Don Yarborough, a bailout for students
The Editors
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Chávez Talks to ‘The Nation’
Hugo Chávez on Barack Obama, the Honduran crisis, and domestic successes and challenges.
The Editors
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Rethinking Government
Effective government is the precondition of freedom. And Obama needs to tell us that.
Drew Westen
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Israel vs. Human Rights
Israel’s latest strategy for responding to allegations of human rights abuses: kill the messenger.
Philip Weiss and Adam Horowitz
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Against Escalation
Obama faces a presidency-defining choice: will he escalate in Afghanistan, or plot a new course?
The Editors
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Column
A War of Absurdity
There is no indication that any of the contending forces in Afghanistan, including the Taliban, are interested in bringing Al Qaeda back.
Robert Scheer
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Same as It Ever Was: Talking Head in Pittsburgh
Why the sudden disclosure of a secret uranium enrichment facility in Iran?
Alexander Cockburn
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Books & the Arts
Drunk and Disorderly
Jean Rhys wrote about women who tangled with class and sexuality on their own terms.
Phoebe Connelly
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Suspended Sentences
Eliot Weinberger’s enigmatic essays save him from becoming a prisoner of his polemical style.
Scott Saul
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The First Counter-revolutionary
Thomas Hobbes sensed the revolutionary impulses of early modern Europe and transformed them into a defense of the most hidebound form of rule.
Corey Robin
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Letters
Letters
The Gates Foundation in Africa
Seattle
Our Readers, Raj Patel, Eric Holt-Gimenez and Annie Shattuck
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