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April 13, 2009 Issue

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Editorial

Trust Your Guts

Wall Street reforms may further consolidate power and ratify a corporate state that combines the worst aspects of socialism and capitalism.

William Greider

Three Mile Island, the NRC and Obama

Thirty years after the Three Mile Island partial meltdown, the real nuclear power threat is the relicensing of old plants.

Christian Parenti

Don’t Go There Mr. President!

Sending 17,000 or 21,000 more US troops to Afghanistan will not protect Americans against Al Qaeda attacks

Tom Hayden

Noted.

Esther Kaplan on the SEIU and the California Nurses Association's "game changer"; Bruce Shapiro on the death penalty; praise and prizes for The Nation.

The Editors

Experts of the World Unite

Despite Obama's inaugural call for a New Era of Responsibility, the old cynicism threatens a comeback.

Chris Hayes

Geithnerism Must Go

In the end, the treasury secretary's fate is less important than the fate of the economic principles he has championed.

The Editors

A ‘Stolen’ Education

An inner-city mother jailed for sending her kids to a suburban school district? This belongs to a past we'd do best to leave behind.

Susan Eaton

Fair Elections Now!

The moment is ripe for major campaign-finance reform.

Nick Nyhart and David Donnelly

Column

In for a Penny, In for $2.98 Trillion

The money involved in the auto bailout is chump change compared with what Wall Street got, and it is far better spent.

Robert Scheer

Bonus Outrage: Class Struggle or Class Envy?

Imagine, if you will, a white-collar CEO version of the TV show Cops. Roll cameras. Send up the chopper.

Gary Younge

Is Jon Stewart Our Ed Murrow? Maybe…

It's a sad comment on the state of the media that we have come to rely on funnymen to tell us the truth about our country.

Eric Alterman

On the Marketing of Yankee Grass

Calvin Trillin

Letters

Leave Afghanistan
Medford, Mass.

Our Readers

Feature

‘We Can’t Remake Afghanistan’

Andrew Bacevich, author of The Limits of Power, weighs in on how President Obama failed to consider the containment option in Afghanistan.

Russ Hoyle

I Love Bill Moyers, but He’s Wrong About Socialism

Finally there is an audience willing to listen, albeit warily, to a challenge to capitalism.

Joanne Landy

Socialists, Out and Proud

It's time to come out of our political closets and say openly that another world is not only possible but necessary.

Dave Zirin

Higher Education Takes a Hit

As university budgets dwindle, adjunct professors around the country are looking to unionize in a desperate effort to protect their jobs.

Gabriel Arana

US Envoy Writes of Israeli Threats

In a forthcoming memoir, John Gunther Dean writes about not only pressure from pro-Israeli officials in Washington but attempts on his life for reaching out to the Palestinians.

Barbara Crossette

Blue Gold: Have the Next Resource Wars Begun?

How we decide to manage water will determine whether our future is peaceful or perilous.

Tara Lohan

Tell ‘The Nation’: Americans Ask the Hard Questions

Dispatches from Nation readers who are making the most of difficult times.

Our Readers

The Great Afghan Bailout

As with AIG, the American people could end up 'owning' 80 percent of the Afghanistan-Pakistan project without ever 'nationalizing' it.

Tom Engelhardt

Taking Up the Task

Our goal should be a classless economy that eliminates the division between the coordinator class and the working class.

Michael Albert

The President’s Never-Ending Virtual Town Hall

President Obama cracked the White House door for citizens on Thursday, and some of their questions were still bubbling up long after the first virtual town hall ended.

Ari Melber