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Texas Tea

Can Governor Rick Perry hold off a stronger than expected challenger and take a shot at 2012?

Bob Moser

The Assault on Healthcare Reform

Conservative groups backed by wealthy donors are attacking the legislation at the state level.

Nicholas Kusnetz

Unionbusting, Iraqi-Style

With US approval and privatization the goal, the government is targeting organized labor.

David Bacon

Lou Dobbs, American Hypocrite

While he railed against "illegals," undocumented immigrants tended to his estates and prize horses. A special Nation investigative report.

Isabel Macdonald

Make It Legal

Undocumented workers are so thoroughly woven into the fabric of our economy that even two professional immigrant-bashers, Lou Dobbs and Meg Whitman, have found it difficult to avoid relying on their labor.

The Editors

Obama’s Long War

Bob Woodward’s Obama’s Wars is essential reading for anyone seeking a map out of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Tom Hayden

Noted.

John Nichols on attorneys general against Citizens United, Adam Federman on hazards of natural gas drilling and Jennifer O’Mahoney on attempts to rollback California’s regulations on greenhouse gas emissions.

Various Contributors

The Antisocial Network

As Facebook continues to shape norms online and set the bar for aspiring start-ups, it is worth remembering the premise that it was built on.

Ari Melber

She Bop

Masturbation is normal, natural and good for you; you wouldn’t know it from the hours of talk-media devoted to winks and nudges over the adventures of Christine O’Donnell.

JoAnn Wypijewski

Marvels, Madness, Medicine

When revelations of unethical medical experimentation by the US in Guatemala surfaced, there were, as always, protestations of "never again." But we’re failing to address the true cost of the experiment: distrust of the medical establishment among the disenfranchised.

Patricia J. Williams

Barbarians at the Gate

American conservatism is poised to come to (legislative) power, just as it runs itself off the rails.

Eric Alterman

Politico Reveals That All Non-Office-Holding Contenders for the Republican Presidential Nomination in 2012 Except Mitt Romney Are on the Fox News Payroll

In Murdoch’s pocket. And with pockets ajingle.

Calvin Trillin

The Antisocial Network

As Facebook continues to shape norms online and set the bar for aspiring start-ups, it is worth remembering the premise that it was built on.

Ari Melber

Representative Women

Christine Stansell’s The Feminist Promise is a landmark book, yet is indifferent to the role of ideas in feminism’s history.

Martha C. Nussbaum

Doing the Time: On Paul Chan

Waiting for Godot in New Orleans is a field guide to the life of an idea worked out in a community over eight months.

Nick Stillman

Traps

David Fincher’s The Social Network; Yael Hersonki’s A Film Unfinished; Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today

Stuart Klawans

Fair Warning

In Our Orbit: Tom Engelhardt’s The American Way of War.

Frederick Deknatel

Letters to the Editor

Our Readers

Puzzle No. 1604

This puzzle originally appeared in the October 25, 1975, issue.

Frank W. Lewis