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Nation Notes Nation Notes

William Greider's article "The Last Farm Crisis" (November 20, 2000) has won a Harry Chapin Media Award, given by World Hunger Year.... Gregory Palast's investigation into the pur...

Apr 19, 2001 / The Editors

Chinese Boxes Chinese Boxes

Thankfully, the clash between Washington and Beijing over the downing of a US reconnaissance plane off Hainan Island never spiraled out of control like the Chinese jet that buzzed...

Apr 19, 2001 / The Editors

Discovery/The Nation ’01 Prizewinners Discovery/The Nation ’01 Prizewinners

The Nation announces the winners of Discovery/The Nation, the Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prize.

Apr 19, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Grace Schulman

Justice Scotched in Lockerbie Trial Justice Scotched in Lockerbie Trial

There's a famous passage in Lord Cockburn's Memorials of His Time where the great Scotch judge and leading Whig stigmatizes some of his Tory predecessors on the bench, including ...

Apr 19, 2001 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Lie to the Media, Get a Job Lie to the Media, Get a Job

Perhaps I underestimate the joy of being given a silly nickname by the Leader of the Free World, but I'm having a hard time understanding why media big feet are so taken by the n...

Apr 19, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman

Letter From Italy Letter From Italy

Fascism is presentable again--but without the torchlight rallies.

Apr 19, 2001 / Feature / John L. Allen Jr.

Otto Reich, WRAP Star Otto Reich, WRAP Star

Otto Reich is the vice chairman of Worldwide Responsible Apparel Production or WRAP, a clothing-industry front founded about a year ago to undermine the growing antisweatshop move...

Apr 17, 2001 / Feature / Alec Dubro

Bush Vs. Green Bush Vs. Green

Barbara Kingsolver, renowned author of The Poisonwood Bible and Prodigal Summer, wrote this call-to-action against the profound threats the new administration poses to

Apr 15, 2001 / Barbara Kingsolver

Letters Letters

'FALSE AND DISTORTED' New York City Christopher Hitchens's diatribe on Professor Elie Wiesel's essay on Jerusalem in the New York Times is a false and distor...

Apr 12, 2001 / Our Readers

In Fact… In Fact…

VILLARAIGOSA IN LA Labor Democrat Antonio Villaraigosa's raucous victory party at Union Station on April 10 was rife with the symbolism of a Los Angeles undergoing radical change...

Apr 12, 2001 / The Editors

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