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Debating the Great Debate Debating the Great Debate

This essay, from the November 11, 1960 issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published on ...

Sep 22, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Various Contributors

Taking Liberties Taking Liberties

On September 2 a federal judge in Detroit threw out the only jury conviction the Justice Department has obtained on a terrorism charge since 9/11.

Sep 16, 2004 / David Cole

Letter From Afghanistan Letter From Afghanistan

The strange story of the Herati shelter girls shows the limits of "liberation."

Sep 16, 2004 / Feature / Ann Jones

Security for Sale Security for Sale

This article is adapted from Sifry and Watzman's just-published Is That a Politician in Your Pocket? Washington on $2 Million a Day.

Sep 16, 2004 / Micah L. Sifry and Nancy Watzman

Be Our Guests Be Our Guests

Guest workers in the US are routinely punished for asserting their rights.

Sep 9, 2004 / Feature / David Bacon

The Girlie Vote The Girlie Vote

Since when are women--51 percent of the population--a special interest?

Sep 9, 2004 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Now Hear This! Now Hear This!

A once-sleepy population of artists and their fans has emerged as a loud and active proponent of political change.

Sep 2, 2004 / Feature / Hillary Frey

Hope for Human Rights Hope for Human Rights

This article was adapted from The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear (Basic Books, www.theimpossible.org).

Sep 2, 2004 / Feature / Kenneth Roth

The Burden of Memory The Burden of Memory

Perhaps you noticed them in the main square of your town this year--or last year, or any year you've been alive, in any town where you've ever lived: a group of people solemnly a...

Sep 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Meline Toumani

The Bush Crusade The Bush Crusade

Sacred violence, again unleashed in 2001, could prove as destructive as in 1096.

Sep 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / James Carroll

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