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February 15, 2010 Issue

Charles Glass on Emma Williams’s memoir of Jerusalem, Calvin Trillin on Ben Bernanke and the Editors on investigating torture…

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Editorial

Transparency Can Curb Corporate Impact on Elections

In the face of a Supreme Court decision that eliminates crucial checks on corporate political spending nationwide, we must demand greater accountability and transparency around h...

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio

Death and Cover-Up at Guantánamo

Staying the hand of justice on torture has gained the Obama administration nothing from Republicans. It's time to investigate deaths at Guantánamo.

The Editors

Political Fever

Since recent shock waves of populism, Obama has made some bigger promises.

William Greider

Noted.

Robert Gates admits that Blackwater is in Pakistan; Air America signs off.

The Editors

A Cold Day in Washington

A freeze on discretionary spending may poll well, but it endorses ignorance of how the federal government spends its money.

Chris Hayes

Democracy Inc.

The Citizens United campaign finance decision makes it possible for the nation's most powerful economic interests to manipulate not just individual electoral contests but...

The Editors

Column

Volcker Rules

Obama's endorsement of what he calls the 'Volcker Rule' for once puts him squarely on the side of ordinary Americans as opposed to the banking bandits who have so thoroughly fleece...

Robert Scheer

All-White Basketball League: Bringing Segregation Back

If not for the incessant backlash against NBA players, the all-white All-American Basketball Alliance would never have gotten off the ground.

Dave Zirin and David J. Leonard

Corpus Ex Machina

Citizens United raises the questions: why is speech the functional equivalent of money, and why are corporations considered persons?

Patricia J. Williams

The Games Journalists Play

Books like Game Change are more instructive for what they reveal about the community that prizes them than for the information they contain.

Eric Alterman

Vote of Confidence, Sort of

Calvin Trillin

Letters

'Untitled'
Takoma Park, Md.

Eric Alterman and Our Readers

Feature

Ten Things to Oppose the Anti-Gay Legislation in Uganda

Although homosexuality is criminalized in 80 countries, the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009 is the most egregious attempt to sanction homophobia and threaten the human r...

The Nation

The Second Sex at the Super Bowl

The Tim Tebow commercial is no departure at all for viewers of the big game.

Jaclyn Friedman

Movie Favorites from the Secretary of Defense

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates chooses a movie--and it happens to be about a military coup in the US.

Tom Engelhardt

Honor Killing by Any Other Name

To consider honor killing within Muslim communities a crime unto itself overlooks the patriarchal roots of much of the intimate partner violence perpetrated in the Western world.

Anna Momigliano

General Petraeus, PhD, at the University

Gen. David Petraeus pays a visit to Georgetown, where he takes questions but doesn't always answer them.

Norman Birnbaum

Howard Zinn speaks into a microphone at the 2009 Sundance Music Festival on January 22, 2009 in Park City, Utah.

Remembering Howard Zinn

Friends of The Nation and of Howard Zinn offer recollections of the man, his work, and his impact on thinkers and activists.

Various Contributors

‘New Haiti,’ Same Corporate Interests

Foreign ministers in the "Friends of Haiti" want to "build a new Haiti." But what will their neoliberal agenda mean for ordinary Haitians?

Isabel Macdonald

Surveillance Can’t Make Us Secure

The goal of government surveillance is to create a deliberate backdoor into secure systems. The appeal to a hacker is obvious.

Julian Sanchez

Tiller’s Killer Puts Abortion on Trial

Judge Warren Wilbert has ruled that Scott Roeder, confessed killer of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller, couldn't be considered for lesser crimes than first-degree murder. Tod...

Sharon Lerner