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February 8, 2010 Issue

Sasha Abramsky on solutions for California, Calvin Trillin on Robertson and Limbaugh, and a poem by Amina Saïd.

Cover art by: Cover: military bases where the United States has leasing rights or, in the case of Guantánamo, Puerto Rico and Honduras, a long-term presence. Research & original design by Grace Livingstone, map design by Lloyd Miller, cover design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels

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Editorial

Geithner Must Go–and the Future of the Fed

The first casualty of the president's political debacle will likely be Timothy Geithner, the severely over-confident treasury secretary well-known as a lapdog of Wall Street.

William Greider

The Love We Lost

Like the terrorist, the sex offender is a new category of human being.

JoAnn Wypijewski

The Haiti Haters

In this moment of death and destruction, we should not turn away.

What Haiti Is Owed

For much of Haiti's existence, foreign powers have used debt not just to control but to plunder it.

Massachusetts Meltdown

What the wake-up call is really telling us.

Column

The Sorry State of the Union

The state of the union is just miserable, no matter how President Obama sugarcoats it.

NFL Wants to Go Steady–With Reebok

The Supreme Court will soon tell the NFL whether it can knock out competition by cutting deals as a single entity.

Dave Zirin and Jeremiah Tittle

Free Nazia Quazi

How far have women come if a country like Canada permits a father to imprison his daughter in the cage of Saudi laws?

Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh on Haiti

Letters

Letters

Love Those Sunken Cities!
Knoxville, Tenn.

Alexander Cockburn and Our Readers

Feature

Geithner’s AIG Bailout

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was summoned to testify before the House yesterday to answer two questions: why did he sign off on AIG paying full value on insurance for bad as...

NATO’s Role in the Afghanistan Escalation

As part of an attempt to frame the surge as an important move towards negotiations with the Taliban, NATO countries are set to contribute 7,000 soldiers for the Afghanistan war.

Tell The Nation: Obama at One

We asked our readers to submit their own high and low points of President Obama's first year.

Blackwater in Pakistan: Gates Confirms

In the past two days, both Defense Secretary Robert Gates and a Pakistani senior minister have confirmed that Blackwater is operating in Pakistan.

UN Diplomat Lost to Haiti’s Earthquake

Among the dead in Haiti are the UN workers who were trying to make the nation a better place.

Obama and the Long View

Confident in the long-term impact of his policy decisions, Obama rarely gets flustered by short-term shifts in political fortune.

American Idle

As GM shutters a plant, an Ohio city in decline struggles to imagine a future.

Christopher Phelps

Standing Up for Change

A growing number of Californians are organizing to develop solutions.

West Coast Wasteland

Savage budget cuts and political dysfunction are tearing California's social infrastructure apart.

Muscling Latin America

The Pentagon has a new Monroe Doctrine.

Books & the Arts

The Love We Lost

Like the terrorist, the sex offender is a new category of human being.

JoAnn Wypijewski

Alice’s Wonderlands: On Alice Guy Blaché

The first decade of filmmaking belonged to one woman alone: Alice Guy Blaché.

A Fine Romance: On Cristina Nehring

If love has been exhausted as a literary theme, has it vanished from our experience of life as well?

Miriam Markowitz

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