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January 4, 2010 Issue
Calvin Trillin on Blackwater, Alexander Cockburn on the moral high ground on climate change, and a poem by Marina Tsvetaeva…
Cover art by: Cover image: Europe after a 75 meter rise in sea level; design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels, based on a map by Dave Pape/State University of New York, Buffalo
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Editorial
The teachable moment of the Tiger Woods circus: if you front for the worst, don't expect anyone to have your back.
Dave Zirin
Obama's Nobel speech offered a distorted view of America's role in the world and a shallow understanding of just war.
David Cortright
The Copenhagen summit has witnessed the coming of age of a genuine, global and muscular mass movement on behalf of climate action.
Mark Hertsgaard
Dropping the public option and Medicare expansion means breaking the promise of health reform: better care at lower cost.
The Editors
John Nicholson Houston's new lesbian mayor, Jon Wiener on Howard Zinn's The People Speak, Ari Berman on Editor & Publisher closing its doors
The Editors
One lesson we've learned from the economic crisis is that it's even more crucial during the holiday season to give more meaningfully.
The Nation
Column
Howard Dean was roundly condemned for casting aspersions on what even many of its more ardent supporters admit is an obviously flawed bill.
Robert Scheer
The G-8 powers are willing to do just about anything to get a deal in Copenhagen. But the urgency doesn't come from a desire to stop climate change.
Naomi Klein
Economists agree: Christmas presents are a waste of money. Give to these worthy charities instead.
Katha Pollitt
The leaked "Climategate" e-mails undermine climate activists' claim to the moral high ground.
Alexander Cockburn
Feature
President Obama has lifted the twenty-year ban on federal funding of needle exchanges. But if he wants to promote public health--over politics--on substance abuse, there are plenty...
Beth Schwartzapfel
It's dumb machines, not the smart ones of Terminator 2, that could do us in.
Rebecca Solnit
Fundamental new global realities have been obscured by the frenzy to declare winners and losers.
Barbara Crossette
Taxpayers are getting a raw deal in Citigroup's plan to repay its bailout funds. But you would never know it from reading the news.
Zach Carter
How the deal at the Copenhagen climate change summit came about--and why it may not be a real deal.
David Corn and Kate Sheppard
Later this month thousands of international solidarity activists will take part in the Gaza Freedom March to end Israel's blockade. They deserve your support.
Nancy Murray
Escalation in Afghanistan means a surge in contractors, which means that thousands more Afghans will be hired to work at US bases, guard US installations and participate in US trai...
Jeremy Scahill
ICE agents regularly impersonate civilians--OSHA inspectors, insurance agents, religious workers--in order to arrest longtime US residents who have no criminal history.
Jacqueline Stevens
Prospects for lasting peace may depend on the oil company's dubious pledge to clean up its act.
Sasha Chavkin
John Dugan helped create the "too big to fail" economy--so why is he still regulating our banks?
Zach Carter
Immigration agents are holding US residents in unlisted and unmarked subfield offices.
Jacqueline Stevens
Books & the Arts
To speak of a movement of abstractionists would be a contradiction in terms, like speaking of a church of atheists.
Barry Schwabsky
Sister Ping turned a variety store in New York's Chinatown into a lucrative business by making it a headquarters for human smuggling.
Ted Conover
For Peter Maass, oil is not a drug so much as a Pandora's box. Tap a well and base instincts spew.
Mark Sorkin
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