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January 7, 2008 Issue
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Editorial
Welcoming Peter Gizzi, The Nation's new poetry editor.
The Editors
Striking members of the Writers Guild of America are bringing the labor movement something it hasn't had for a long time: an audience.
Luvh Rakhe
Dana Perino's ignorance, Michael Ratner's Puffin/Nation Prize.
The Editors
As Iowans are poised to kick off a front-loaded political season, do standout candidates Edwards and Obama have the potential to appeal to progressives?
The Editors
Column
Unlike the plot of the latest Tom Hanks film, the blowback
price of our incessant meddling could prove quite high. And
even Hollywood can't put a pretty face on that one.
Robert Scheer
Hillary Clinton's touting her expertise over Obama--but is experience at political attack, mega-fundraising and cronyism really all that desirable?
Nicholas von Hoffman
The main threat to democracy isn't “Islamofacism” but plain old fascism, with mostly white Europeans terrorizing minorities in the name of racial, cultural or religi...
Gary Younge
Ten years after the massacre of indigenous people in Chiapas, Zapatistas are reading signs that the Mexican government is poised for another wave of repression.
Naomi Klein
A paradox of American Jewish political behavior: they think like liberals, but they let belligerent right-wingers who demonize and distort their values speak for them.
Eric Alterman
Letters
WHAT IF THEY GAVE A WAR & NOBODY PAID?
Green Valley Lake, Calif.
Our Readers
Feature
Barack Obama's historic victory in Iowa comes at a crucial time for a nation still grappling with how remedies to offset racism affect America's power structure.
Ari Melber
As conservatives stare into an electoral abyss, the shadowy group that smeared John Kerry in 2004 has reorganized and stands poised to do its dirty work again.
Chris Hayes
His new stance could have an impact on Iowa caucus-goers.
Tom Hayden
Two films address US adventures in Afghanistan and Pakistan, with a big dose of historical amnesia, political pandering, moral superiority and outraged innocence.
Lakshmi Chaudhry
The deeply flawed, arresting, autocratic Benazir Bhutto had the wherewithal to save her country but repeatedly disappointed. Yet she represented the best secular option for breach...
Moni Mohsin
For all her pro-American rhetoric, many in Benazir Bhutto's party held America responsible for the "judicial murder" of her father. Will Bhutto's assassination have a like impact?
Graham Usher
Political fact marries political fiction in Citizen Kang, an online serialized novel that unfolds in weekly installments on The Nation.com throughout Campaign 08.
Gary Phillips
As the world mourns the loss of Benazir Bhutto, it would be myopic to focus only on Islamic-inspired violence and on Pakistan. For all of post-independence history, South Asia has ...
Barbara Crossette
The killing of Benazir Bhutto echoes Pakistan's troubled history, portends more violence and flags a proud country's collapse into chaos. It also signals the manifest bankruptcy of...
Aziz Huq
Meet California Congresswoman Cynthia Kang, a woman of considerable political ambition, and some secrets. Episode 1 of an ongoing online political mystery.
Gary Phillips
The United Nations' chief troubleshooter and mediator, Lakhdar Brahimi, considers what should come next in Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan and how US foreign foreign policy went so far ...
Barbara Crossette
The bad boy of Iraqi politics is going back to school.
al-Sadr's plan to become an ayatollah has enormous
implications for Iraqis and the United States.
Mohamad Bazzi
As the old concept of privacy fades and a new one arises online, what is being lost?
Ari Melber
A patchwork of local laws reflects the complicated, contradictory national debate over immigration policy.
Peter Schrag
As Clinton and Obama square off in South Carolina, a window opens on the fractured state of black politics. It's been an extended soul search. And it ain't over yet.
Bob Moser
It was a year of alarming news and amazing reporting on the Iraq War, the rise of private mercenary firms, the burgeoning business of disaster capitalism, an ever more vulnerable e...
Joan Connell
Books & the Arts
Unlike the plot of the latest Tom Hanks film, the blowback
price of our incessant meddling could prove quite high. And
even Hollywood can't put a pretty face on that one.
Robert Scheer
Two films address US adventures in Afghanistan and Pakistan, with a big dose of historical amnesia, political pandering, moral superiority and outraged innocence.
Lakshmi Chaudhry
Striking members of the Writers Guild of America are bringing the labor movement something it hasn't had for a long time: an audience.
Luvh Rakhe
A mock-heroic travelogue by Julio Cortázar and his wife captures the contemplative life on the road.
Colin Fleming
From the archive: A book by a former ICTY official offers a vivid insider's account of realpolitik at the Milosevic trial.
Marc Perelman
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