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July 30, 2007 Issue
Calvin Trillin waxes poetic on Ralph Nader, David Kirp analyzes the rightward drifting Supreme Court, Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow reveals the real…
Cover art by: Cover photograph © 2007 Eugene Richards for The Nation Institute, cover design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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Editorial
New reproductive technologies that could allow the rich to become genetically richer and the poor even more disadvantaged are challenging progressives to take a fresh look at core ...
Samuel Berger
The testimony of three former Surgeons General offers more proof of how the Bush Administration's corps of inept political operatives subverts our system of checks and balances.
Stanley I. Kutler
Almost entirely under the media radar, unemployed workers here are taking over bankrupt businesses and reopening them under democratic management.
Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis
Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights doesn't officially favor the war in Iraq, so why is it helping Gen. David Petraeus devise a counter-insurgency doctrine?
Tom Hayden
As he observes his eighty-fifth birthday, here's a tribute to 'the most decent man in the US Senate,' who has left his mark on politics and on the American people.
Rep. Jim McGovern
Sure we have a healthcare system in America. The trouble is, it's designed not to make people healthy but to make money.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Under Rupert Murdoch, the paper of record for the global economy won't survive as an independent voice.
John Nichols
MoveOn.org's issue-driven primary may not end up naming a winner, but it's shaping up to be more substantive, thoughtful and participatory than the actual presidential primary.
Ari Melber
We're sickened by tainted food because our government is unwilling to eat into the profits of the corporations our regulators serve.
David Goldstein
Rather than build a unified culture in a diverse society, the conservative Gang of Five that now dominates the Supreme Court is polarizing the country.
David Kirp
Veterans of conscience have come forward with evidence that US forces kill Iraqi noncombatants every day. Now America must bring this deadly occupation to an immediate end.
The Editors
Column
Public sentiment is solidly against the war; when will the President and political leaders of both parties have the courage to end it?
Robert Scheer
With the indictment of the Atlanta Falcons quarterback on federal conspiracy charges for running an alleged dogfighting operation, the media went into attack mode.
Dave Zirin
This is the belllicose imperial presidency the authors of our Constitution warned us about.
Robert Scheer
America's kids will get less calcium because of our unabated appetite for gas-guzzling cars--and the wrongheaded belief that ethanol is the answer.
Nicholas von Hoffman
As the Supreme Court rules public schools cannot take voluntary action to overcome racial inequality, what's surprising is the lack of outcry.
Patricia J. Williams
Dear George Bush: Don't stop with Scooter Libby. Why not go all the way and pardon everyone unfairly held behind bars?
Katha Pollitt
If the American people are largely against the war, what's the matter with the antiwar movement? The answer lies with what has happened over the years to the American left.
Alexander Cockburn
Letters
A veterans group takes issue with The Nation's investigation of the impact of the US military occupation on Iraqi civilians.
The Nation
Responses to articles by Katha Pollitt, Joaquín Villalobos, Jon Wiener, Charles Glass and David Yaffe.
Our Readers
Feature
Key aspects of national security, including intelligence and analysis used to create the President's Daily Brief, have been turned over to private corporations.
R.J. Hillhouse
Local food projects and community gardens are springing up in urban areas all over the country, cutting a promising new path to empowering the poor.
Sophie Johnson
The anti-war Texas Republican is pulling more campaign contributions from the military than John McCain. That says a lot about the mindset of the troops.
Tom Engelhardt
In the violent aftermath of the storming of Islamabad's Red Mosque, the
military-mullah alliance that kept Pervez Musharraf in power is
unraveling, the Taliban is ascendant, and ho...
Graham Usher
Wendy Shalit's new book pits "good girls" against "girls gone wild." But where's the middle ground?
Nona Willis Aronowitz
The perennial temptation to blame disease on sin or some grave moral failing just took another hit.
Barbara Ehrenreich
A netroots political convention in Chicago aims to transcend the horse race and let the people, not the media, frame the questions put to candidates.
Ari Melber and Andrea Batista Schlesinger
In the summer of 1967, Plainfield, New Jersey, and scores of other US cities exploded in racial violence. Forty years later, the impact is still palpable.
Peter Dreier
A managed partition of Iraq into a European-style union of three politically independent but economically linked states is the best scenario to reduce violence and allow a drawdown...
Pauline H. Baker
Christian conservatives play the porn card in an attempt to discredit Mitt Romney and advance the cause of Fred Thompson.
Max Blumenthal
A White House report that claims the surge is working only throws fuel on the fire among both parties in Congress to push for withdrawal.
Bob Dreyfuss
Immigration reform may have crashed in Washington, but a very different
discussion of the same issues continues below the border.
Roberto Lovato
With greater efficiency than the slow efforts for truth and justice, a traveling art exhibition bears witness to the victims of Argentina's "dirty war."
Marian Schlotterbeck
In a special investigation of the impact of the war on Iraqi civilians, interviews with fifty combat veterans reveals disturbing patterns of behavior by US troops in Iraq--brutal a...
Chris Hedges and Laila Al-Arian
Books & the Arts
Live Free or Die Hard is boot camp for slackers. Knocked Up takes measure of the inadequate man.
Stuart Klawans
This is the belllicose imperial presidency the authors of our Constitution warned us about.
Robert Scheer
With greater efficiency than the slow efforts for truth and justice, a traveling art exhibition bears witness to the victims of Argentina's "dirty war."
Marian Schlotterbeck
Is made of the banging
Shock-absorbers
And hydrosulphuric stench,
And the boiling, stinking, panting
Factory line
Henia Karmel
Demonized for decades by ideological foes on the right and left, the mother of the birth control movement is finally able to speak for herself.
Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
Two big literary anniversaries: Jack London's forgotten gem The Road turns 100, and Jack Kerouac's On the Road hits 50.
Jonah Raskin
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