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May 12, 2008 Issue

Mark Gevisser on Zimbabwe, Alexander Cockburn on the psychic wounds of war, Steven Greenhouse on young workers.

Cover art by: Cover design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels

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Editorial

A Whole New Relationship

This is more than just a new homepage. Our new site offers new ways to mine the richness of America's oldest weekly journal of politics and culture.

Joan Connell

Network News in Denial

Why are the networks stonewalling revelations that their military analysts were actually selling the Pentagon's Iraq War spin?

Ari Melber

Things Have Changed

Notice anything different about this page? The online edition of The Nation just got a makeover. Here's a guide to the changes.

Joan Connell

Running on Empty

The era of cheap, plentiful oil is just about over. Now what?

Mark Hertsgaard

The World Food Crisis

We must rein in the global food giants who reap profits at the expense of the planet and the poor.

John Nichols

Zimbabwe Reeling

Peace among warring factions will come only when each side accepts that it can't win. And none of the players--least of all Robert Mugabe--has come to this realization.

Mark Gevisser

Noted.

A fractured death penalty ruling, the Pentagon's pimping pundits, campus antisweatshop campaigns and Guggenheims for Nation poets.

The Editors

Bitter Politics

Voters and superdelegates now must ask at what cost Clinton is willing to continue this fight.

The Editors

Column

The Candidates Pump Gas

As Clinton and McCain pander to frustrated voters with tax cuts, the real remedies to rising gas prices go unexplored.

Nicholas von Hoffman

No Country for Old Men

Age is a factor in this race and nowhere is it so important as in McCain's vice-presidential choice.

Robert Scheer

Why Do We Care About the NFL Draft?

For fans, the pigskin meat market is mindless fun, but for young players, football is no fantasy.

Dave Zirin

Men of the Cloth

When it comes to keeping women pregnant and in their place, polygamous Mormons and the Pope have a lot in common.

Katha Pollitt

Real Clear Numbers: 101,000 US Casualties a Year

The psychological wounds of war will be with us for years to come.

Alexander Cockburn

Americans Tell It Like It Is to the Iraqis

"We blew up your country, assaulted your people and have perpetuated a state of chaos for five years."

Ward Sutton

Patriotism, 2008

Calvin Trillin

Letters

Capital Implosion?

Herndon, Va.

Our Readers and Ange Mlinko

Feature

Workers Memorial Day

This week marked Workers Memorial Day, when unions and advocacy organizations held memorials and protests to honor those who have died on the job.

Esther Kaplan

Can Obama Resurrect Real Conservatism?

A conversation with Andrew Bacevich about what conservatives and progressives can hope for in the post-Bush era.

Susannah Vila

Lessons From Columbia ’68

As Columbia University goes forward with controversial plans to expand into Harlem, alumni mark the fortieth anniversary of explosive student protests.

Jayati Vora

Shirin Ebadi: Don’t Attack Iran

The Nobel Prize-winning activist says US threats, regime-change rhetoric and efforts to promote democracy only give Iran's leaders an excuse to intensify repression.

Bob Dreyfuss

Truckers Take Their Case to the Capitol

Riding with a caravan that descended on Washington Monday, to call for immediate government action to push down fuel prices.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The First H

If California's historic 1950 Senate race had gone the other way there would have been no Checkers speech, no Watergate break-in, no Woodward and Bernstein, perhaps an early exit f...

Michele Willens