Judging Elena Kagan
Obama's Supreme Court nominee should be "borked."
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May 31, 2010 Issue
Cover art by: Cover design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels; Illustrations by Igor Kopelnitsky
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Editorial
Pakistan’s Challenge
America's Pakistan problem is getting worse, not better, on President Obama's watch.
Noted.
Spring laurels for The Nation, plus Peter Weiss on Rhonda Copeland, and John Nichols on David Obey.
America’s Radical Roots
American radicalism has drawn its inspiration from the nation's revolutionary founding claims. Yet to refer to someone as radical is to risk offense.
Column
Britain Braces for the Shocks to Come
The Tories want to make budget cuts fast and deep.
Believing in Justice, Blaming the Victim
Those who most strongly believe that the world is fair are most likely to reconcile their distress about unearned suffering by blaming the victims.
What Ever Happened to Welfare Mothers?
If the boom years failed to lift poor mothers into the middle class, how are they faring now that the middle class is becoming the new poor?
Letters
Feature
ROC vs. the NRA
Hit hard by the recession, America's restaurant workers are fighting for a fair deal.
Retaking Rio
With the Olympics coming to town, the state seeks to reclaim the favelas.
Aiding the Insurgency
A celebrated US program designed to employ Iraqis is called a “sham” that fed the resistance.
Shakeup in the UK
Nick Clegg has taken the Liberal Democrats into government with the Tories, serving as deputy prime minister to David Cameron, a politician he has called "the con man of ...
Books & the Arts
In Our Orbit: What Was Lost
Kai Bird's Crossing Mandelbaum Gate is a meditation on the collective failure of Israelis and Palestinians to reconcile their histories of loss and victimhood.
The Enhancement of the Senses
In The Age of Wonder, Richard Holmes lucidly charts how the Romantics were as transfixed by the failures of science as they were by its bright accomplishments.
Mind the Enlightenment
Jonathan Israel's epic defense of "Radical Enlightenment" has the dogmatic ring of a profession of faith.
