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November 13, 2006 Issue
Mark Hertsgaard examines the dangers of nuclear waste, Gary Younge deconstructs Obamarama, Ari Berman parses the Democratic ground game.
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Editorial
The Nation Institute establishes the Spira-Lopez Journalism
Internship for college students and graduates of Hispanic or Latino
origin.
The Editors
Her writing--sharp, satirical, infused with the spirit of skepticism--reminds us that dissent rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.
Lewis Lapham
Instant Runoff Voting will get a crucial test in four local elections on
November 7.
Krist Novoselic
A G-8 plan to ramp up nuclear energy is defended as a necessary
response to global warming. But the nuclear waste it generates will hurt
people and the planet.
Mark Hertsgaard
November 7 is suddenly looking like a fateful election that could
change the flow of politics in ways nobody anticipated.
The Editors
Column
We are now led by a false warrior who acts the simpleton, while playing to his version of what Middle America wants. To stop the madness, on November 7 voters must soundly repudiat...
Robert Scheer
College presidents are living in baronial splendor, some with salaries, benefits and perks of $1 million or more. And you wonder why the cost of tuition is so high?
Nicholas von Hoffman
Barack Obama has fallen prey to the soft bigotry of unreasonable
expectations from both the right and left.
Gary Younge
Journalism's in crisis, crushed by Wall Street and tarnished by a
failure of nerve. As newspapers die and fake news proliferates, who will
provide reliable information vital to a f...
Eric Alterman
Feature
Dogged by a history of crude responses to abortion, euthanasia and gay marriage, Pennsylvania Republican Senator Rick Santorum is trailing his Democratic foe. But a cadre of influe...
Max Blumenthal
Republican adman Scott Howell has racked up a startling Democratic body count with his signature hyperemotional style. Will his attack on Harold Ford Jr. succeed or backfire?
Max Blumenthal
By denying a noted Islamic religious scholar entry to the United States because of his ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, the Bush Administration reveals its inability to deal with th...
Stephen Glain
Blackwater USA has a new attorney to defend it against a wrongful death
lawsuit by families of four contractors killed in Iraq: Kenneth Starr.
Jeremy Scahill and Garrett Ordower
This year will be remembered both for massive immigrants rights marches and
for the Al Qaedization of immigrants.
Roberto Lovato
Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood's new president, leads an
organization searching for new national strategies, as a crucial vote in
South Dakota tests its grassroots clout.
Jennifer Baumgardner
Republicans are hoping voters will forget about Iraq, Bush and the GOP
Congress. But these are the issues that will drive Democrats and
independents to the polls.
Ari Berman
While Democrats on the national level dream of a landslide, in
California, the party is facing another electoral debacle.
Marc Cooper
Harold Ford has wooed and wowed white conservatives in Tennessee with a mash-up of star power, earthy eloquence and a contrarian right-wingery that has driven the GOP to take drast...
Bob Moser
The GOP's one-party rule has created a constitutional crisis that threatens America's future. By pulling the right lever on November 7, voters can throw this party out of office.
Jonathan Schell
Books & the Arts
We are now led by a false warrior who acts the simpleton, while playing to his version of what Middle America wants. To stop the madness, on November 7 voters must soundly repudiat...
Robert Scheer
It doesn't matter that Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette is a dreadful film, but it is alarming that the past is increasingly seen as a place in which the most important thin...
Mark Steel
Seeking to arouse America's compassion, five photojournalists have documented the suffering of terrorized refugees from Darfur in an exhibition that will travel to cities ar...
Suzanne Charlé
Two new books examine the diverse and ambitious alliances that led to the end of slavery in America.
Robin Blackburn
On this side of the window
A shower of chrysanthemum.
Outside, torrential rain.
Robert Sawyer
The history of twentieth-century France depicts a struggle between the republican ideal of a unitary state and the shifting concerns of a pluralistic society.
Sunil Khilnani
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