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November 16, 2009 Issue

Alexander Cockburn on the right to remain naked, Dave Zirin on the big league blues, and an exchange on saving sex-trafficking victims.

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Editorial

Promises Kept and Broken, One Year Later

There are the things the president is doing that he said he would do. These actions can draw plenty of criticism, but not genuine shock. Then there are the things he is not ...

Afghanistan: Too Big to Fail?

Why do America's leaders always opt for "more" in counterinsurgency disasters rather than cutting their losses?

A Letter to Ahmadinejad

Nation writer Shane Bauer and his friends have been detained by Iran for almost 100 days. A fourth member of their party appeals directly to Iran's president for their relea...

Shon Meckfessel

Where’s the Birth Control?

Another complication in healthcare reform legislation has emerged: so far, it fails to require insurers to cover basic preventive services for women, including contraception.

Big League Blues

The NFL is only the highest-profile example of the economic crisis pervading the world of sports.

Noted.

States sound off for instant runoff voting; activists unite for the International Day of Climate Action; and we remember an American radical who fought the "good fight" against fas...

Deficit Hawk Hysteria

The time to pay down the deficit will come only after the economy recovers.

William Greider

Break Up the Banks

To reform the financial sector, we must break up "too big to fail" conglomerates and reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act.

Ten Things You Can Do to Reduce Incarceration

Come out of the closet about your drug use; hire a formerly incarcerated person; vote for politicians who are smart on crime.

Column

Keeping Afghanistan Safe from Democracy

The most idiotic thing being said about America's involvement in Afghanistan is that the best way to protect the 68,000 US troops there now is by putting an additional 40,000 in ha...

Working Women: Strength in Numbers

First feminism was dead because it was a "failure"; now it's dead because it was such a success.

The Right to Remain Naked?

Obsessions over sex have little to do with sexual behavior and everything to do with policing.

Alexander Cockburn

‘U.S. Will Order Pay Cuts at Firms With Bailout Aid’

Letters

Saving Sex-Trafficking Victims

Washington, D.C.

Our Readers and Noy Thrupkaew

Feature

The Swine Flu Vaccine Screw-up

Thanks to Big Pharma, your child may not get a flu shot as soon as they should.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Enrollment Abuse Allegations Plague University of Phoenix

Phoenix has allegedly broken the law by tying recruiters' pay to enrollment numbers, creating pressure to sign up unqualified students.

Problems for the Public Option

The final House health reform bill has a public option all right, but not the robust version progressives were hoping for.

Lindsay Beyerstein

Keeping Focus on Fighting Genital Mutilation

Is the campaign to fight female genital mutilation meeting new resistance not only in traditional societies but among Western anthropologists?

Barbara Crossette

On Israel’s ‘Domination and Its Intoxications’

Accepting the International Women's Media Foundation lifetime achievement award, Amira Hass decries the "official language" that allows her fellow Israelis to avoid reality.

Marriage in Maine in Dead Heat

On November 3, Mainers will decide whether to keep a law that made Maine the fifth state to legalize same-sex marriage. Polls predict a nail-biting finish.

Daniel Chandler

Honduras: Solution or Stall?

Roberto Micheletti has agreed to a plan to end the country's political impasse. But the coup government is already looking for loopholes.

The Heart of Wall Street

It's undeniable that pay czar Kenneth Feinberg has had an impact on compensation at bailed-out firms. But it's equally clear that the casino culture that created this mess remains ...

Why Obama’s Iran Policy Will Fail

Why Russia and China will sink Washington's Iran policy.

A New Generation Rises at J Street

The new progressive Jewish organization J Street has benefited from the blogosphere's interest. But will exposure turn into political mobilization?

Latvia’s Tiger Economy Loses Its Bite

The economic meltdown has Latvians reconsidering decades of neoliberal policies.

The Generation That Failed

Yugoslavs were unprepared for the surge of nationalism that followed Tito's communist rule.

Slavenka Drakulic

Books & the Arts

Deficit Hawk Hysteria

The time to pay down the deficit will come only after the economy recovers.

William Greider

The End of the Story?

Archie Brown's account of the high politics of communism's collapse is Kremlinology without the guesswork.

The Last Yugoslav: On Dusan Makavejev

When Yugoslavia disintegrated, so too did the film career of Dusan Makavejev.

Empire Falls: The Revolutions of 1989

The story of communism's rise and fall in Eastern Europe is a tale of two revolutions.

Ronald Grigor Suny

The Generation That Failed

Yugoslavs were unprepared for the surge of nationalism that followed Tito's communist rule.

Slavenka Drakulic

Identity Theft

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