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September 10, 2007 Issue
Rebecca Solnit on reviving New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward, Christopher Ketcham on the localvores’ hundred-mile diet, Christine S…
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Editorial
The shaming and resignation of Senator Larry Craig proves that if you're going to be a hypocrite in American politics, it pays to be a straight hypocrite.
Timothy Patrick McCarthy
The Vice President and his minions need an education in the rudiments of government. Where are the strict constructionists when we need them?
Stanley I. Kutler
Just in time for Labor Day, a new report on the gap between the boss and the average worker is a gleefully malicious attack on the richest CEOs.
Barbara Ehrenreich
If the President is allowed to invoke the divine right of kings, the American Revolution will have come full circle.
Simon Prentis
If the American people continue to avert their eyes from the slow death of an abandoned city, their communities may soon be the next to fail.
Billy Sothern
A dialogue between the peace activist and The Nation's editor over Sheehan's plan to run for Congress against Representative Nancy Pelosi.
Katrina vanden Heuvel and Cindy Sheehan
Alberto Gonzales leaves office with the Justice Department tarnished, the rule of law debased and our civil liberties significantly eroded. It now falls to Congress--and the next P...
Aziz Huq
Mideast stability can't be promoted with arms any more than democracy can be imposed through the barrel of a gun.
William D. Hartung
Want to know the real differences between the candidates? Listen to what they say about the economy.
Katrina vanden Heuvel and Robert L. Borosage
Nobody knows if the current financial crisis could become the type of economic unraveling that makes history.
William Greider
The city lacks the resources to address its residents' urgent mental health needs.
Dr. Marc Siegel
The toxic neoliberal policies used to rebuild New Orleans have led to a spiraling social crisis.
The Editors
Column
A deceitful President, masking the chaos his $3 trillion war has unleashed with photo-ops from Iraq, now confronts cynical Democrats in Congress poised to write another check, will...
Robert Scheer
Thanks to some major-league grassroots organizing, workers who keep Baltimore's Camden Yards pristine are close to winning the right to a living wage.
Dave Zirin
By pumping more money into the economy to bail out hedge funds and subprime lenders, the Federal Reserve will only worsen inflation's bite into average Americans' paychecks.
Nicholas von Hoffman
The dark legacy of Alberto Gonzales--torture and a tainted judiciary system--will live on long after he leaves government.
Robert Scheer
Cindy Sheehan taught us that the only way to reach those who will go to the polls is by taking to the streets.
Gary Younge
Protesters in Quebec were treated like contestants in a reality show--put in a field and watched on TV monitors.
Naomi Klein
Despite what many in the media believe, the American public is interested in more than just right-wing punditry and celebrity gossip.
Eric Alterman
Feature
That a woman perceived of possessing great personal holiness turns out to be a person who suffered doubt in her experience with God deepens her mystery, rather than lessens it.
Richard Rodriguez and Mary Ambrose
Wary of government efforts to silence global warming research, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab and Goddard Space Flight Center are going to court to block new security rule...
Dave Lindorff
Copying the tactics of terrorists, neo-Nazi groups are targeting reformers, progressives and ethnic minorities.
Mark Ames and Alexander Zaitchik
A cable hit's unabashed attachment to filthy habits, bad parenting and horrendous gender roles shows how far we've come from the Sixties.
Anna McCarthy
America's favorite natural grocery chain is looking like just another greedy, antiunion corporation.
Matthew Blake
Bush's war on Iraq mirrors Napoleon's invasion of Egypt--two disastrous attempts to reshape the Middle East.
Juan Cole
A new way to fight global warming and corporate agriculture: Eat only locally grown food, and call yourself a localvore.
Christopher Ketcham
The Iowa straw poll offered a penetrating glimpse into the crisis facing the Republican party.
Marc Cooper
In response to a crime wave, police are imprisoning a record number of nonviolent offenders.
Robin Templeton
Two years ago, Katrina shed light on a harsh truth--we are all victims of a failed government.
Walter Mosley
Drastic changes in the educational system are leaving New Orleans's public schools behind.
Michael Tisserand
Community members and outside organizations are working together to rebuild the Lower Ninth Ward.
Rebecca Solnit
Books & the Arts
If the President is allowed to invoke the divine right of kings, the American Revolution will have come full circle.
Simon Prentis
If the American people continue to avert their eyes from the slow death of an abandoned city, their communities may soon be the next to fail.
Billy Sothern
A cable hit's unabashed attachment to filthy habits, bad parenting and horrendous gender roles shows how far we've come from the Sixties.
Anna McCarthy
A batch of new books on Hurricane Katrina investigate who is to blame for the tragedy.
Ari Kelman
Reviews of Kamp Katrina, The Monastery and Exiled.
Stuart Klawans
Robert Walser's writing--opaque and ethereal, provoking and digressive--is finally being introduced to American readers.
Christine Smallwood
In 1988 US officials helped disguise Saddam's chemical attack on Halabja. But when it came time to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq, they acted outraged.
Andrew Cockburn
Words charm me
make me sign
And ask that I
work
at any salary
to find them--
Words rush
Sony Labou Tansi
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