April 18, 2011 Teaching Guide

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BROWSE GUIDES FROM RECENT YEARS

Feature

Naoto Kan and the End of ‘Japan Inc.’

Criticism of the government’s response to the catastrophe has obscured major political changes.

Tim Shorrock
The Dangerous US Game in Yemen

If President Saleh falls, the US will have lost a pliant partner in its “global war on terror.”
Jeremy Scahill
Jim Messina, Obama’s Enforcer

The president’s re-election campaign manager has alienated grassroots constituencies.
Ari Berman

Editorial

Put the Banksters on Trial

In the foreclosure scandal, the crooks are still calling the shots.
William Greider
Noted.

Roane Carey on The Nation’s victory against warrantless wiretapping, John Nichols on Wisconsin’s William Cronon and Riddhi Shah on India and Pakistan’s “cricket diplomacy.”
Various Contributors
Elizabeth Taylor: What Becomes a Legend Most

Remembering the icon, a pro at sex and survival.
JoAnn Wypijewski
Back at You, Glenn Beck

Overnight, Glenn Beck transformed me into an all-powerful agent of “economic terrorism”—when all I did was call for Americans to reject bad financial deals.
Stephen Lerner
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Column

Women Under the Budget Knife

Despite all the talk of shared sacrifice, the drastic slashes to public sector jobs and social programs will hurt women the most.
Katha Pollitt
Are We All Black Americans Now?

More and more Americans are learning what it feels like to be unsafe and unprotected. In other words, they’re learning what it’s like to be black.
Melissa Harris-Perry
Donald Trump Demands That Obama Show His Birth Certificate

Calvin Trillin

Books & the Arts

Elizabeth Taylor: What Becomes a Legend Most

Remembering the icon, a pro at sex and survival.
JoAnn Wypijewski
Naoto Kan and the End of ‘Japan Inc.’

Criticism of the government’s response to the catastrophe has obscured major political changes.

Tim Shorrock
When Nothing Happens: On David Bezmozgis

The Free World is a novel about lives suspended at a moment when everything is uncertain. It is about frustration. Unfortunately, it too is frustrating.
Aaron Thier
Turkey’s Transformation: On Islam, Nationalism and Modernity

Carter Vaughn Finley’s timely new history contends that Turkey’s development has been misunderstood as an upward march from Islamic empire to secular republic.
Marc Edward Hoffman
Looking at Maps

Elizabeth Arnold
Readjustments: On ‘Win Win,’ ‘The Adjustment Bureau’ and ‘My Perestroika’

Is it a good thing that film—not the audiovisual materials that exist everywhere but movies, projected in public spaces— has stopped being central to American life?
Stuart Klawans
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Letters

Letters

Our Readers and Stuart Klawans

Crossword

Puzzle No. 1626

From the April 3, 1976, issue. Be sure to vote in our contest to pick the new Nation puzzlemeister! And don’t give up too quickly, but the solutions to the contestants’ puzzles are now available!
Frank W. Lewis

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April 18, 2011 Teaching Guide

Feature

Criticism of the government’s response to the catastrophe has obscured major political changes.

If President Saleh falls, the US will have lost a pliant partner in its “global war on terror.”

The president’s re-election campaign manager has alienated grassroots constituencies.

Editorial

In the foreclosure scandal, the crooks are still calling the shots.

Roane Carey on The Nation’s victory against warrantless wiretapping, John Nichols on Wisconsin’s William Cronon and Riddhi Shah on India and Pakistan’s “cricket diplomacy.”

Remembering the icon, a pro at sex and survival.

Overnight, Glenn Beck transformed me into an all-powerful agent of “economic terrorism”—when all I did was call for Americans to reject bad financial deals.

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Column

Despite all the talk of shared sacrifice, the drastic slashes to public sector jobs and social programs will hurt women the most.

More and more Americans are learning what it feels like to be unsafe and unprotected. In other words, they’re learning what it’s like to be black.

Books & the Arts

Remembering the icon, a pro at sex and survival.

Criticism of the government’s response to the catastrophe has obscured major political changes.

The Free World is a novel about lives suspended at a moment when everything is uncertain. It is about frustration. Unfortunately, it too is frustrating.

Carter Vaughn Finley’s timely new history contends that Turkey’s development has been misunderstood as an upward march from Islamic empire to secular republic.

Is it a good thing that film—not the audiovisual materials that exist everywhere but movies, projected in public spaces— has stopped being central to American life?

The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.

Letters

Crossword

From the April 3, 1976, issue. Be sure to vote in our contest to pick the new Nation puzzlemeister! And don’t give up too quickly, but the solutions to the contestants’ puzzles are now available!