Immigrants to Obama: It's Time
Gabriel Thompson: Around the country, the temperature in immigrant communities is rising--and on Sunday, Washington, DC, will feel the heat.
Gabriel Thompson: Around the country, the temperature in immigrant communities is rising--and on Sunday, Washington, DC, will feel the heat.

The Editors:We support passage of the healthcare legislation, even as we urge the progressive community to begin the struggle immediately to correct its many flaws and improve its protections.
Brenda Wineapple:The woman who shot Mussolini.


Matthew Duss : Dick Cheney
They're baaaaack! Liz, Dick, Bill and the neocons plot to retake Washington.
Gabriel Thompson : Immigration to the US
Around the country, the temperature in immigrant communities is rising--and on Sunday, Washington, DC, will feel the heat.

Melissa Harris-Lacewell : Reproductive Rights
African-American children face threats to their survival, and African-American women are confronted with challenges to their capacity to parent healthy children. But shaming misinformation campaigns do nothing to address these problems.
Eric Foner : History
Texas's new curriculum teaches students about: women who adhere to traditional gender roles, the Confederacy, some parts of the Constitution, capitalism, the military and religion.

D.D. Guttenplan & Maria Margaronis : Human Rights
A clash between a feminist activist and a former Guantánamo detainee divides the left.
Samuel Zipp : Urban Planning
There's more to the legend of Jane Jacobs than her showdown with Robert Moses. 
David Bacon : Labor Organizing & Activism
Holding the budget hostage while state unemployment tops 12 percent, California growers and their political allies have slashed funding for schools and social services. The March for California's Future is challenging the stranglehold that big agriculture exerts over the state.

Dana Frank : Honduras
Despite brutal repression, a bold resistance movement is defying the US-backed coup regime.
The Editors : Political Analysis
John Nichols on Kucinich care; Nicholas Kusnetz on free trade with Colombia. 
Greg Mitchell : Media Analysis
Our media watchdogs require close watching. It's been an article of faith for Nation editors and readers since the founding of the magazine. I'm excited to join this tradition, and take it to new terrain at Media Fix, The Nation's first blog devoted to highlighting the best and worst of current media.

Johann Hari : Environment
How conservation groups are bargaining away our future.
Various Contributors & Johann Hari : Environmental Activism
Johann Hari's piece "The Wrong Kind of Green" takes mainstream environmental groups to task for selling out their principles, often in exchange for money from the worst polluters. We invited a range of green groups mentioned in the article to respond to Hari's arguments in this special online forum.
Robert Scheer : U.S. Economy
If you think healthcare reform has been an unsatisfying test of the government's ability to deal with our pressing problems, brace yourself for bigger disappointment in its attempt to bridle Wall Street.

JoAnn Wypijewski : Sex & Sexuality
The closet persists, for Eric Massa and for countless others. 

All The News That's Fit To Print?
Laura Flanders
Beck and Palin: "Violence is Not The Answer"
Ari Melber
The Femivore's Real Dilemma
Laura Flanders
As Vote Nears, Support for Reform Rises | New poll says health-care legislation is now backed by 46 percent, opposed by 42 percent.
John Nichols
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Slacker Friday | On health insurance, food insecurity, poverty and the mail.
Eric Alterman
March for America | Organizers of this Sunday's immigration reform rally in Washington, DC are hoping that lightening strikes twice.
Peter Rothberg
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GOP Peaceniks? | Some Republicans suggest that a "silent majority" of their party opposes nation-building and counterinsurgency in Afghanistan. So where are they?
Robert Dreyfuss
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Around The Nation | Welcoming our newest blog. Plus: Two must-see videos.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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Samuel Zipp : There's more to the legend of Jane Jacobs than her showdown with Robert Moses. 
: John Nichols on Kucinich care; Nicholas Kusnetz on free trade with Colombia. 











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Brenda Wineapple : "There is such a thing as a moral atmosphere." So said Violet Gibson, the woman who shot Mussolini.
Samuel Zipp : There's more to the legend of Jane Jacobs than her showdown with Robert Moses. 

Barry Schwabsky : The visual art of the Black Atlantic explores an ambivalence that exceeds double consciousness. 

Christine Smallwood : A conversation with the author of From Disgust to Humanity about various forms of opposition to gay equality.
Maureen Howard : In The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver turns a storybook into a dazzling manipulation of storytelling. 

Diego Gambetta : The past was one single catastrophe to the Baader-Meinhof Gang, and acts of violence the only perceived exit.
Barry Schwabsky : Charles Juliet's Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde; Matthew Spender's Arshile Gorky: Goats on the Roof: A Life in Letters and Documents; Zak Smith's We Did Porn: Memoir and Drawings. 

Scott Saul : At Berkeley in 1964, Mario Savio embodied the need to speak and act in the face of doubt.
William Deresiewicz : The axis of moral struggle, a stroke of salvation--these are the spiritual dimensions of Tolstoy's late fiction.


