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Gabriel Thompson: Around the country, the temperature in immigrant communities is rising--and on Sunday, Washington, DC, will feel the heat.

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  • Attack of the Cheneys

    Attack of the Cheneys

    Matthew Duss : Dick Cheney

    They're baaaaack! Liz, Dick, Bill and the neocons plot to retake Washington.

  • Immigrants to Obama: It's Time

    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.

  • Payback for Prochoicers

    Payback for Prochoicers

    Katha Pollitt : Reproductive Rights

    It's our turn now--and here's our list.

  • A Right to Life for the Living

    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.

  • Twisting History in Texas

    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.

  • Who Speaks for Human Rights?

    Who Speaks for Human Rights?

    D.D. Guttenplan & Maria Margaronis : Human Rights

    A clash between a feminist activist and a former Guantánamo detainee divides the left.

  • Living for the City

    Samuel Zipp : Urban Planning

    There's more to the legend of Jane Jacobs than her showdown with Robert Moses. Subscribe

  • Californians March into the Heartland

    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.

  • Supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya demonstrate in front of police officers outside a meeting between government offic

    Hondurans' Great Awakening

    Dana Frank : Honduras

    Despite brutal repression, a bold resistance movement is defying the US-backed coup regime.

  • Noted.

    The Editors : Political Analysis

    John Nichols on Kucinich care; Nicholas Kusnetz on free trade with Colombia. Subscribe

  • Watching the Media Watchdogs

    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.

  • The Wrong Kind of Green

    The Wrong Kind of Green

    Johann Hari : Environment

    How conservation groups are bargaining away our future.

  • Conservation Groups & Corporate Cash: An Exchange

    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.

  • Lame Bill from a Lame Duck

    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.

  • Hey, Sailor...

    Hey, Sailor...

    JoAnn Wypijewski : Sex & Sexuality

    The closet persists, for Eric Massa and for countless others. Subscribe

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John Nichols
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» Altercation

Slacker Friday | On health insurance, food insecurity, poverty and the mail.
Eric Alterman

» Act Now!

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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» The Dreyfuss Report

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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