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The Obama Agenda: Five Big Ideas for 2011
The Obama Agenda: Five Big Ideas for 2011
Tuesday's State of the Union will be one of the most closely watched of Obama's presidency. Five prominent Democratic strategists tell The Nation how Obama can stand strong against a divided Congress.
Cuomo's Reform Moment
Cuomo's Reform Moment
With support from a new governor, could New York City's successful public financing law go statewide?
Iran Talks Not Over, Says Ahmadinejad
Iran Talks Not Over, Says Ahmadinejad
Despite huffing and puffing, there's still reason for optimism that the talks with Iran over its nuclear program can succeed.
Slide Show: Tunisia in Revolt
Slide Show: Tunisia in Revolt
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Books and the Arts
With a sharp eye for cultural patterns and a keen feel for the shape of a story, Claude Lévi-Strauss was a poet in the laboratory of anthropology.
Elizabeth Hardwick found New York's jittery impermanence and inchoate density to be an obstacle for the fiction writer.
The horrors of The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database arise through the cumulative weight of its abstract pieces of information.
News and Analysis
If an Institute of Medicine–appointed committee says yes, health insurance plans could be required to cover birth control free of charge for policyholders.
Some 200 activists, including Rep. Donna Edwards, jumped into the icy Potomac River to urge government action on global warming.
In Beck's twisted telling, it is activists like Piven—not the militias of the right—who threaten Americans' safety.
The city's Taxi and Limousine Commission plans to approve even more inaccessible taxis.
Inside the right's campaign to hijack our country's founding text—and how to fight back.
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