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The Nation Summer Reading List

The Nation Summer Reading List

Jennifer Egan, Tony Judt, Sontag remembered and more! Find out what Nation staffers are reading this summer and tell us what's on your list.

The Nation
Posted July 1, 2011

The Battle Over the Gaza Flotilla

The Battle Over the Gaza Flotilla

Sabotage and threats have damaged and delayed this year’s mission, but so far the activists are winning the media war.

Joseph Dana
Posted July 1, 2011

L'Affaire DSK: Presumption of Innocence Lost

L'Affaire DSK: Presumption of Innocence Lost

How the media frenzy obliterated the presumption of innocence and relentlessly impugned both Strauss-Kahn and his accuser in vulgar stereotypes.

Patricia J. Williams
Posted May 24, 2011

Books and the Arts

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Refutation of the Refutation: On Jeff Wall (Fine Art, Photography, Books and the Arts)

Has success spoiled the photography and the art of Jeff Wall?

Barry Schwabsky
Pakistan v. Pakistan: On Anatol Lieven (History, Books and the Arts, World)

For Anatol Lieven, Pakistan is a dangerous, fearsome country, a hard place to live and harder still to govern.

Fatima Bhutto
Unsilenced (Film, Books and the Arts)

The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Michael Winterbottom’s The Trip, Azazel Jacobs’s Terri, Eve Annenberg’s Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish.

Stuart Klawans
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News and Analysis

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Eric Schneiderman
New York's AG Takes on the Banks (Banking Predatory Lending, White-Collar Crime)

Law enforcement agencies have not undertaken a thorough investigation of the banking crisis. But Eric Schneiderman is digging into it.

William Greider
7 comments
Slutwalk protest in Boston
Talk the Talk, Walk the SlutWalk (Gender and Sexuality)

A bold, do-it-yourself protest movement has arrived. When was the last time feminism was this much fun?

Katha Pollitt
7 comments
Floods in Pakistan
Pakistan One Year After the Floods (Global Warming and Climate Change, World)

When extreme weather hits amid extreme poverty, escape becomes nearly impossible.

Christian Parenti
Protests in Greece
Greece in Debt, Eurozone in Crisis (Economic Policy, World)

The country is facing a convulsion unlike anything since the fall of the dictatorship in 1974.

Maria Margaronis
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How to Weaponize Your Personal Crisis (Gender and Sexuality)

Undocumented immigrants and gays and lesbians have forced a stark moral choice on their friends and neighbors: Are you with us, or against us?

Richard Kim
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Poll

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What impact will Jose Antonio Vargas's story have on the upcoming DREAM Act hearings?
None. Republicans in the Senate will block this legislation.
63%
Not much. Though Vargas's story might not affect the legislation, it humanizes the movement, thus driving popular support.
25%
Realizing that undocumented immigrants are professional, tax paying Americans will make some reconsider the DREAM Act.
8%
It will have a big impact. Jose Antonio Vargas gives the DREAM Act what it needs to become law.
4%
Total votes: 713
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