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The Nation
The Nation is a weekly magazine published by the Nation Institute. First published in 1865, The Nation is headquartered in New York, N.Y. It is the oldest weekly magazine in the U.S. to be continually published. The Nation also has bureaus in London and South Africa.Self-described as "the flagship for the left," The Nation focuses on the topics of politics and culture. Contributors of note have included Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr., Gore Vidal, Christopher Hitchens, Hunter S. Thompson, Langston Hughes, Ralph Nader, Leon Trotsky, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Steinbeck, John Maynard Keynes and Naomi Klein. The Nation has broken such notable stories as the Valerie Plane leak scandal in 2003 and several articles about the Whitewater scandal in the 1990s. It was the first U.S. publication to report on what would become the Bay of Pigs invasion. The Nation has won 24 National Magazine Awards since 1971. Katrina vanden Heuvel is Editor and Publisher. Roane Carey is Managing Editor, John Palattella is Literary Editor, Betsy Reed is Executive Editor, and Richard Lingeman and Richard Kim are Senior Editors.
Articles from Vol. 248, No. 15, April 17
All Together Now
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In confusing times like these, the symptoms of change can be hard to interpret, and news, whether good or bad, can sometimes arrive in unfamiliar packaging. Does the much-lauded bipartisan agreement on Nicaragua, which renew"nonlethal" aid to the...
An Earful in Cincinnati: Eavesdropping Left and Right
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It is old news that Cincinnati is conservative. It is the town that raided Oh! Calcutta and took the local cable television company to task for carrying the Playboy channel. It is the home of Dr. Jack Willke, a national leader of the Right to Life...
As the Canal Turns
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George and Manuel go way back. When George ran the C.I.A., he met with Manuel, then a rising star in intelligence and drug-dealing circles. Years later both supported the contras. There was a falling out, but George and Manuel are still tied together...
Demilitarizing Europe: It Takes Two Not to Tango
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On the eve of the conventional arms talks in Vienna, British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe remarked that NATO had no intention of being drawn into a "competitive striptease" with Moscow. He was reacting to the Soviet proposal, released on March...
...Detention
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Civil disobedience is a strange phenomenon, probably not clearly understood by anyone, whether law breaker or enforcer. Civil disobedience puts stress on the system, pushing out into a twilight zone between the order necessary to civilization and...
From Meese to the U.N
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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee should take a good look at John Bolton, the nominee for Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, a position in which he would, among other things, act as a liaison between the U.S....
Heathers
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Of course, even fortune's favorites have their sorrows. The most glamorous woman I ever met once told me she had felt like an outsider in high school. It seemed impossible; yet she, like the rest of us, had suffered from the fear of looking ridiculous,...
Letter from Moscow; Counting the Votes and the Dead
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A wave of political mitingi, as they are called here, swept Moscow during the unusually mild days leading up to the March 26 elections for a new Congress of Peoples' Deputies. Impassioned discussions in musty auditoriums, typically beginning with...
Lie Down in Darkness
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Economically the African continent is in a state of virtual collapse. From the carly to mid-1980s twenty African nations had economies that remained stagnant or declined. Per capita gross domestic product in sub-Saharan Africa declined by 3.6 percent...
Metamorphosis
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Proving once again that a big star and an adaptation of a classic literary work that everyone has heard of but not necessarily read will sell the house out every time, Mikhail Baryshnikov appeared for a limited run in another sort of farce, a stage...
Preventive
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Filiberto Ojeda Rios is committed to Puerto Rican independence. He is also committed to the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City, charged with resisting arrest in 1985 in connection with his indictment as an alleged co-conspirator in...
Refigured Painting: The German Image 1960-88
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Yard upon yard of rapidly chilling hot art gluts the spaces of the Guggenheim Museum of Art under the title "Refigured Painting: The German Image 1960-88" (until April 23), and no one without a morbid interest in the death of art will have the slightest...
Scenes from the Inferno
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Back in January the soothsayers were agog with the news that capitalism had carried all before it, and that from Beijing to Brasilia the lines at lending libraries stretch round the block, citizens waiting for their turn at Milton Friedman, Von Hayek...
Surname Viet Given Name Nam
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One of the least pleasant characteristics of our era must surely be its transformation of global consciousness into a sales item. When Paul Simon needed fresh inspiration, for example, he simply went out and bought a back line of black South Africans....
The Ideology of No Ideology
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These are scenes from the inferno. We pass from them to the judicious sentiments of well-fed First World observers. Back on January 29, in a column titled "The End of Ideology," Anthony Lewis reproached Jesse Jackson for telling a crowd in Zambia...
The Papal Spiderweb - II: A Reverence for Fundamentalism
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Religious fundamentalists usually bring to mind well-known stereo types-Jim and Tammy Bakker pleading poverty from their multimillion- dollar home or Pat Robertson ordering a hurricane to retreat. Yet fundamentalism is not limited to the Bible Belt,...
What the Butler Saw
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Traditional farce is strictly bourgeois entertainment. It takes for ganted the audience's belief in the conventions of society and its ability to be titillated by errant behavior. Some small transgression of the rules sets off a complicated chain...
Write in Plain Sight
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Welcome to Montana, Mr. Rushdie: You'll be writing westerns now. Your hero,s name is Dusty Chaparral. Your new name is Purvis Larue. Oh, by the way, the wig looks great; I'd think about staying blond on a permanent basis even after the hair transplants...
