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In these economic times, it's hard to imagine anyone who doesn't long for a dry martini. But Jason Wilson in the Washington Post today asserts that the "post-war era dry […]
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The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel on the needs of immigrants.
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Katrina vanden Heuvel says it is completely feasible to extend the right of health care to all Americans.
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Katrina vanden Heuvel with ideas for Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Katrina vanden Heuvel positions the Bush legacy in history and speculates about legal repercussions.
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Katrina vanden Heuvel advises the new president.
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Katrina vanden Heuvel on the renewal of anti-corporatism.
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Katrina vanden Heuvel gives the story behind the guide for free thinkers across the country.
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Katrina vanden Heuvel talks about The Nation as an institution in American journalism.
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Katrina vanden Heuvel explains where she sees reporting today.
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Katrina vanden Heuvel talks about the impact two cities have had on her life.
Today kicks off the 2009 Green Jobs Conference in Washington, DC, hosted by the Blue Green Alliance, a coalition of labor groups such as SEIU and the United Steel Workers […]
In the Sunday New York Times Magazine, Deborah Solomon interviewed philosopher J. D. Trout about empathy.During the course of a rather hostile interview, Trout invoked the image of the Roman […]
Duke University's Laura Brinn cautions that all the panicking that seems to be going on inside American corporations in response to the financial crisis—"canceling investments, scaling back projects, drawing on […]
The Cato Institute today explores the problem of "invisible" trade barriers. "Although they are part of a large and growing segment of world trade -- and a prominent feature in […]
I can already hear Andy Rooney complaining. In the continuing saga of the death of the newspaper, a recent thought experiment takes another punch at the New York Times. According […]
It's been a busy birthday week between Robert Burns (250 years young), Wilmer Valderrama (29), and the Iranian Revolution (30).But lest you forgot to mark your calendar amid all the […]
Having successfully built itself into a global center of the Hello Kitty trade, Hong Kong is setting its sights on a still greater conquest: the wine world. Dominated by the […]