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The Nation Editors' Picks
December 16, 2005
15:15
Ari Kelman writes that faced with the challenge of rebuilding, New Orleans seems stuck in the mud--not just mired in the muck caking the city but also trapped by centuries of policy mistakes, especially the fantasy that it can be separated from its natural surroundings.
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15:15
Robert Pinsky writes that Anne Winters's The Displaced of Capital, winner of the 2005 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, is an extraordinary work that uses the city of New York to express our world and our time.
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December 15, 2005
16:08
Anne Winters's The Displaced of Capital, winner of the 2005 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, is a humane yet unsentimental re-imagining of the city of New York and the hidden connections that exist between us all. Robert Pinsky writes that Winters's verse is a symphony of praise and revulsion for poverty and opera, immigrants and tenements, cables and subway tunnels--the literal and figurative currents that connect people and things.
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16:08
The Editors write that the Bush Administration is squandering the opportunity to revive a dying city: Time is running out to reconstruct New Orleans levees, allow communities to rebuild neighborhoods and schools and repair environmental damage.
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16:08
Dennis Kucinich writes from the House of Representatives about the moral implications of today's vote to open the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve to oil drilling and its impact on the human rights of the Gwich'in people.
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16:08
The debate over the war in Iraq will be a central issue of the 2006 Congressional elections, and there is reason to believe antiwar candidates will prevail. The Editors write that the first step in this process is to encourage support for candidates who advocate ending this war.
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16:08
Bruce Shapiro notes that the refusal of the California governor, who built his fame feeding adolescent fantasies of killing, to grant clemency to a condemned killer who tried to dissuade youths from violence only contributes to the widening unease over the death penalty in America.
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16:08
Robert Scheer writes that the outsourcing of torture is a devilishly clever policy that allows the Bush Administration to systematically violate basic human rights of terror suspects while claiming it does not condone or practice torture.
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16:08
Eyal Press reviews three books that attempt to explain why Democrats seem to lose every political battle, while the widely loathed GOP continues to manipulate the system to its advantage. Plus, the Clinton biography The Survivor looks at the man who made Democrats feel like winners, yet whose legacy holds them back.
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16:08
Austin Kelly reviews How to be Idle and Bonjour Laziness, two cheeky tomes that challenge the striver culture with calls for political apathy, a ten-hour work week and the joy of napping.
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16:08
Claire Messud writes that John Banville's The Sea, is a painstaking narrative of memory, grief and many losses, remarkable for what it richly conveys about what it is is to be alive, while continuously experiencing loss.
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December 13, 2005
16:02
If the twentieth century has proved anything, it is that no nation, no constitutional system, is immune from the insidious downward spiral signified by torture. In this special issue, The Nation confronts the sweeping moral seriousness of the torture conspiracy and what it has done to America and its democratic institutions. The facts are known: Now is the time to hold the conspirators accountable.
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16:02
Tara McKelvey writes that in a military obsessed with saving face, justice for abused detainees is hard to come by. Military investigators, already hampered by combat conditions, routinely lose evidence, delay autopsies and indefinitely detain witnesses.
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16:02
Anthony Lewis writes that a moment of historical reckoning has come: It is time to appoint a special prosecutor to bring executors of abuse to justice.
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16:02
Jon Wiener recalls the mysteries of Eugene McCarthy: a conventional cold war liberal and fierce anti-Communist, who in the Vietnam era, was transformed into a true hero of the liberal antiwar movement.
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16:02
Karen J. Greenberg writes that while Bush has made torture an official policy, he has also made the practice so elusive that we still do not even know the exact number of detainees.
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16:02
Barry Schwabsky reviews Art Since 1900, a disjointed survey of contemporary art that seeks to be comprehensive but suffers from the bias and moral judgment of its disunited writers.
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16:02
Stuart Klawans reviews the well-crafted but ordinary The Chronicles of Narnia, the anti-Christmas but poignant The Ice Harvest and Memoirs of a Geisha, a faux-exotic film that hits theaters just in time for awards season.
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December 7, 2005
11:30
Jonathan Kozol writes that apartheid education is alive in America and rapidly increasing in hyper-segregated inner city schools. And though in our current political environment it's fashionable for policy-makers to declare integration a failure, effective programs across the country still survive--and deserve to thrive.
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11:30
Robert Scheer writes that a trove of new documents detailing the corruption and influence-peddling by Jack Abramoff, Ralph Reed and Tom DeLay are sweeping the high-minded prophets of the Republican revolution off their pedestals.
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