November 12, 2007 | The Nation

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November 12, 2007

Cover: Cover by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels

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Sharon Lerner on childcare, Sharon Posner on values voters, Laila Lalami on Zakes Mda.


The Army Surgeon General and Joshua Kors discuss caring for wounded soldiers.


Will spec factory jobs be the next stage in US economic development?

A network of right-wing activists on college and high school campuses are targeting Muslims, Arabs and other Mideast experts, indifferent to the truth or decency of their charges.

Dennis Hastert's Obama problem, California burning, Commentary old and new.

The Christian right is embroiled in an internal culture war, pitting true believers against pragmatists looking for a candidate to satisfy the antitax and neoconservative wings of the GOP.




What a boondoggle 9/11 has been for the merchants of war.



In the struggle over the ownership of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, black history is on sale at bargain prices.

Consider the plight of the embattled liberal hawks and their lonely struggle to discredit the left.

What sets Michael Mukasey apart from the rest of the Bush crowd?



She alone can mobilize Pakistan's poor with promises of democracy, development and free, fair elections. But does she have the power to ward off US meddling and stop Pakistan's slide into chaos?

Some herald the election of an Indian-American Republican governor as a milestone, but the poor and black citizens of Louisiana aren't among them.

Undocumented immigrants who have survived for years living along San Diego's hillsides and canyons now find themselves left out of relief efforts in the Southern California fires.

David Horowitz's Islamofascism Awareness Week hits the already beleaguered campus.


If the Buddhist sangha and the military are the two dominant forces in the suffering society of Burma, could monks and dissident soldiers join forces to rise up against an oppressive regime?

All the warmongering that's fit to print.

As peace talks open between rebels and the government in Darfur, the question is: who speaks for whom?

President Bush's neglect of government-sponsored childcare programs has a steep price. Children are paying.



Books & the Arts




Ben Ratliff's not-quite biography of John Coltrane considers the jazz legend's enduring influence.


In South African writer Zakes Mda's fiction, the past hovers like a ghost--seductive and terrifying.


Gone's the imposter. And gone's
his gawky cross. Gone's
his tweaked legacy's hit list--Hooray!--
and gone's his waste of song.

3rd Party Article

What progressives should know about Cuba's most iconic revolutionary.

Increasing gentrification in America's midsized cities has spurred collective actions--and gained victories--among local communities fighting for their right to stay.

Lobbyists are powerful, influential and unelected folks who get Congress to do their bidding. What do youth need to know about these key players?