Mayor Lightfoot hires an investigator to tell her what she already knows about the Anjanette Young raid.
Tag: The Nation
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An audacious Riesling with just a hint of Mussolini
The Nation magazine has a wine club.
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Hopped up on fictions about crack, Clinton defends his 1994 crime bill
The former president relies on a super-predator stereotype of his own to justify his bill’s harsh sentences.
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Civil disobedience isn’t the right way to take down Donald Trump
The candidate’s political success requires a political response.
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Firm tied to Bruce Rauner profits from ‘court-sanctioned extortion’
While Illinois prisons are dangerously overcrowded, the GOP candidate for governor has made money from privatized criminal justice systems.
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Rick Perlstein crosses The Invisible Bridge between Nixon and Reagan
In a new book, Chicago historian and Nation writer Rick Perlstein continues to chart America’s rightward shift.
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Mayor Rahm: The mayor for some of us
Kari Lydersen’s new book explains how Emanuel earned the nickname “Mayor 1 Percent.”
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Before Obama’s enemies came down on him he was catching it from his friends
The case for President Obama as authoritarian didn’t begin with his enemies.
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Abortion was the most important election issue for women, but not really
We needed to consider abortion as we vetted our next president. It’s just that not everyone seems to understand why
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Obama’s acceptance speech
How much could Obama talk about poverty without risking his reelection?
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Poverty and segregation: birds of a feather
There’s no need to care about people who live elsewhere and attend different schools
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The second execution
The execution of Troy Davis presents a strong case against the death penalty—but what about arguments that are harder to make?
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Can we get a little help over here?
Today the care crisis is the problem that has no name.