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Will Better Consumer Protection Lead to a Credit Crunch for Women?
Will Better Consumer Protection Lead to a Credit Crunch for Women?
Credit card companies have targeted women for some of their worst deals. But as consumer advocates start policing the industry, some women risk seeing access to credit dry up.
In Recent Budget Deal, GOP Bleeds Environmental Protection
In Recent Budget Deal, GOP Bleeds Environmental Protection
The EPA kept its regulatory powers, but funding for climate science, wetlands protection, clean drinking water, nuclear waste disposal and more all got slashed.
Paul Ryan's 'Spinal Tap' Tour
Paul Ryan's 'Spinal Tap' Tour
He’s a Republican rock star in Washington. But the House Budget Committee chair’s tour of his home district is flopping as constituents say: "Hands Off Our Medicare!"
Hawks Want Libya Escalation—Will Obama Agree?
Hawks Want Libya Escalation—Will Obama Agree?
The death toll rises—so much for humanitarian interventionism.
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The Latin Boom writers failed to appreciate the work of fellow novelist Manuel Puig, who wrote about housewives and homosexuals.
Freedom to do just what he pleases defines the life and writing of Geoff Dyer.
The musical and political strands of Dmitri Shostakovich's life were intertwined like the braids of a noose.
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To mark the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl's disaster and the lessons it still holds for us today, The Nation has assembled a collection of articles from our archives.
The “Arab Spring” has received copious attention in the American media, but one of its crucial elements has been largely overlooked: the striking role of women in the protests sweeping the Arab world.
Declaring a global “orphan crisis,” US evangelicals ride to the rescue—with unintended results.
As abortion rights are eroded and fetuses are endowed with personhood, women are ending up in jail.
Enabled by the Citizens United decision, Koch Industries told thousands of employees last October how to vote—and even how to think.
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