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The Children of Fallujah: The Medical Mystery at the Heart of the Iraq War

Three years after American soldiers besieged her city, Iraqi pediatrician Samira Alani began to see a problem in the maternity ward. Women were...

A Walk in the Woods During a Season of Uncertainty

London. Halloween—Secretive, indifferent, they erupt from the shadow world beneath our feet. They whisper risk; promise delight, delirium, or death....

Homeland Security Thinks Everything Looks Like Terrorism

A concerned law enforcement source provided The Nation with this Department of Homeland Security intelligence report about alleged violent threats asso­ciated...

A New Constitution: What the United States Can Learn From Chile

It is not often that a country gets to decide its destiny in one momentous election. I am thinking, of course, of...

A Woman’s Life

Buffalo, N.Y.—In memory, my Aunt Dolor is a big woman. Big hair, big sunglasses, big jewelry, big bold colors, with...

Decoding a Homeland Security Leak

As the presidential election draws near, so does the fear of political violence—and not just among progressives. A concerned law enforcement source provided...

In the UK, Climate Isn’t a Political Issue. That’s a Problem.

On the final day of the Oxford Citizens Assembly on Climate Change—a cold, gray British October Sunday almost a year ago—I witnessed...

Refugees Face Fire and Terror in Greece

Lesbos—For years, the squalor of overcrowded metal container homes and a sprawling tent city of flimsy plastic tarps amid open rivers of...

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