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Reading Christopher
RICHARD LINGEMAN | With a dry, sharp, ironic voice -- Christopher Hitchens graced The Nation’s pages from 1978 to 2006.
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Regarding Christopher
KATHA POLLITT | Hitchens could be a moral bully and a black-and-white thinker, but as a vivid presence he will long be remembered.
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Christopher Hitchens: Some Memories
NORMAN BIRNBAUM | Hitchens was moved, in his choice of objects of animosity, by an unstable mixture of calculation and conviction.
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A Proud, Angry Poor
FRANCES FOX PIVEN | What the Occupy movement could do for poor people—and vice versa.
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Food Stamps: The Safety Net That Deserves Its Name
LIZZY RATNER | For all its flaws, the food stamp program helps one in seven Americans put food on the table. (Listen to the related podcast.)
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The Unfathomable Cuts in Housing Aid
PATRICK MARKEE | Ignoring the signs of dire need, the government is slashing its housing budget.
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Hard Knocks in the Bronx
KAI WRIGHT | Meet Ginnina Slowe, resident of the nation's poorest urban county, where poverty is expensive -- especially when you try to get out of it.
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Occupy Education
LIZA FEATHERSTONE | The Occupy movement takes on neoliberal education reform and the Bloomberg Department of Education.
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Nation Student Writing Contest
Student Winners

We're delighted to announce the winners of The Nation's sixth annual Student Writing Contest! Congratulations to Bryce Wilson Stucki, an undergraduate at Virginia Tech, and Hannah Moon, a 2011 graduate of Brooklyn College Academy in Brooklyn, New York and to our ten finalists! The winners each receive a cash award of $1,000; the finalists receive $200 each. All receive Nation subscriptions. This year we asked students to send us an original, unpublished, 800-word essay detailing what they think is the most important issue facing their generation. We received hundreds of submissions from high school and college students in forty-one states. Read the winners now.