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Gun Control? Dream On. [Infographic]
KATHA POLLITT | As the country reels from two mass shootings in two weeks, meaningful gun restrictions feel as far away as ever.
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Can Mike Huckabee Reinvent Conservative Talk Radio?
BEN ADLER | Right-wingers turn to talk radio to stoke their anger. What will they make of the kinder, softer voice of staunch conservatism?
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Paul Ryan? Seriously?
JOHN NICHOLS | Could Romney really be foolish enough to pick a bailout-backing, budget-busting hypocrite?
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A People's Platform for the Democratic Party
THE EDITORS | Three cheers for the full embrace of LGBT rights! Here are six more suggested progressive planks.
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Guns and Mental Illness: Tragedies in Waiting
PATRICIA J. WILLIAMS | There is a certain kind of madness in peddling guns to Americans while dismantling our mental health system.
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Daylight Answers: On 'The Dark Knight Rises'
STUART KLAWANS | A massacre in Aurora and the cinema of social hallucination.
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The Uncertain Fate of Pennsylvania's Juvenile Lifers
MATT STROUD & LILIANA SEGURA | What will Pennsylvania do with prisoners like Sharon Wiggins, who's been locked up for more than forty years for a crime she committed at 17?
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Fatherland: On Hector Abad Faciolince
JORGE VOLPI | Oblivion re-creates the life of one of the many innocent victims of the Columbian conflict.
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UPCOMING EVENTS

The Nation at the 2012 National Conventions
RNC--August 27-30, 2012, Tampa, Florida
DNC--September 3-6, 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

The Nation will be reporting live from the upcoming Republican and Democratic National Conventions. Watch the Politics section at thenation.com for regular updates and analysis, including video, live tweets, blog posts, even illustrations from Nation reporters in Charlotte and Tampa.

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End polluter welfare.
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IN OUR ORBIT

Announcing Joan Baez on the Nation Cruise
December 9th to 16th, 2012

We are delighted to welcome Joan Baez as our special musical guest on this year's Nation Cruise! For the last 14 years, the Nation Cruise has presented America's top progressives and their ideas to Nation readers, while also helping raise money to support the publication of America's oldest weekly. Other guests on this year's cruise include Victor Navasky, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Chris Hayes, Dave Zirin, Gary Younge, John Nichols and Frances Fox Piven, among many others. Watch videos of past cruises and find out more!

THIS WEEK IN PRINT

Citizen Vidal

'President Romney'?

How to Launch a Mass Movement for Economic Justice

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STUDENT NATION

What Does Low-Cost Contraception Mean to Young Americans?
EXTRA CREDIT | The answers are eye-opening and help give some sense of the enormity of the impact the ACA will have in many people's lives.
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Ari Berman: Can Obama Win in North Carolina, Again?
FRANCIS REYNOLDS | When Obama won North Carolina in 2008, it was the first time that the state had gone "blue" in over 30 years. In the run up to the 2012 election, Obama has been trying to recreate the grassroots effort that won him the state, focusing on young and minority voters. With the state polling for Romney, can Obama once again pull an upset?
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Updated: Texas Executes Man With IQ of 61

The Upside of Ugly

Ohio Early Voting Cutbacks Disenfranchise Minority Voters

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Paul Ryan? Seriously?

Gun Control? Dream On.

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