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  Who Speaks for Human Rights?

  D.D. Guttenplan & Maria Margaronis : Human Rights

  A clash between a feminist activist and a former Guantánamo detainee divides the left.

• Twisting History in Texas

  Eric Foner : History

  Texas's new curriculum teaches students about: women who adhere to traditional gender roles, the Confederacy, some parts of the Constitution, capitalism, the military and religion.

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  Hey, Sailor...

  JoAnn Wypijewski : Sex & Sexuality

  The closet persists, for Eric Massa and for countless others.

• A Right to Life for the Living

  Melissa Harris-Lacewell : Reproductive Rights

  African-American children face threats to their survival, and African-American women are confronted with challenges to their capacity to parent healthy children. But shaming misinformation campaigns do nothing to address these problems.

• Lame Bill from a Lame Duck

  Robert Scheer : U.S. Economy

  If you think healthcare reform has been an unsatisfying test of the government's ability to deal with our pressing problems, brace yourself for bigger disappointment in its attempt to bridle Wall Street.

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  Payback for Prochoicers

  Katha Pollitt : Reproductive Rights

  It's our turn now--and here's our list.

• Living for the City

  Samuel Zipp : Urban Planning

  There's more to the legend of Jane Jacobs than her showdown with Robert Moses.

• Californians March into the Heartland

  David Bacon : Labor Organizing & Activism

  Holding the budget hostage while state unemployment tops 12 percent, California growers and their political allies have slashed funding for schools and social services. The March for California's Future is challenging the stranglehold that big agriculture exerts over the state.

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  Hondurans' Great Awakening

  Dana Frank : Honduras

  Despite brutal repression, a bold resistance movement is defying the US-backed coup regime.

• Noted.

  The Editors : Political Analysis

  John Nichols on Kucinich care; Nicholas Kusnetz on free trade with Colombia.

• Watching the Media Watchdogs

  Greg Mitchell : Media Analysis

  Our media watchdogs require close watching. It's been an article of faith for Nation editors and readers since the founding of the magazine. I'm excited to join this tradition, and take it to new terrain at Media Fix, The Nation's first blog devoted to highlighting the best and worst of current media.

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  The Wrong Kind of Green

  Johann Hari : Environment

  How conservation groups are bargaining away our future.

• Conservation Groups & Corporate Cash: An Exchange

  Various Contributors & Johann Hari : Environmental Activism

  Johann Hari's piece "The Wrong Kind of Green" takes mainstream environmental groups to task for selling out their principles, often in exchange for money from the worst polluters. We invited a range of green groups mentioned in the article to respond to Hari's arguments in this special online forum.

• The Great White Whale in San Francisco Bay

  Lewis Lapham : Books, Literature, & Ideas

  How the "Lively Arts" became "The Media."

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  Coalition of the Shilling

  Nathan Hodge : Journalists & Journalism

  Nonpartisan think tanks are supporting journalism--but who's supporting the think tanks?

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